Rodriguez, like Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire before him, is an overmuscled player with freakishly distorted statistics who abetted the distortion of a sport that, when played on the square, rewards homelier virtues like guile and speed.
Now, with the addition of the auto-corrector, even the original material is distorted, so we are left with a distortion of a distortion.
It comes after 30 years of systematic brutalisation and distortion of a cosmopolitan culture.
The mayor called the notion "a distortion" of a proposal to revamp the city's cabaret licensing.
It may be a radical distortion of a human likeness, at first sight suggesting some kind of bird.
Guys, he never said that: it's a malicious distortion of a true statement, and no self-respecting journalist would repeat it.
Brought up bilingual in English and French (his father was a Mauritius-born British doctor), Le Clézio's vision of the world is almost that of an entomologist examining the world through the distortion of a microscrope's lens.
The Wooster Group's effort, with its skeletal set and flashing lights and badminton and video and precision execution, has been dismissed by some as yet another distortion of a classic text by the group's standard methodology.
Some well-meaning people tiptoe around the Islamic connection, claiming that the carnage has nothing to do with faith, or that Islam is a religion of peace, or that, at most, the violence represents a "distortion" of a great religion.
Mr. Cheney then said, "This notion that somehow I was opposed to freeing Nelson Mandela is a typical Al Gore distortion of a record, a point he's trying to make because he doesn't want to talk about real issues".
The problem with aggressive, oppositional language – beyond the crude political distortion of a complex global issue – is that it drives policy in only one direction, leaving no option of more humanitarian policies.
