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    1. distort the shapes of passing cars,


    2. Distort the body tissues long-term, and pain and


    3. Trapped emotions distort and block the flow of this


    4. then was it strong enough to distort the orbits of


    5. Don't let your inner emotions distort your mental view of your of your life and the love that is around you


    6. Negative energy can thus distort the chakras


    7. This normally leads to arguments, debates and many new versions of the Bible that distort the truth and diverge from the original texts


    8. ‘The field is so strong that is has the ability to distort time


    9. Observing an object up front and close or from too great a distance, for that matter, will oftentimes obscure or distort an individual‘s visual perception


    10. Addendum to the above: Higher rates of lower-paying jobs; that is to say, higher rates of ―under-employment‖ will oftentimes distort unemployment statistics in the same (inverse) manner statistics report higher achievement levels in ―formerly‖ under performing schools, especially those located in predominately urban areas, in proportion to their lowering of academic standards

    11. It’s a way to label and to distort what is really going on


    12. This could distort the normal processing of information that came to the brain from the five senses


    13. They could distort


    14. He helps us distort the truth of the


    15. appear, they obscure and distort and you see the false as real


    16. they distort and destroy reality


    17. As he stood in front of me, I watched his expression distort


    18. of the few inanimate shapes in my room would blur and distort


    19. Metaphysicist Taimni says that ‘everything in manifestation must disturb the harmony and distort (or perhaps suppress) the perfection of the Whole


    20. annoys you, because the things that usually annoy you will distort through the

    21. character, distort and color them, in obedience to


    22. distort and corrupt the economy as on Lilliput


    23. into an area, they distort the area of space, and the resulting


    24. Was it intentional or due to ignorance that people through history were led into believing that God is separate, that heaven is not here, that eternity is not now? When you awaken you will understand holy scriptures and easily see where the authors distort the truth and mislead the people


    25. upon him and distort what he has said and done, so that it appears to be evil;


    26. And thus do they pervert and distort the Scriptures, making them the guide to slavish details of the daily life and an authority in things nonspiritual instead of appealing to the sacred writings as the repository of the moral wisdom, religious inspiration, and the spiritual teaching of the God-knowing men of other generations


    27. In a study by April Fallon and Paul Rozin (1985), for example, both men and women were found to distort their own


    28. “Why then bother hoping? Why bother being good and trying to bring about good, if people and life do not respond or distort and exploit any benevolence to sour and spoil them?” he asks himself and others


    29. WHO WOULD DISTORT AND MISUSE IT


    30. to pull and distort the body of the suspected witch in every

    31. Hallucinogens distort your perception of reality, causing you to have intense real feelings from unreal perceptions of experiences


    32. But there are always people who alter and distort the mes-


    33. The middle ground—the intuitive barren lands—were the home of those who held such restrictive beliefs as to blunt or distort what was otherwise possible to know and sense


    34. In addition, your corpse in there was partially covered with a sheet and a blanket, so the body temperature would have been affected by these factors enough to distort the time element


    35. distort the original intent of those scriptures


    36. Any attempt to hide or distort the information given to my commission will attract charges of outrage to and obstruction of the Congress


    37. The constant air temperature meant no uneven waves of air density to distort their brilliance


    38. Thin lips distort into a half-smile


    39. could not but distort truth sought by the mind


    40. Dahms walked over to the communicator and flipped off the switch to the viewer and flipped on a switch, which would distort the voice of Rogae X, then she dialed the number

    41. connections can often and easily act to interfere or distort the


    42. Connections can often and easily act to interfere or distort the


    43. ‘’I suspected so! Only an anti-matter rocket engine would have the power to propel a ship up to a notable fraction of the speed of light, short of some kind of system that would distort space and time


    44. Have we got all this modernization to kill the innocents and to spread bloodshed and to distort humanity into pieces…? We should rule on their minds and in hearts and not by our supreme power but with our moral supports and economic supports


    45. Our beliefs have many biases which can easily distort reality


    46. They have found that it will distort and warp their thinking


    47. and satanic malpractices – primarily obscene in effect; distort the truth completely


    48. If energy prices are particularly high in one country, such as Japan, then this can distort the mean average value, rendering comparisons difficult


    49. “How the glaring shadow of my life came to distort my vision!” he continued in lament


    50. A force that tends to distort the body








































    1. That ball was also the lens of the camera and it distorted his image as he leaned close


    2. Could my distorted mind be playing tricks on me? Was the ultimate nature of my lunacy to take shape in a world of imagined friends, of odd and sundry voices rattling off the walls of my empty head?


