Sentence examples for language distortions from inspiring English sources

When complex ideas pass through so many lenses of language, distortions are inevitable.

2 It is worth noting that some opponents of CAM have objected to the term 'complementary and alternative medicine', claiming that such usage originated as a form of language distortion by CAM advocates.

The screenplay has a keen grasp of language's distortions, whether in self-dramatizing dialogue or marketing-speak jargon.

Driven by despair at the abuse, especially the political abuse, of language, at the distortions that result when words are permitted to drift away from the world, Oppen's poetry proceeds almost literally one by one; very short lines placing words with the kind of deliberation and care that he felt was necessary if they were to communicate truth.

Both can be respectably begun at an elementary level, in straightforward language, without great distortion; and yet each proceeds, at its most sophisticated development, to make powerful demands on the scholar, which, when satisfied, can produce statements of great interest and consequence to our understanding of the world.

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.

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.

It brings to mind only sordid regimes of surveillance and thought control and the distortions of language that make them possible.

The Bush administration's distortions of language are a culmination of these efforts.

They won't bring up any of the anti-gay lies, homophobic language, or willful scientific distortions they have been guilty of throughout the years.

In other cases, however, subtle distortions of language can occur after traumatic brain injury.