When a leader succumbs to hubris syndrome, the authors wrote, his experience at the top has distorted his personality and decision-making.
The implication is that getting high did not distort his personality but from one perspective turned him into who he really was.
In the name of "revenge" for the Sept. 11 attack, an intellectual and political noose is being tightened and attempting to distort the personality and the message of Muhammad.
Still, at conferences, over dinner and through Virginia Woolf e-mail lists, many Woolfians are fuming, arguing that their idol has been turned into a pathetic, suicide-obsessed creature, her politics ignored, her personality distorted and even her kisses inaccurately portrayed.
Abuse of the child by the caregiver is bound to distort the developing personality and create a much greater risk for depression and many other debilitating mental and emotional states.
Treatment Part of the difficulty here is that Wright is suffering from a personality disorder, ie behaviour distorted by earlier experience, and this is not regarded as an illness like schizophrenia.
This would have improved the validity of our findings, since such cancers diagnosed soon after the baseline personality assessment might have distorted responses because of to subclinical symptoms caused by as-yet diagnosed cancers.
Turing had been reduced to "a caricature of the tortured genius", wrote Christian Caryl, who argued that the film distorted the computer science pioneer's real personality and misrepresented the work of the cryptanalysts who cracked the Enigma code.
The games also reflect aspects of Rogers's personality, such as in the "scream sound effect" on Ziggurat made and distorted from his guitar based on sounds made by eccentric Japanese musicians whose records he owned.
Here Hollinghurst's structure begins to bear fruit, as we see events, personalities, and relationships whose progress we have witnessed over decades become flattened and distorted by Paul's literal-minded determination to correct the record.