    3. It was one of those bottles one could hardly read because the lettering was so distorted


    4. The words 'Darceenian Flame' curved in purple lettering, distorted on a blazing ball like the banding of Kortrax centered in the deep blue mainsail of her foremast


    5. Through mottled panes of small, distorted glass


    6. Tissues that are continually being distorted by a


    7. Their helmets bore badges over their foreheads with a symbol on it like a distorted ‘T’ or maybe the head of one of the axes Alan’s Knume cherub uses


    8. Non-‐truth is actual y just a distorted view of


    9. the same way that light was blurred and distorted by its mysterious


    10. The voice in the ear piece is slightly distorted

    11. He grasped Jack’s distorted leg by the ankle with


    12. went through the crowd—some distorted version of the wave at a baseball game


    13. The pickups weren’t on the actuators as they should be with a roller-pitched hand-held, that caused the spectra to vary with pitch, something that sounded distorted to the modern ear, but old time loggers seem to like that distortion


    14. The victim is abnormally thin with a distorted view


    15. Even Luther did not stay away from the distorted


    16. There is a way to liberate yourselves from the distorted and contorted emotional and spiritual chains that bind you


    17. That is the way to liberate yourselves from the distorted and contorted emotional and spiritual chains that bind you


    18. That’s ugly stuff, but it’s best not to ignore those screw ups as if they didn’t exist (although I wish they didn’t), painting myself a gratifying but distorted rosy picture of my own glorious history


    19. Further away it looked like the houses were underwater as the haze distorted the lines of the houses


    20. Rikke’s eyes poured over the distorted emblem, searching it

    21. The viral message showed a man wearing white Elastics, speaking words of promise for a better future for the Alatarian citizens in a distorted voice


    22. You may have a distorted view of reality that you cannot correct because you are not present to see it as it is


    23. However, the distorted way in which she sees things causes the unhappiness she experiences, not the dogs


    24. If the mirror is dirty or distorted, the image you see of your face will not be true


    25. Noah stood frozen, his face distorted with terror beyond any Dane had ever witnessed


    26. Hence, our action towards other people is directed by this distorted perception of our ego


    27. The space around him distorted and then formed a vortex


    28. Soon that would become too distorted to view so he instructed Harvo to give a constant update


    29. But now her colleague’s image was shifting about in a distorted way as if from some kind of interference, and his voice similarly until she could no longer understand a word


    30. They both stared at the distorted remains of the four ladders that led down to the deck below

    31. He had no way to measure the extent of the wave, although even the worse- case simulation models showed it being distorted and held back from spreading unencumbered, not being able to form its own expanding sphere


    32. ” his laugh distorted over the comms system's speaker


    33. And increasingly communication became erratic: the image losing clarity, pixellating to just noise and then resolving the surrounding star field that was now strangely distorted, similar to intense gravity waves except the graviton count was normal


    34. At this point his vision became so distorted he couldn't make out what was happening to him, but the sound of drilling was unmistakable – and the stark realisation that he was in the presence of a sentient lifeform


    35. " The words were distorted by his hand on his jaw


    36. Her dreams that night were distorted, filled with Jeff


    37. when the gospel was distorted by an elder as some


    38. Wearing too much mascara on the bottom can make small eyes appear distorted and out of proportion


    39. The station commander boomed over the comm speaker at such a volume his voice distorted


    40. Khan’s image was distorted as salty teardrops dripped onto the photograph

    41. We can only hope the line in the Matrix we’ve chosen wasn’t also distorted by the


    42. We already saw that Hitler and Nazi Germany came into being based on distorted history and what happened as a result? Sixty-six million human beings died


    43. Assumptions by modern revisionists seeking to belie historical traditions, avidly supported by special interests with political axes to grind, however discredited such assumptions oftentimes are, may further promote muddled-headed thinking by ultimately winning the battle of ideas, however questionable their premises, by perpetuating falsehoods that, on the surface, oftentimes appear plausible to variable, ―discerning‖ young minds armed with partial knowledge, but sufficient enough to receive distorted impressions at their face value, rendering many vulnerable to questionable or unlikely propositions that bear little or no resemblance to the truth; advanced by (political and social) deconstructionists alienated from their (hated) customs, offering in exchange, contemporary standards predicated on historical fallacies, deception, inflicted reasoning and ignominious viewpoints


    44. What is it about the Hollywood Culture that seems to effectively absorb all traces of their former selves, transforming them into Kafkaesque-like characters whose abnormal, dreamlike perceptions manufacture a distorted sense of reality?


