All 9 Uses of
distort
in
Travels with Charley
- My memories were distorted by twenty-five intervening years.
Part 1 *distorted = altered in an untrue way
- There in the quiet, with the wind flicking tree branches and distorting the water's mirror, I cooked improbable dinners in my disposable aluminum pans, made coffee so rich and sturdy it would float a nail, and, sitting on my own back doorsteps, could finally come to think about what I had seen and try to arrange some pattern of thought to accommodate the teeming crowds of my seeing and hearing.†
Part 2
- I thought too much driving had distorted my vision or addled my judgment, for the dark earth below seemed to move and pulse and breathe.†
Part 3
- I walked quickly down the hill to iron out the distortion.†
Part 3
- Sometimes the view of change is distorted by a change in oneself.†
Part 3
- Now returning, as changed to my friend as my town was to me, I distorted his picture, muddied his memory.†
Part 3
- Then there are others where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing, or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high-colored magical confusion takes permanent hold.†
Part 4
- It had the same draw as a five-legged calf or a two-headed fetus at a sideshow, a distortion of normal life we have always found so interesting that we will pay to see it, perhaps to prove to ourselves that we have the proper number of legs or heads.†
Part 4
- And suddenly I knew something was wrong and distorted and out of drawing.†
Part 4
Definition:
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(distort) to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way