The phrase "a mutilation of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant alteration or damage to something, often implying that the original form has been severely compromised.
Example: "The artist felt that the final edit was a mutilation of her original vision for the project."
Alternatives: "a distortion of" or "an alteration of".
Yet as soon as one recalls these novels, it becomes difficult to imagine the precise ways in which they would have been different had they had to accommodate a mutilation of the kind visited upon the city on September 11.
At one point in his testimony, he said, "to irrevocably alter the constitutional settlement of this country on fraud is a mutilation of the constitutional settlement of this country".
Gàl's initial characterization of Rimini's position as a "mutilation" of Wodeham's position has exerted its influence over the subsequent scholarship (cf. Nuchelmans, and esp. Zupko).
The current height of the tower has been criticised as being disproportionate to its width; archaeologist Tim Tatton-Brown, for example, has described it as a mutilation of the earlier medieval structure.
Although the story takes pains to stress that it is merely one possible 'origin story,' it has been widely accepted and adopted into DC continuity, and a central mutilation of a long-running character had to be specially approved by editor Wein.
In the 1970s, nearly all of Spiegelman's work was years ahead of art-comics trends, from the original version of "Maus" (a three-page sketch about Spiegelman's father's experiences during the Holocaust, which evolved into his two-volume magnum opus in the '80s) to "The Malpractice Suite," an extended mutilation of an old "Rex Morgan M.D".
Chelfitsch, by the way, is a fanciful mutilation of the English word "selfish," said as a baby would pronounce it.
Soares, too, is spiritually akin to Pessoa: indeed, Pessoa wrote that he was only a "semi-heteronym," because "his personality, though not my own, doesn't differ from my own but is a mere mutilation of it".
Cibber's last play, Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John was "a miserable mutilation of Shakespeare's King John".
The right of integrity protects authors from having their copyrighted works altered in such a fashion as to constitute a "distortion" or "mutilation" of the original work, or in a way that harms the author's reputation or honour.
Is this a judgment about the quality of marble versus wood as a material, or merely a dodge to gloss over a contemplated faddish mutilation of one of New York's most recognized buildings?
