Example sentences for: distorts

How can you use “distorts” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On the positive side, "Faludi's reportorial and literary skills unfold with a breathtaking confidence and beauty" (Elizabeth Gleick, Time ). More often, though, critics call the book "didactic and highly simplistic" (Kakutani, the New York Times ). Judith Shulevitz finds a flaw at the center of Faludi's thesis: She "assumes something that's no longer true: that America is in the throes of downsizing and loss"; and her focus on the marginalized and downsized distorts her view: "she should have said she was talking about class; she claimed to be talking about gender" (the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here to listen to an interview with Faludi.)

  • Restricting LSC attorneys in advising their clients and in presenting arguments and analyses to the courts distorts the legal system by altering the traditional role of the attorneys in much the same way broadcast systems or student publication networks were changed in the limited forum cases we have cited.

  • Journalist David Halberstam and former Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who are characters in Shining Lie , complain that the Vietnam film distorts the nonfiction book it is based on.

  • Courts must consider only those questions of statutory validity that are presented by litigants, and if the Government chooses not to subsidize the presentation of some such questions, that in no way "distorts" the courts' role.

  • Multicultural prejudice distorts its presentation, stripping America's history of its heroic high points.


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