    45. I believe that this proselytizing approach to ―teaching‖ and its apparent transparency, however, hasn‘t been lost on a number of critical-minded students who are beginning to take these distorted 113


    46. To this purpose, a number of terrorist organizations are being routinely supported by hostile (Arab) Nations sharing a common, distorted primitive worldview of Western Values encouraged, in part, by soft-headed internationalists, self-congratulatory appeasers, and useful idiots who continue to provide a moral and intellectual base of support to the ideological opponents of Freedom


    47. That figure is absolute nonsense and it bothers me when facts are distorted for it is important to future generations to read the truth


    48. Then a wrinkle distorted his snout as a sudden thought clouded his mind


    49. Dean‘s distorted reasoning and outrageous assumption makes me shudder to think that the former Democratic front runner might have been this (_) close to the presidency had this loose cannon not self-destructed during the Iowa Primary


    50. Such an easy victory over a slight enemy gave him an enormously distorted view of war, one he carried until the end of his life














































    1. His jowls and the bags under his eyes hung low, distorting all the features on his face


    2. At full magnification he could see space was distorting, stars had a kind of shimmering effect as if seen through water


    3. Now the missile, so close to the distorting field, moved only imperceptibly in their time frame


    4. The First Amendment provides extraordinary advantages for many reporters and journalists in the news media pre-disposed, for a variety of reasons, to distorting (the) news in whatever manner considered appropriate in advancing either a social or political agenda that they may (otherwise) support


    5. The rub lies, however, in far-fetched attempts aimed at distorting the commensurable accomplishments of relatively minor historical figures, many of whom do not properly merit their assigned place in history alongside the unquestionable giants of their generation


    6. I watched the smoke pouring from the lorry's tyres in a kind of dread fascination, imagining the look of horror that must be distorting the driver's face as he slammed his foot on the brakes


    7. authenticity of distorting the things the same way


    8. There came a heavy sound of distorting metal as the van’s nose


    9. separation and relation is due to the distorting and corrupting in-


    10. He'd wanted to get her mind off her troubles, and here she was distorting what he meant—exaggerating, putting words in his mouth

    11. Evil is only the misadaptation of immaturity or the disruptive and distorting influence of ignorance


    12. While that didn’t make her a friend of the Iranian regime, she had enough credibility with the international public and medias to be able to pass on Iranian official views without distorting them the way too many Western reporters did


    13. Perhaps it was, but it turns out the saboteur was the parent company distorting the truth


    14. The mention in that info of the distorting influence of Philippines’ President Quezon on his strategy, influence that apparently resulted in some disastrous decisions on his part, had embarrassed him into discreetly revising his command relationship with Quezon, making MacArthur cut the local political factor out of his strategic and tactical planning


    15. As he continued with how the pile of dried horse dung allowed him to formulate Terence’s methodology in distorting the actual time of death, their reactions were muted but suggested they were quite amused with his abilities and his theorizing


    16. "She is not the one," she said distorting the circle as she stood up


    17. There appeared to be eggshells near the magma, but heat waves rose off of it, distorting the view


    18. ‘You have a bad habit of distorting everything I say, Rajdeep


    19. Distorting nature’s insurance policy, sex—by fear and guilt—is the basic, underlying cause of our children’s rape, just as much as it is the grounds for lowering the verbalized charge from rape to just abuse or molestation


    20. Distorting nature’s insurance policy, sex—by fear and guilt—is the underlying cause of our children’s rape, just as much as it’s the grounds for lowering the verbalized charge from awful rape to mild abuse or molestation

    21. doing all this they are in fact only distorting the righteous and true ac-


    22. Krishn's teachings, we cannot help distorting them into the shape of our


    23. When the mind is racing, there are too many thought waves distorting the image; therefore, practicing visualization while you are in SMART mode is the key to success


    24. random debris floating in the waters of that sea, distorting it


    25. But all these worlds are comformed by our economic irrationality and obsession: the world is money based, though money is both unnecessary and the very system which is distorting and twisting the other logics – whose principle entelechy is health, not growth for growth's sake and accumulation for accumulation's obsession


    26. Suddenly the room became bright distorting my vision I hear the sound of the door creak open and in walks the woman we had met earlier she was carrying a knife in her hand


    27. the effect of the illusion is profound, distorting as it does the natural hostility between hunter and hunted,


    28. (N): I finally figured that I had to call myself something, so I settled on "spiritual teacher," as the least distorting description


