Such, for example, have been the one-sided ascetic ideals of Stoicism or Puritanism, which in their attempt to give order and form to life, crush and distort a considerable portion of it.
But, we alter space, make space along patterns we choose, and so distort it that the natural speed of radiation is enormously greater.
The Galactians know nothing of the twin-ray beyond its action, and that it is an electro-magnetic phenomenon, though they have been able to distort it by using a sheet of pure energy.
We distort space and change the velocity characteristics; in other words, we distort the rate of motion through distance characteristics of normal space.
On so huge a sphere as their native world seems to be, the gravity would be so intense as to distort space.
Writers like Isidore might use them, but they did not hesitate to mangle and distort them.
That wouldn't be too bad, but when I get up to about one per cent of the velocity I want to use, I can't calculate a force that will operate to distort them back into recognizable wave-forms.
At only a very small fraction of that speed the tracers I am following are so badly distorted that they disappear altogether, and I have to distort them backwards.
Warp, to--To distort a surface in order to vary its angle of incidence.
Such a wire must be a little slack, or, as illustrated above, it will distort the framework.
Anything more than that lowers the factor of safety, throws various parts of the framework into undue compression, pulls the fittings into the wood, and will, in the end, distort the whole framework of the aeroplane.
For that reason it should not be turned by seizing it with pliers, as that may distort it and spoil the bore within it.
The more clearly we obtain a view of the subject in its simplicity, the less will we be disposed to conceal, exaggerate, or distort its contemporary aspects, either of facts or morals.
In putting forward a statement has the author been led to distort it unconsciously by the circumstance that he was answering a question?
Most children distort everything by inexactitude of this kind, and it is only after a hard struggle that they ever attain to a scrupulous accuracy--that is, learn to master their imagination.
We know what are the cases in which men in general are inclined to alter or distort facts.
May God put to confusion these godless sophists who so wickedly distort God's Word to their own most vain dreams!
Therefore it is evident that they wickedly distort Christ's word to a monastic life.
It is most foolish to distort the name of punishment to these frigid satisfactions, and not to refer them to those horrible terrors of conscience of which David says, Ps.
But the adversaries distort the meaning by sophistically transferring the universal particle to only one part: "All things will be clean to those having given alms.
And yet they have certain sayings, maxims, as it were, of the old writers, which they distort in interpreting.
Therefore it is pure slander when they distort Scripture to their own opinions.
Now, since he has actually expressed this thought in apparently other words, the adversariesdistort his words to the injury of the doctrine of grace and faith, although Daniel meant most especially to include faith.
Certain it is that the action of alcohol on the brain does more to distort and pervert a man's relationship with his environment than any other action which alcohol has on the body.
It can countenance no attempt that seeks to distort their features or to stultify the truths which they instill.
Is it the part of a friend to distort dear Ernest's kindliness and gayety into ill morals; to pervert his love of poetry and plays into an unworthy attachment to actors and--oh!
The light is a very pure white one, does not distort or falsify colors, and effects a great saving of gas.
Again: "Did ever any history-painter widen or distort his figures as they are removed from the centre of his picture?
Leaders and agitators, subjugated by this higher idea, take hold of it, distort it and create a sect which distorts it afresh, and then propagates it amongst the masses, who carry the process of deformation still further.
To present objects with their exact geometrical forms would be todistort nature and render it unrecognisable.
Let us not distort this truth of progression, and its correlative truth of the Christian's abiding imperfection.
So mysteriously can the subtle "flesh," in the believing receiver of the Gospel, becloud or distort the holy import of the thing received.
Unscrupulous ambition taught men in that age who sought to win or regain the Crown's favour, to falsify all law and fact in behalf of prerogative, as unblushingly as our modern demagogues exaggerate and distort the liberties of the people.
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.
But fashion and the absence of models cramp and distort his work.
The faithful pastor or evangelist is most sorely assailed, every device of Satan being used to distort the one all-important message of Grace into something that is not vital.
