All 3 Uses of
distort
in
The Fountainhead
- He knew that the shape would be changed, torn, distorted.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- It would have been easy, if she had seen a man distorting his mouth to bite off sound, closing his fists and twisting them in defense against himself.†
Chpt 2.14
- It was a pale, distorted victory; a reluctant compromise that consisted of omitting columns and pediments, allowing a few stretches of wall to remain naked, apologizing for a shape—good through accident—by finishing it off with an edge of simplified Grecian volutes.†
Chpt 3.6
Definition:
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(distort) to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way