    29. " He opened his eyes and stared at the hand that had touched me, a look of utter horror distorting his handsome features


    30. However, since they are formed by cruder vibrations of Energy-Plasma, all information structures of their fragmented Self-Consciousness are affected by the same distorting effect as the one that influences any three-dimensional holographic image

    31. But it can be “out-of-limit” only in one case — when it doesn’t belong to this Reality, when it simply potentially exists for us as FLAKS-Information, which is not subject to any distorting interaction with karmo-quanta of our Reality


    32. One of the reasons we have not been able to understand our main objective is due to the puppets that go out of their way to take the heart out from the Law by distorting the writings of the apostle Paul


    33. by distorting the gods presence in physics, becoming the reason why the cause of the future Earth will be


    34. Because the circle is forever reducing that reducing which is inherently part of the form of the sphere becomes a tool in distorting of space in the sphere and is eventually removing all forms of space from within the centre of the sphere


    35. tried to repress the grin distorting her mouth, but her joy was too


    36. production and quality of sperm in men and distorting the normal menstrual


    37. and cramps for women, distorting the menstrual hormone production and


    38. reproductive organs resulting in distorting the normal menstrual cycle in


    39. fatigue and distorting the normal process of the reproductive organs in


    40. cycle, resulting in distorting the normal reproductive process for fertilization

    41. deficiency, distorting the normal process of conception


    42. fluctuation, causing low sperm quality in men and distorting the menstrual


    43. choose your foods carefully without distorting the yin and yang qi in your


    44. Just like a fish swimming in its own water, in its own normality is not aware that it is swimming in something called water: our perceptions are filtered through the reflective medium of our tool-brain: distorting the outer actuality of the universe into a crude symbolical representation called reality


    45. The end result is that those who are most successful at distorting the truth to their advantage get the most advantage-power-wealth out of this and vice versa


    46. Because legally, half-legally, illegally… lying, cheating, conning, distorting, snookering, finagling any kind of advantage possible: is how all businesses make their profit


    47. Our thinking is distorting the true nature of all things


    48. Shutting down, stunting, distorting and destroying their growth potential


    49. For those of us sensitive enough, he is distorting the Ethers to do so


    50. � Education can teach that lie and make it a demeaning and distorting meaning perspective

















    1. as the magnet distorts the picture on the TV screen


    2. oftentimes distorts a child‘s (emotional) sense of proportion; conditioned as many of them are by undisciplined, emotionally challenged environments that fail to provide spiritual sustenance and practical guidance to that child


    3. are of the mind and the mind obscures and distorts


    4. exaggerates, it distorts, it overlooks


    5. rajas distorts, sattva harmonizes


    6. I try to sit up again, but my movement distorts my hearing, so I lie still


    7. An object distorts the attentional field in the sense of the force analogy, but the attentional field values do not represent forces of attraction


    8. Behold, the LORD lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants


    9. Physically Distorts: And there is clear evidence that space distorts


    10. hear it often, but in fact, it distorts the situation it attempts to

    11. This bias often distorts the meanings and struggles of the Bible, and the


    12. (I could add that all news, not just war news, necessarily distorts objective reality to some degree


    13. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things


    14. he talks about himself but camouflages and even distorts facts


    15. The money illusion distorts our sense of value: overvaluing the joys of ownership, and undervaluing the Love of life


    16. This Consumer Debt Disorder distorts the ability to perceive currency's essential function as a placeholder for the exchange of mutual surplus, by turning it into fictions capable of producing weapons of mass scarcity


    17. question hung in the air like thick fog that distorts shapes and colors


    18. are beginning to understand how the manipulative media distorts the facts


    19. And if one makes mistakes, and if the other person turns out to have been unworthy of being treated frankly and goes away and distorts, it can't be helped,--one just takes the risk


    20. In other words, as a result of a resonance that appears in one of you, for example, in response to the high-frequency dynamics of some SFUURMM-Forms that structure my FLUU-VVU-doubles, each of you “unpacks” the VVU-Information (received from me) from TEC of his own Stereo-Form with the help of the Formo-Creators of lower-qualitative NUU-VVU-Configurations that involve (into the process of “unfolding-folding”) SFUURMM-Forms of lower-qualitative UU-VVU-conglomerates from your individual ODS, which distorts very much in your Self-Consciousness the initial meaning of the Information generated by my FLUU-VVU-doubles

    21. needs, that distorts those visions contributes to impair the resulting creations


    22. 27 [Translator’s note: only the books in Russian should be put to any tests, because, in terms of energy and information, any translation distorts greatly the original source


