Sentence examples for misshaping from inspiring English sources

Her labour of love is an affecting, handsomely mounted affair set in the world of Joyce's Dubliners, and its subjects are sexual oppression, the exploitation of women in patriarchal society, gender identity and the shaping and misshaping of character.

The neat family trees and branch lines charting the steady progress of evolution, and those ubiquitous illustrations of the ascent of humans, in which we evolve step by step from bent-over apes to straight-backed homo sapiens, are not just simplistic, they are a profound misshaping of the truth.

A little of this misshaping, to be honest, goes a long way, and it could be argued that smartphones won't really prove their worth, on the big screen, until they can fulfill more sober duties, showing sights unwarped by paranoia.

"We know heat can be a factor and can cause slight misshaping or buckling in the rail," Ms. Carmody said.

She has opened shows for Gucci and Balenciaga, been photographed by Mario Testino and Steven Meisel, appeared on the cover of Vogue, Elle, Allure and Numéro – yet the pictures we most enjoy seeing of her remain those of her backstage or walking down the street; in her ripped and faded denim, her leggings, her sloppy jumpers and misshaped grey marl vests.

One of the more discouraging examples of how this imbalance misshapes American foreign policy lies in Africa.

His head is now somewhat misshaped, with a crevice left by a piece of pipe and dents from the butt of a gun.

This display also includes a small, elegantly misshaped bowl by the great American potter George Ohr, a pear-wood side table by the French Art Nouveau designer Hector Guimard, a pair of amazingly au courant Polaroid sunglasses from 1946 and a streamlined wheelchair from 1986 by the Swiss designer Rainer Küschall.

Mr. Romney will likely never appreciate how much those "last couple of decades" were shaped — or misshaped — by the very politics of government by-and-for the rich that he represents.

It now appears that not only a failing economy can produce human misery, even one praised as a paragon of success also has the power to misshape human purposes.

Wordsworth lamented: "Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things.