Sentence examples for contorted out of from inspiring English sources

For the manner in which the initial security council resolution was contorted out of all recognition from the protection of civilians to, in effect, outright regime change has left a sour taste in the mouths of powers like China, Russia and India who still hold an absolute conception of state sovereignty".

It's music that winds up reconfiguring what a symphony might be at the end of the 20th century, by which time the form had been battered, bruised and contorted out of all recognition to its heroic phase in the late 19th century; and which does so, paradoxically, because it defies, ignores, or flat-out contradicts the conventions of symphonic discourse.

As she instructs me to hold my breath with each picture, my neck is contorted out of any normal relationship with my spine, and I remind myself that I can withstand anything for 15 seconds (it's probably less than five but... )...

It is part of the beauty of the game that no matter how contorted and dragged out of shape it might become football will always find a way to renew itself.

There's one key difference that seems so blindingly obvious it's not often pointed out: after the moody, skunked-out head-swell of dubstep and the macho, contorted screw-face of grime, this music is just so freaking... happy.

They are in the painfully contorted position of being both passionately sincere and disingenuous in pointing out that the Corbyn leadership "isn't working".

Before I could swing open the door, my eyes spied the yellow sheet of paper, dangling from a weak magnet, on which I had written: "Contort = to twist, bend, draw out of shape.

In the Cheneys' contorted diagram of history, going to war is itself a victory.

Reality was instantly contorted; a suspension of some senses was coupled with an acceleration of others.

An unkempt man with whiskey on his breath climbed into a box next to the dancer and made contorted faces before lurching out of the room.

Mr. Gorumba was assigned to ensure that the hoses, which might contort and spin out of control from intense water pressure, flowed properly.