Sentence examples for distorted impressions from inspiring English sources

Concentration upon Appearance and Reality alone, therefore, risks placing undue weight upon what turn out to be temporary features of thought or expression, and this has in fact contributed to the distorted impressions of his thinking so often to be found in the textbooks of analytic philosophy.

A reliance on the actual record might also inadvertently distort our impressions.

Sometimes this kind of coverage creates a self-reinforcing "availability cascade", massively distorting public impressions of the relative riskiness of activities.

The memorandum says that the results of coming studies would be published only if they conclude that Neurontin worked for migraines -- a tactic, often used by drug companies, that can distort doctors' impressions about medicines.

"The government is working to ensure that foreign terrorist structures do not influence the young people by distorting their impressions of Islam," said Zaur Chilayev, 32, an engineer, who was part of an overflow crowd at Dushanbe's central mosque for Friday Prayer recently.

Clinically, questions have been raised about whether topical anesthesia alters laryngeal secretions, which distorts clinical impressions.

Wodeham defended the reliability of our immediate simple apprehensions, but he also admitted the possibility that the imagination can severely distort these impressions such that we are inclined to assent to what the simple apprehension itself does not warrant.

Abi-Saab allowed that memory can be distorted by intervening impressions, and he said, "We were all much more passionate then.

But it is only when you go in search of the real Lawrence of Arabia that you realise how distorted the general impressions and received wisdom are about the man.

When I try to remember what it was, exactly, that I loved about a particular July, what arrives is a series of surprisingly vivid impressions, distorted by time — or, as.Paak says, by a "combination of all my life's complaints and a few strong drinks".

Trumbull's view of the falls is distorted to give the impression that they are painted on a curved, "wide-screen" surface.