They differentiated the distortions which the intended phrase suffered through the slip, into: interchanges of positions of words, interchanges of parts of words, perseverations, compoundings and substitutions.
The advantage that dream distortions may gain from such freedom of representation, is unmistakable.
When it happens that I commit a slip of the tongue, I could obviously make any one of an infinite number of slips, and in place of the one right word say any one of a thousand others, make innumerable distortions of the right word.
For this purpose he continues to repeat the first syllable, which is causable by volition, and strives in vain, by various distortions of countenance, to produce the next links, which are subject to association.
Can you tolerate, without serious irritation, anger, or hurt, being pushed to confront some of the pretenses or distortions or illusions you may have lived by?
The distortions are something on the order of Pig Latin or the languages which groups of children sometimes concoct.
Here the device is to begin with distortions of the Mohave words which, however, the taught fail or refuse to learn.
The distortions of this and the two following imperfect counts are analyzed in a separate discussion following the myth.
With its subjoined notes, this table probably is as explanatory of the processes followed in the distortions as is possible in the present lack of analytic understanding of the Mohave language.
In addition to the visual response, the distortions gave me definite feelings.
I take it then that these distortions seemed to connote meanings, rather than denote them.
Also the curious distortions of nettle stems swollen and curved by AEcidium, of maize stems and leaves attacked by Ustilago, and of the inflorescences of Capsella by Cystopus, etc.
Nor have experimenters succeeded in obtaining more than slight distortionsby fixing insects on the growing leaves in such positions that they could scratch the epidermis.
Many of these fungi cause distortions or pustules on leaves and other organs.
The distortionsof stems by constricting climbers, wire, etc.
Distortions of leaves are very common, and are sometimes teratological--i.
But if the figure MN is very near the mirror, so that new distortions are produced by the different distances of its different parts from the mirror, the most singular caricatures may be exhibited.
All these effects, which depend chiefly on the agility and skill of the performer, may be greatly increased by suitable distortions in his own features and figure.
It may happen that distortionsagain appear when the glasses are discarded.
If the spectacles are worn for several days, these distortions disappear.
Well," he answered slowly, "the monkey has got facial distortions due to a slight local paralysis of the inhibitory nerves supplied to the buccal and pharyngeal muscles, with a tendency to end in tetanus.
Mathematical reasoners are specially liable to this form of incipient mental disease, which, when combined with the facial distortions already alluded to in a previous section, is peculiarly apt to terminate in acute dementia.
Few words have suffered so manydistortions as liquorice.
The latter is greater and more serious; it is nobler, and it reaches heights of expression not attained by the grotesque and terrible distortions and the morbidly droll or melancholy outbursts of sentiment known to the Japanese.
Here is displayed a strange fantastic anatomy, only comparable to the acrobatic distortions to which the Japanese are so much addicted in their art.
But the question that finally emerges is: How do we free ourselves from the distortions of our faith?
He represents those in the church who see beneath the surface of things and behind the distortions of conventional and defensive Christianity.
The serious digestive disturbances which are caused by distortions and dilatation of the stomach resulting from cicatricial contraction of gastric ulcer are not considered in this article.
For six miles farther, violent distortions of the rails ceased to occur, the rate of decrease in intensity being most marked near the 23-mile point.
The remaining portion must be attributed to a bodily displacement of the earth's crust within the epicentral area--a displacement of which the fault-scarps and other distortions of that region furnish ample evidence.
The boundary of the epicentral area, to the growth of which thesedistortions contributed, is represented by the curve marked A in Fig.
They soon work themselves up to a pitch of frenzy; the distortions of their face and body are truly dreadful, and fill the mind with horror.
Now we may consider the distortions which are actually caused by clothes and bandages.
For facts of the kind above instanced, which, duly attended to, would prevent such distortions of moral theory, are facts which it needs no biological inquiries to learn, but which are daily thrust before the eyes of all.
The bones become soft and unable to support the body; variousdistortions appear; the extremities of the long bones are enlarged, while the limbs between the joints are very slender.
He had an excellent Hand at a Chimera, and dealt very much in Distortions and Grimaces: He would sometimes affright himself with the Phantoms that flowed from his Pencil.
With violent agitations and distortions of body they prophesied and claimed also the power to work miracles; even venturing to prophesy that Dr Ernes, a convert of theirs, should rise from the dead five months after burial.
I am to represent, in the Character of a fine Lady Dancing, all the Distortions which are frequently taken for Graces in Mien and Gesture.
Like ambition and the property instinct, the religious impulse may go wrong, and subject society to itsdistortions or tyranny.
The larva is naked, has sixteen feet, and is, in different genera, furnished with excrescences, and apparent distortions in various parts of the body.
The day was clear, and the shore-line of the other side of the sound, which grew nearer as we proceeded, was subject to strangedistortions of mirage.
The sun set over the sound with another of those curious distortions which had before proved ominous to us.
One sees many strangedistortions of sun and moon in this land, but never was a stranger seen than this.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distortions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
