All 4 Uses of
distort
in
The House of Mirth
- The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the thing worked for it distorts all the relations of life.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- It was the strangest part of Lily's strange experience, the hearing of these names, the seeing the fragmentary and distorted image of the world she had lived in reflected in the mirror of the working-girls' minds.†
Chpt 2.10
- As she led the way westward past a long line of areas which, through the distortion of their paintless rails, revealed with increasing candour the DISJECTA MEMBRA of bygone dinners, Lily felt that Rosedale was taking contemptuous note of the neighbourhood; and before the doorstep at which she finally paused he looked up with an air of incredulous disgust.†
Chpt 2.10
- She was exhausted by the reaction of a night without sleep, coming after many nights of rest artificially obtained; and in the distorting light of fatigue the future stretched out before her grey, interminable and desolate.†
Chpt 2.11
Definition:
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(distort) to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way