The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.

`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

* In episode 4, season 1 of " Family Guy ", " Mind Over Murder ", Lois Griffin is rocking a sleeping and teething Stewie Griffin while her piano student plays a lullaby.

The ginga ( literally: rocking back and forth ; to swing ) is the fundamental movement in capoeira, important both for attack and defense purposes.

Nutation ( from Latin: nūtāre, to nod ) is a rocking, swaying, or nodding motion in the axis of rotation of a largely axially symmetric object, such as a gyroscope, planet, or bullet in flight, or as an intended behavior of a mechanism.

In hand vibrato, the player applies a gentle motion to one end of the pan flute ( usually the high end ) in much the same way as the violin vibrato is achieved by rocking the hand from the wrist.

A rocking, straight or running stitch is commonly used and these stitches can be purely functional or decorative and elaborate.

Another option is called a rocking stitch, where the quilter has one hand, usually with a finger wearing a thimble, on top of the quilt, while the other hand is located beneath the piece to push the needle back up.

It is conjectured that this kicking style was developed in this way to allow the fighter to use a hand to hold onto something for balance on a rocking ship's deck, and that the kicks and slaps were used on land to avoid the legal penalties for using a closed fist, which was considered a deadly weapon under the law.

It is typically brought on by the rocking motion of the craft or movement while immersed in water.

Alice is also known for punishing Dennis ' misbehavior by having him sit in the corner in a rocking chair for timeout, although a couple of times she has instituted tougher discipinary measures such as spanking, where Dennis is shown crying or grumbling about the adversity.

The cradle is rocking.

This tends to happen when the subject believes he or she is in a particular position, whereas his or her actual body is either rocking in a cradle actively, or still lying down.

Of these 50 there is a longhorn, a giant pink rocking horse, and a magic dragon.

Hundred is so named because Henry Church would sit on a rocking chair on his porch near the train station.

The poppet valve is fundamentally different from slide and oscillating valves ; instead of sliding or rocking over a seat to uncover a port, the poppet valve lifts from the seat with a movement perpendicular to the port.

The man – and the camera following him from behind – survey its contents: a dog and a cat share a basket, a caged parrot and a goldfish in its bowl sit atop a small table ; the walls are bare apart from a mirror and an unframed picture of “ the face of God the Father ” pinned to the wall ; there is a couch with a pillow, some blankets and a rug on it, a rocking chair with a “ curiously carved headrest ” and there is a window with a tattered roller blind with full-length net curtains to either side.

Later that night, he is thrown from his bunk by the violent rocking of the ship.

In either case pitching ( rocking horse-like motion ) is reduced.

It is not one of their hotter numbers ; it refers to " the rolling rocking rhythm of the sea ".

The next morning at Christmas, the family has gathered in the charred living room, happily opening their presents ; Stewie gets his plutonium, Peter gets a new VCR and his own copy of Kiss Saves Santa, Brian gets at what first appears to be a wine bottle, but actually turns out to be a book of some type, and Lois, as Peter would put it, is as cheerful as ever, despite still being heavily sedated, sitting limply in a rocking chair and drooling.

" The illumination grew brighter and brighter, the roaring louder, I experienced a rocking sensation and then felt myself slipping out of my body, entirely enveloped in a halo of light … I felt the point of consciousness that was myself growing wider, surrounded by waves of light … I was now all consciousness, without any outline, without any idea of a corporeal appendage, without any feeling or sensation coming from the senses, immersed in a sea of light simultaneously conscious and aware of every point, spread out, as it were, in all directions without any barrier or material obstruction … bathed in light and in a state of exaltation and happiness impossible to describe.

The illumination grew brighter and brighter, the roaring louder, I experienced a rocking sensation and then felt myself slipping out of my body, entirely enveloped in a halo of light.

The playground features a merry-go-round, monkey bars, slides, rocking riding toys, a two story wooden play structure and digging toys.