    23. Of course, the moment of Inertia (that is, the dynamics of the quantum-holographous frequency-rotation Shift, the specific influence of which depends on the qualitative Direction in which the Shift is made) slightly distorts (“mixes”) its initial typical VVU-Information, while an individual SFUURMM-Form of “the personality” (projected by the Formo-Creators of the brain from an individual ODS) add to the VVU-Information its own subjective imprint (klekses it energy-informationally)


    24. At a certain moment, somebody inertially attracts in this very way one of innumerable flaks Ideas to the creative dynamics of one’s FCA and FDR from the lowest-qualitative flakglaass Realities, transfers their Formo-images through many subjective refocusings from higher-qualitative NUU-VVU-Configurations into lower-qualitative ones (that is, repeatedly distorts it), reprojects (in the form of a picture, a drawing, then a model and a variant of the ready product) into the Reality of our type, and, eventually, gets many things that surround us and, according to our distorted Conceptions, as though also “happen to be there”


    25. anything, it deforms the feature and distorts the relative position of


    26. Vaginosis is an infectious disease which distorts the balance of bacteria in


    27. the risk of abdominal pain and cramps in women and distorts the function of


    28. and cramps and distorts the normal process of menstrual cycle


    29. It is this intrinsic nature of our selective awareness which distorts the dynamic balance of our senses and perceptions automatically


    30. If you over-balance your inner awareness, if you become overly reflective about anything: it distorts your awareness of actuality

    31. And what mostly distorts the balanced biofeedback of your inner awareness is when parts of it split off and are no longer integrated into the whole


    32. If a person is not constantly questioning what they perceive inside themselves and outside themselves: then normality-reality becomes a dominant unthinking, unfeeling reflex: then Abstraction eventually distorts Actuality


    33. The feeling of power, or control; distorts awareness and inflates the ego


    34. As mentioned earlier, negativity clouds perception and subjectively rearranges, distorts, and blots out the perceived facts


    35. � That distorts our view of ourselves, and with that distortion our unanswered needs grow and need more and more feeding, more attention


    36. Such a "No" denies us real access to the becoming self because we wind up conforming to that "No" in situations where "No" distorts the situation and our response to it


    37. Record keeping, both of trade results and of research, is critical, because this bias often distorts memory—you simply will not remember contradictory information, or it will be somehow fuzzy and obscured


    38. Common sense tells us that this approach heavily distorts the facts of life because market prices are considerably less important to some security holders and some companies than they are to others


    39. Violence only weakens this force, retards, and distorts it, and puts in its place another activity, which is not only not useful, but even harmful for the forward movement of humanity


    40. Everything Depends on the Strength of the Consciousness of Christian Truths in Each Individual Man—The Leading Men of Modern Times, however, do not Think it Necessary to Preach or Practice the Truths of Christianity, but Regard the Modification of the External Conditions of Existence within the Limit Imposed by Governments as Sufficient to Reform the Life of Humanity—On this Scientific Theory of Hypocrisy, which has Replaced the Hypocrisy of Religion, Men of the Wealthy Classes Base their Justification of their Position—Through this Hypocrisy they can Enjoy the Exclusive Privileges of their Position by Force and Fraud, and Still Pretend to be Christians to One Another and be Easy in their Minds—This Hypocrisy Allows Men who Preach Christianity to Take Part in Institutions Based on Violence—No External Reformation of Life will Render it Less Miserable—Its Misery the Result of Disunion Caused by Following Lies, not the Truth—Union only Possible in Truth—Hypocrisy Hinders this Union, since Hypocrites Conceal from themselves and Others the Truth they Know—Hypocrisy Turns all Reforms of Life to Evil—Hypocrisy Distorts the Idea of Good and Evil, and so Stands in the Way of the Progress of Men toward Perfection—Undisguised Criminals and Malefactors do Less Harm than those who Live by Legalized Violence, Disguised by Hypocrisy—All Men Feel the Iniquity of our Life, and would Long Ago have Transformed it if it had not been Dissimulated by Hypocrisy—But Seem to have Reached the Extreme Limits of Hypocrisy, and we Need only Make an Effort of Conscience to Awaken as from a Nightmare to a Different Reality

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    Synonyms for "distort"

    deform distort strain falsify garble warp color colour tinge twine twist contort wring wrench bend pervert deceive mislead misinterpret melt buckle collapse

    "distort" definitions

    make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story


    form into a spiral shape


    twist and press out of shape


    affect as in thought or feeling


    alter the shape of (something) by stress