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Discover LudwigThe phrase "as contorted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is twisted or distorted in shape or meaning, often in a figurative sense.
Example: "Her explanation was as contorted as the path through the dense forest, making it hard to follow."
Alternatives: "as twisted" or "as distorted."
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"Breaker" can seem as contorted as the bodies of the actresses (it has an all-female cast), who wind themselves variously around swings, a window frame, a fishing net and a rocking chair.
When a plot is as contorted as this, no single twist seems to wield more force than any other, and you soon slump back and submit to the wash and surge of the action.
Judge Joanna Wade described CitySprint's contractual arrangements as contorted, indecipherable and window-dressing.
She considers it her job to make employees and children around the world — and in the audience — feel as contorted by misery as her face is.
The lithe aerialist flung her body from pose to pose over the dance floor, ensnared in the silk before slack-jawed art lovers, into a hundred poses, her body as contorted as a Picasso.
"As contorted as the N.H.L.'s arguments always are in terms of responding to concerns about fighting, I think they're almost at the final point of contortion," Dryden told the conference.
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As congress prepares to debate the merits of stem-cell research in the coming months, we will undoubtedly hear rosy visions of the future of medicine with stem cells (as well as the contorted political logic that suggests that research on human embryos and cross-species nuclear-transfer experiments are permissible in the private sector, but morally indefensible in the public sector).
The Dolomites derive their remarkable form from the erosion of the light-colored limestone peculiar to the region; hence the peaks as strangely contorted as wet sand dribbled into a pile, the deep gorges, the steep rock faces at fairly low levels, and the large deposits of limestone debris.
"Under the bright lights, my nose, eyes, lips, and tongue contorted as if they'd seceded from my face and were involved in a game of one-upmanship….
Baxter collapsed to the dirt, kicking his legs in pain as Santana contorted his face in a wince.
He would watch them and then inevitably reach for them, his face filling with excitement as mine contorted in horror.
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