This clearly parallels the story Alicia tells earlier in the story about sitting in a rocking chair at her grandmother's house, waiting for her parents, not knowing that they had died in a car accident.

" At the very end of the story, the mother passes away and her son is the father of a little girl, rocking her to sleep ; singing the same song that his mother used to sing to him.

At this point, the infamous bridge has arrived, and that's when there are full color flash-ins of Debbie rocking out and singing the bridge, as the intense part of the story arrives.

In the Upledger method of craniosacral therapy, a ten-step protocol serves as a general guideline, which includes ( 1 ) analyzing the base ( existing ) cranial rhythm, ( 2 ) creating a still point in that rhythm at the base of the skull, ( 3 ) rocking the sacrum, ( 4 ) lengthening the spine in the lumbar-sacral region, ( 5 ) addressing the pelvic, respiratory and thoracic diaphragms, ( 6 ) releasing the hyoid bone in the throat, and ( 7-10 ) addressing each one of the cranial bones.

Julian Mincham describes the music as serene, a " gentle, rocking, almost cradle-like rhythm creating a perfect atmosphere of peaceful contemplation ".

The song kicks into a more rocking rhythm with dueling guitars, and rapid-fire angry-sounding lyrics sung by Steven Tyler.

Although the lyrics mention rocking and rolling, the music that the classics are supposed to step aside for is always referred to as " rhythm and blues " ( R & B ).

And if we understand the rocking as an erotic symbol we can also see how well it serves as the symbol of impending tragedy.

They stood there, just the two of them, in the rocking, shattering blast.

There are ghostly scenes in which the little boy on his rocking horse rocks madly toward the climax that will magically give him the name of the winning horse.

I have been so weary of the excessive rocking of the vessel, and the almost intolerable smell after the rain, that I have done little more than lounge on the bed for several days.

And when Alfred was forced into his bed, Tessie left the front porch of the store and sat at home, rocking in her rocker in the living room, staring out the window -- the rose still in her hair.

Touching the baby gently or rocking the incubator slightly will almost always get the baby to start breathing again, which increases the heart rate.

In this campaign, taking notice of the legal problems of the IBM campaign, Sony paid building owners for the rights to paint on their buildings " a collection of dizzy-eyed urban kids playing with the PSP as if it were a skateboard, a paddle or a rocking horse.

Steam just above atmospheric pressure ( all that the boiler could stand ) was introduced into the lower half of the cylinder beneath the piston during the gravity-induced upstroke ; the steam was then condensed by a jet of cold water injected into the steam space to produce a partial vacuum ; the pressure differential between the atmosphere and the vacuum on either side of the piston displaced it downwards into the cylinder, raising the opposite end of a rocking beam to which was attached a gang of gravity-actuated reciprocating force pumps housed in the mineshaft.

At first the phases were controlled by hand, but within ten years an escapement mechanism had been devised worked by a vertical plug tree suspended from the rocking beam which rendered the engine self-acting.

The atoms in a CH < sub > 2 </ sub > group, commonly found in organic compounds, can vibrate in six different ways: symmetric and antisymmetric stretching, scissoring, rocking, wagging and twisting, as shown below.

Another important invention, one which Watt was most proud of, was the Parallel motion which was essential in double-acting engines as it produced the straight line motion required for the cylinder rod and pump, from the connected rocking beam, whose end moves in a circular arc.

Who can tell the sensations which I experienced when I found myself rocking, as it were, upon my horse, and with him moving to and fro like a child in a cradle, with the most imminent danger around me .” He noted that as the earthquake retreated, " the air was filled with an extremely disagreeable sulphurous odor.

In the extreme case, they are reduced to the piston crown, support for the piston rings, and just enough of the piston skirt remaining to leave two lands so as to stop the piston rocking in the bore.

The phrase " rocking and rolling " originally described the movement of a ship on the ocean, but was used by the early twentieth century, both to describe the spiritual fervor of black church rituals and as a sexual analogy.

The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when " urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat " was becoming more popular.