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Tom completely distorted all that I had said.
The whole system is distorted.
Mary has a distorted self image and doesn't believe that she's beautiful.
His face is distorted by pain.
Some newspapers distorted the news.
He has distorted my speech.
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That is a distorted picture of life.
He could never fit in with our distorted viewpoint. because he's honest and sincere and good.
I'm afraid that my sister has a somewhat distorted sense of humour.
The man was spiritually distorted through shock.
His neck is broken, crippled and distorted. lame and sick from the bullets your brother fired into me.
Somehow you've acquired a distorted viewpoint.
But before you hear it all distorted and blown out of proportion, before those Hollywood columnists get their hands on it, maybe you; d like to hear the facts, the whole truth.
You are distorted, Rakel.
Distorted, me?
Before evening will your mouth be distorted into a last, unfinished yawn?
His life is distorted with a single driving wish.
They sat in their black robes. and they distorted, they perverted, they destroyed justice and law in Germany.
They distorted, they perverted. they destroyed justice and law in Germany.
Is it not possible that your view of the administration. might be distorted? No.
He's twisted and distorted everything.
He could never fit in with our distorted viewpoint, because he's honest and sincere and good.
I'm afraid that my sister has a somewhat distorted sense of humor.
Not only has he a distorted sense of humor but his entire personality is distorted.
I'm not sure I Iike your attitude. You've got a distorted viewpoint.
I have impressions of her, but they're distorted. like memories all clouded over.
But before you hear it all distorted and blown out of proportion, before those Hollywood columnists get their hands on it, maybe you'd like to hear the facts. The whole truth.
Even your ideas seem distorted.
The mental condition of people who feel persecuted becomes distorted. and nothing they do is understandable to the normal mind.
Thank you. I'm afraid that my sister has a somewhat distorted sense of humor.
They sat in their black robes and they distorted, they perverted, they destroyed justice and law in Germany.
They distorted, they perverted, they destroyed justice and law in Germany.
I distorted a fact in the interest of self-preservation for my holy cause.
No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information.
Helix force fields must have distorted the coordinates.
If you'd have seen his face, distorted by crying, he even tried suicide in front of me.
I saw right away that this was someone perverse, with a distorted perception.
Roadside houses and trees that has already gone past still appear to him at the edge of his forward field of view but distorted and red-shifted.
But when two nearby galaxies collide like a bullet through a swarm of bees the stars hardly collide at all. But the shapes of the galaxies can be severely distorted.
News and current affairs
IMF accounting frameworks, rather than providing useful signals to the market, provide distorted information that exacerbates a troubled country's problems.
Second, Iraq is a diverse country, distorted by over thirty years of Saddam's tyranny, and with no plausible and coherent alternative government in sight.
The skewed incentives distorted our economy and our society.
But because Rumsfeld wanted to prove a point about transforming American military strategy, and his neo-conservative advisors had ideological blinders that distorted their appraisal of Iraqi reality, Shinseki's advice was rejected.
So the only explanation for Greece's poor export performance must be that the Greek economy has remained so distorted that it has not responded to changing price signals.
These are grotesquely distorted priorities.
The strength of the dollar has similarly distorted investment decisions, and the same kinds of exaggerated swings in exchange rates in emerging markets have contributed to the boom-bust cycles in Asia and Latin America in the past five years.
But if production entails environmental damage for which companies do not pay, incentives are distorted; companies may turn a profit, but they function inefficiently in economic terms.
Many broad policy issues are distorted when viewed through a lens that focuses only on domestic inequality and ignores global inequality.
But a high standard of fidelity to the truth is needed in the media; otherwise, debates become too distorted for citizens to evaluate correctly their meaning.
And domestic politics is being distorted by the inability of centrist politicians to address voters' concerns about the eurozone's economic policies and its democratic deficit.
Their ill-conceived interventions - notably the US-backed mortgage underwriters Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as the Community Reinvestment Act - distorted market incentives.
Distorted interest rates, official guarantees, and tax subsidies encourage continued investment in real estate, when what the economy needs is investment in, say, technology and clean energy.
But the picture Russia presented to others and to itself was massively distorted.
The world's judgments about Iran's motives and actions should not be distorted by Iranian pride.
Unfortunately, the political debate is distorted by misleading statistics that grossly understate these gains.
How long must capital wait for the day when, free of distorted incentives, the engine of growth is fueled and humming again?
These measures helped China establish modern, advanced industries, but resources were misallocated and incentives distorted.
Agriculture has always presented the greatest challenge to free-trade doctrine and its promise of empowering the poor, for it is one of the most distorted areas of global trade.
Meanwhile, savers are being repressed, asset prices distorted, and incentives to maintain or even increase leverage enhanced.
The global financial system remains distorted and dangerous.
Unfortunately, one must wonder to what extent these ratings are distorted by the eurozone countries' political power.
But the debate is now being distorted by a secondary struggle between the EU's large and small countries, with results that are sometimes paradoxical.
America's distorted political system gives the rich everything they want in the form of tax cuts, while slashing programs for the poor.