But the other cases in which the interfering tendency merely distorts the original, without bringing itself to full expression--how can one guess the interfering meaning from the distortion?
Its relation to the intention which it distorts is to be discussed later.
A contented mind sees something good in every thing, and in every wind sees a sign of fair weather; but a discontented spirit distorts and misconstrues all things, resolutely refusing to see aught but ill in its surroundings.
As the morning fog renders the most familiar objects uncouth in appearance, so it distorts the imagination and disorders the mental faculties, so that truth can not be distinguished from falsehood or friendship from enmity.
It has been frequently copied, often very ineffectively, for so subtle is the art that the slightest deviation hopelessly distortsand vulgarizes what Reynolds has done supremely, once and for ever.
Party entirelydistorts the judgment, and destroys the taste.
On this basis, if the newspaper fakes its news, if it distorts facts, or if it suppresses them, it is playing false with its subscribers.
I no longer have the illusion which distorts and conceals, that fervor, that sort of blind and unreasoning bravery which tosses you from one hour to the next, and from day to day.
This particular article deals with the conception of thought as a stream of consciousness, which intellect distorts by framing into concepts.
Both are moments in the total process of man's attempt to come to terms with the universe, and too great emphasis on either distorts and falsifies the situation in which we find ourselves on this planet.
Here I am only concerned to distinguish an idealism which truly interprets facts, even if it throws their spiritual meaning into high relief, from a merely imaginative treatment which perverts and distorts them.
It is harmony; it is proportion; it is the protest of balanced completeness against all that partiality, which, by exaggerating something that is true, distorts the proportion and simplicity of truth.
Well, that is malice that distorts and rends your heart as often as you meet that man on the street or even pass by his door.
Hence the inference will be legitimate to stigmatize as impious a mode of investigation which misstates and distorts historical facts, shaking at the very foundation both the church and the primacy.
Who is there who does not see that Janus stamps himself as a falsifier of history, whenever he mutilates and distorts the contents of authorities quoted by him?
A large irregular shaped mass, a, grows from the base of the right lobe, and distorts the prostatic canal and vesical orifice.
The third lobe, a a, projecting from below, distorts the prostatic canal upwards and to the right side.
Whatever interferes with individual enterprise interferes with the action of the laws of value, wages, and interest, and distorts the very structure of society.
It makes prices and wages abnormal and distorts the form of the industrial mechanism.
The fifteen-and twenty-cent magazine is a menace to American life in that its fiction grossly distorts the facts of life.
The worst enemy of the American Public is the newspaper that for political or business reasons distorts news.
Commemorated is he not by a bust of bronze that distorts the facts in that the garments are not seedy and unkempt, the figure stooping, the cheek hollow and the eye pitifully expressive of an empty stomach?
Have chemists told you why the prism disarranges or distorts sunlight to produce the abnormal hues that men assume compose elementary rays of light?
Luxury meanwhile distorts our whole attitude to our fellows, and in every effort to excel and shine we wrong the labouring millions.
There is in it no trace of the dogmatic individualism that distorts the speculations of Godwin and clogs the more practical thinking of Paine.
An overemphasis upon self-denial sacrifices unnecessarily the sweetness and richness of life, stunts it, distorts it, robs it of its natural fruition.
Bergson maintains that in so doing it limits and distorts these facts and he says that if we are looking for speculative knowledge we must go back to direct knowledge, or, as he calls it, intuition.
A counter-attraction distorts the symmetry of the system.
It is not ordinary daylight which illuminates Balzac's dreamland, but some fantastic combination of Parisian lamps, which tinges all the actors with an unearthly glare, and distorts their features into extravagant forms.
That is misleading and it distorts the whole situation.
But he is not one and hence I can only repeat that it distorts the whole situation.
Inspection of this resultant field shows how the armature current distorts the field without altering the total number of lines per pole.
This distorts the main field so that the lines of force are crowded toward the forward part of the pole face as shown.
But it is not that character is lacking in the race; it is that school distorts the body and weakens the spirit.
But if the compliment praises us for qualities we do not possess, or distorts or exaggerates our true attributes, we think with disgust: What a coarse creature!
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