Torque is a measure of the tendency to turn or twist something or otherwise impart a rotary motion to it about some axis.
It involves a conscious and deliberate attempt at examination by perversion: You twist something on its edge so that you can look at it in a different way.
"I defend democracy, I defend the freedom of the media, but I don't defend Donald Trump twisting something to stoke fears into Republicans," he said.
A plaque next to Haddon's tomb – an exquisite life-size effigy modelled in plaster by his mother, Violet – states that he died of TB, but there is also the suggestion that Haddon died, as Violet put it in a letter, "after twisting something inside".
It's not like you've twisted something, but comes little by little.
An unflinching spectator of his own pain, Shechter uses dance to twist it into something feral and even beautiful.
Would the songs lose their edge or would I be able to twist them into something fresh using the wisdom of age?
They think I'm going to twist their mind or something.
Headlining is Randall, a fondly regarded jungle great who was one of the first to twist acid house into something even gnarlier.
