Sentence examples for a distorting lens from inspiring English sources

Conferences are a distorting lens of political fortune.

But passion is a distorting lens that makes it hard to perceive the shape of things.

And then there's the O factor, always a distorting lens on reality.

Johnson's "moral clarity" becomes a distorting lens even in matters of pure chess.

Filtered through a distorting lens, his view of Kailash feels surreal; the mood depressed.

It was, rather, the double-take-inducing peculiarity of his proportions, which mimic the effect of a distorting lens.

Even individual truths will be seen through the distorting lens of a false world view".

Sometimes we see the world extruded and distorted, not through Bacon's eye, or through the medium of paint, but through the distorting lens of a glass of booze.

Plath told her mother that "What I've done is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalising to add colour – it's a potboiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown… I've tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar".

Whether these people are called avatars, saints, prophets, they are people who have attained a quality of humanness that removes the distorting lens of human egoism, charges them with a moral magnetism, and illuminates them with a humane wisdom that ripples through the centuries, or may even create a new civilization.

That's partly because Mr. Reygadas wants his viewers to work it out themselves and partly because he throws up roadblocks, including a distorting camera lens, abruptly inserted images of British boys playing rugby (Mr. Reygadas attended school in Britain) and a timeline that's as piecemeal as memory.