Then, long after him, his sidekick smiled, echoing some twisted inner meaning.
It now faces a "twisted Diet", meaning it lacks enough support in both the upper and the lower house to pass and implement legislation on its own.
But ask if she wants to be a Sox fan instead and she'll give you that little twisted grimace, meaning, "Yeah, right".
Native peoples from ocean to ocean have long experience with twisted words, meanings and thinking, and we recognize echoes of a past that we do not want to repeat.
Add twisted, double-meaning newspaper headline bloopers (New Bridge Held Up by Red Tape) and words spelled the same but pronounced differently (An immigrant coming into a bookstore, asking for a book to "Polish my English"). and you have a cocktail of amusing and fascinating examples of things which make our language exciting.
The term derives from Latin tortum, meaning "something twisted, wrung, or crooked". The concept encompasses only those civil wrongs independent of contracts.
The director will admit only that he wants to make something affecting and that he wants to cede autonomy to the audience, who can make their own meaning of his twisted, endlessly beguiling scenes.
Because there were some very twisted people inside and the sole meaning and extent of their lives was to f— with you, and to respond in kind was a lock on extending your sentence.
A lot of modern music videos dress themselves in symbols but mean nothing; Twigs' videos are heavy with meaning we must decipher through slow overtures of twisted desires, painful emotions and complex expressions of female desire.
The twisted tail significantly throws off such an estimate, meaning the bat is more likely to miss.
