Stretching before and after every workout keeps muscles supple and helps elongate the lines of a ballerina's limbs.
As a player I was taught the importance of working four or five passes within your team and then stretching the play. That's something I believe in strongly as a coach.
Topologists are not concerned with angles and lengths, which are clearly altered by stretching the rubber sheet, but they do care about more fundamental properties.
I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
While we can all access articles and information in so many places now - across blogs, in newspapers, on video - there is something very powerful about putting it all together into an edited format in a single issue that has a narrative stretching across the themes.
I like everything in my room has to be in order. If there's a wrinkle in the comforter, I'm stretching it out. But this is only when it comes to my room. Outside of there, I'm not as intense.
One of the things I've found about SpongeBob's movement style is that, in addition to being animated and sort of stretching and squeezing, he's really based on the classic silent comedians, physical comedians.
Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists.
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.