| Houdini exerted a preternatural control over his body, wriggling out of straitjackets by dislocating his shoulders. |
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| I'd just sit in the little cuticle and chew my nails down to the roots, not caring if they put me in one of those straitjackets. |
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| Yet they're all built from the wiggle-room found inside the tightest of genre straitjackets. |
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| They can step outside of the conformist straitjackets of their own culture and become hip, become cool. |
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| We have to be careful, as you would understand, putting straitjackets on either judges or counsel. |
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| The Commission, for its part, has generally not sought to impose any procedural straitjackets. |
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| Beyond that, Wilson's dictatorial approach straitjackets the singers, who function as little more than slaves to the director's concept. |
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| The poisoned workers were taken from the plant in straitjackets, hallucinating, convulsing and screaming. |
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| I told Paul C. that there were no straitjackets or handcuffs involved in that performance, at all. |
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| We've got the government ordering us to zip up our mental straitjackets in public. |
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| It's as if defensive coordinators have wiggled out of straitjackets and finally can turn the pages of their playbooks again. |
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| This left us a legacy of legal straitjackets which have, in their way, contributed to the climate of sleaze, greed and corruption which has lumbered us with costly tribunals. |
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| She was known for choosing the most difficult assignments, caring for the terminally ill and even the deranged patients that often were brought in straitjackets. |
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| By placing women in ideological straitjackets, both the feminist and traditionalist women's groups have made themselves largely irrelevant to today's women. |
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| I think he played a more rockish and uptempo set to fit in better with Los Straitjackets. |
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| Why would Freud and Durkheim impose tautologous spirals of circularity on their disciples and put ill-fitted straitjackets on their clients? |
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