The two groups, he wrote, "visualizing the possibilities of destruction and grasping the tendencies of distorted national priorities, are throwing their weight into shifting America off the dead-end track".
In judging himself he has, or may be presumed to have, the requisite information but he has the problem of overcoming the tendency to a distorted judgment caused by self-love or self-interest.
However, he showed no signs of possessing a distorted body image or suicidal tendencies.
As a result, he complained, many conservatives have developed a distorted sense of priorities and a tendency to engage in fantasy, like the belief that President Obama was not born in the United States or that the health care bill proposed establishing "death panels".
This refers to the tendency to self-select the distorted and negative viewpoints of everything, entrenching the depression even further.
If one only reported trials that resulted in heads 5 or more times, others would have a deeply distorted understanding of the coin's behavior, mistakenly concluding a tendency towards "heads" that did not actually exist.
The women could also have a tendency to select partners that are consistent with the distorted views within the context in which they live.
The tendency to hurry questions and answers is compounded by the distorted sense of time that people get during an interview.
Those who claimed, with great certainty, that Arabs are an exception to the human tendency toward freedom, that they live in a stunted and distorted culture that makes them love their chains and that the notion the United States could help trigger a democratic revolution by militarily deposing their oppressors was a fantasy have been proved wrong.
The first step in reducing hostile tendencies is to recognize how hostile you may be and the distorted thoughts and beliefs that give rise to angry outbursts.
Perhaps it is true that contemporary liberal democracies have in fact had a strong tendency to promote individualism, where this is understood as a person's having a distorted focus on her rights to the exclusion of her obligations and responsibilities to others.
