Sentence examples for rather contorted from inspiring English sources

While Bushy feels confident in his claim that the Queen's grief is "nothing but conceit" (l. 33), the reasoning of his "perspectives" simile is rather contorted and confusing.

Labour's rather contorted effort to gain political capital from the event, with their photos of dogs sniffing out Letwin, scored a measly 7%, with an (admittedly rather juvenile) picture of Hague cuddling an equally bald baby coming out on top with 40%.

One proposal also moving forward in the UK and US is called "CHIPS" (a rather contorted acronym for Cherenkov Detectors in Mine Pits) which could make important contributions toward the eventual precision of LBNE, using some of the neutrinos which Fermilab is currently "spewing into space", as Jenny Thomas (a UCL colleague and one of the CHIPS leaders) puts it.

I am very glad President Obama said in his speech Sunday night that Osama bin Laden did not represent Islam, but rather contorted it to fit his own aspirations.

There is a balance to be struck in using Mormonism to inform those exchanges — treating it as a road map, as Kantor does, rather than insisting on some contorted catechism.

Indeed, the fact that many of these scams are now uncovered may well reflect greater scrutiny rather than greater fraud.More important, in its own confused, contorted and clumsy way, the European Parliament has begun at last to flex its flabby muscles, and to behave in the way that an elected overseer of an unelected body ought to.

These allusions, rather than directly quoting or referencing a source, normally enter the text in a contorted fashion, often through humorous plays on words.

Instead, he thought the immense pressure from the snake's contorted body sent its prey into cardiac arrest.

The figures tangle, thrust into contorted positions.

His disciples wait in contorted poses.

Foudy did not resort to contorted alibis for the misses.