The force of the blast had bent palm trees nearby into distorted shapes.
It was in this dark aftermath of war, in the shadow of isolation and contempt, that Haiti's peculiar political system took shape, mirroring in distorted form, like a wax model placed too close to the fire, the slave society of colonial times.
The women's faces are composed to look like African masks; their bodies are constructed from distorted shapes and hard angles; one woman, already unladylike with her exaggerated features, squats in the corner.
I lived as if underwater, haunted by distorted shapes and muffled sounds.
Caps grow in a distorted shape when fruit bodies are closely clustered.
Symptoms of viral disease in glasshouse plants include blotches, yellowish mottling, streaks and distorted shapes.
By looking at the distorted shapes of these galaxies, a team of astronomers has worked out how the invisible material is spread out in the galaxy cluster.
The greatly distorted shapes are called isomeric states, and these new forms of nuclear matter are consequently called shape isomers.
These included "Tangled Night," "Canticle for Innocent Comedians" and "Night Journey," with its unforgettable distorted shapes for the chorus.
It just takes stranger, more distorted shapes.
Cells of mutant strain A varied widely in size and shape; mostly, yeast and pseudohyphal forms with budding scars at the ends were present, although a few somewhat distorted shapes were also seen.
