When complex ideas pass through so many lenses of language, distortions are inevitable.
Saskatchewan Tory MP John Diefenbaker spoke the following day, and alleged that Howe had said, "We may save a million dollars, but what of it?" Howe angrily denied the quote, accusing Diefenbaker of being "a past master of distortion"—language he was forced to withdraw as unparliamentary.
But she is also a sharp observer of class and the insidious distortion of language in advertising and politics.
Frank Kimbrough, the pianist, started playing an improvised fantasia that worked in complete dissonance against the slow, repeating, rubato brass chords; it almost split your concentration in half, before a kind of slow Neil Young beat took over and the guitarist John Hart dived in, playing blues language with a little distortion.
I think Diner and Feld have run into the trap of accepting this Orwellian distortion of language by phrasing their credo in the wrong terms.
Equivocation by the United States in the face of mounting human rights violations, distortion of language, and manipulation of the democratic progress would be a gross disservice to the Egyptian people.
As an American, and as a writer, I'm appalled at the deliberate distortion of language in calling the shutdown a "slimdown," as if it were akin to losing a little weight, suggesting that we should look upon this ugly mess as something positive or proactive.
It brings to mind only sordid regimes of surveillance and thought control and the distortions of language that make them possible.
In this manner, many of the traditional vexatious philosophical puzzles and perplexities are shown to arise out of theoretically-driven misuses or distortions of language.
The Bush administration's distortions of language are a culmination of these efforts.
