Sentence examples for like a distortion from inspiring English sources

"The status-quo ante looked like a distortion".

This is what happened: It looks like a distortion, doesn't it?

To me, writing from Berlin, this view seems like a distortion.

Even the selection of what Vishniac chose to publish now seems, broadly, like a distortion.

The accounting of merchandise and money might feel like a distortion of Marley's legacy, of his capacity to take the lives of those who suffered and struggled and turn them into poetry.

Sad as it was to see the destruction of a beautiful city like Dresden, it is a distortion of history to mourn its fate without acknowledging the even more pernicious annihilation of Warsaw by the Germans (Lives, Feb. 13).

To Tang, the cropping looked like a deliberate distortion.

If that sounds like a drastic distortion of normal psychology, it isn't.

From these walls, like a hallucinogenic distortion, a mournful array of human forms bulge forward, feet anchored to the floor, eyes downcast, bodies lost in outlandish folds: female phantoms, pillars and structural support, trapped in a paralyzing nightmare.

One approach, taking into account both the friction force as well as the thermo effect, is to describe the local plasma equilibrium by a Maxwellian like reference state, perturbed by a distortion function accounting for inhomogeneities.

The behavior of a distortion-like secondary order parameter displays principal features of transition in spin-crossover solids.