The phrase "distorted lens" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used metaphorically to describe a skewed or biased perspective on a situation or issue.
Example: "When discussing the events, it's important to recognize that the media often presents a distorted lens of reality."
Alternatives: "skewed perspective" or "biased viewpoint."
Interrogators hear what they wish to hear, and the most innocent act appears sinister when seen through a distorted lens.
It only appears outsized because we're looking at China through a distorted lens.
That's because our real collective lives are not to be found on reality TV or in the musings of social commentators who view Palin through that distorted lens.
It was through this distorted lens ("Let's put the Great back in Great Britain") that a majority voted to leave.
Well, this reader would be a whole lot happier if The Times would spend more time covering the actual war, instead of looking at virtually everything through the distorted lens of domestic politics.
The races are left to see each other through the distorted lens of segregation, and the perspective is further warped by the competition for a shrinking supply of blue-collar jobs.
He continues that, "the moviemakers' distorted lenses have shown Arabs as heartless, brutal, uncivilized, religious fanatics through common depictions of Arabs kidnapping or raping a fair maiden; expressing hatred against the Jews and Christians; and demonstrating a love for wealth and power".
By using a novel distorting lens and digital-signal processing, the firm can extract crisp images from situations in which an ordinary lens sees only a blur.In a conventional optical system, light rays enter through a lens and converge at a point to form an image.
For example, in his memoir, Daniel Ellsberg describes security clearances as massively distorting lenses through which to view the world.
Some scenes are photographed through distorting lenses that stretch faces into sinister masks that dissolve and decompose.
This Ivesian piece purposefully tortures a little Mozartean ditty, viewing it through various magnifying and distorting lenses to stretch the ears and the imagination.
