It's a picture of a mind unhinged, a distorted mirror of Hamlet's "antic disposition".
In some ways the Confederacy appears as a distorted mirror image of the North.
Argentina, which often resembles the rest of the world seen through a distorted mirror, likes to do things differently.
Brahms's elegant Waltz in D minor (Op. 39, No. 9) melted without pause into the refined aberrations of Mr. Rihm's "Brahmsliebewaltzer," a distorted mirror image.
'Since the dawn of humanity, people have tried to ease sadness and break conventions by showing human beings their personality in a distorted mirror,' read the blurb.
Bobbitt's central premise is that today's Islamic terrorist network, which he calls Al Qaeda for short, is like a distorted mirror image of the post-Westphalian market-state: decentralized, privatized, outsourced and in some measure divorced from territorial sovereignty.
And she draws interesting, wildly smart parallels between the cultural-political chaos of New York and Italy in the '70s, with Little Italy serving as a distorted mirror of defunct Old World values.
Astral doubles, Madame Blavatsky and a story about a tragic 19th-century romance, a distorted mirror of J.'s romance with V., all come into play, as J. circles back to his starting point, which was about loss and nostalgia and attempted redemption within a morally shattered universe.
The tale consists of little more than the man's ascension and the orchestration of a public reading, yet in Schnitzler's hands it becomes a distorted mirror onto the less-talked-about side of literary life from workshopping to self-promotion, favor trading, and reviews.
This week, the fund's executive board heard the first formal proposal on quota reform since Rodrigo de Rato, the IMF Managing Director, unveiled his medium-term strategy to revamp the organisation last September.The IMF's quotas are a distorted mirror of today's economy, partly because they must do three things at once.
Many of them are human-sized and possessed of human speech, their behavior a distorted mirror held up to that of Homo sapiens.
