"twisted values" is both grammatically and syntactically correct in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to values that have been distorted away from their intended meaning or purpose. For example, "Our society often adopts twisted values, such as excessive materialism and the insatiable pursuit of wealth."
It really is a lot easier to fix a bum roof than twisted values.
Prejudice and twisted values are not the exclusive province of white people.
In this world of concrete and steel and twisted values, don't forget the cool streams and grassy meadows.' " That sentiment was very close to the theme of "It's a Man's World," which was articulated largely through the character of Tom-Tom DeWitt.
Francisco Umbral exposed the twisted values and perverse milieu of an idealistic young fascist in Madrid 1940; in Arturo Pérez-Reverte's riveting thriller for bibliophiles, El club Dumas, a rare-book dealer unravels the mystery of a diabolical 12th-century manuscript; and Días contados, by Juan Madrid, graphically depicted the seamy side of life in the capital's rough Malasaña district.
Standing with Rand means standing with his creepy buddies -- not to mention the twisted values that led him to hire those buddies in the first place.
The national leaders who have fueled this zealous mistrust of Muslims, and worked toward making Islamophobia a legitimate political position, have put our troops in harm's way, irreparably injured the war effort that many of them were eager to start, and twisted American values into something very ugly.
Yet, guess who the McCain/Palin campaign trumps out onto the tarmac Wednesday, in some twisted family-values photo-op, to greet McCain's plane as he lands in Minneapolis for the RNC convention?
It can be hard, as we watch corporations push harder and harder at us and our children to consume and accept twisted products and values that are not in our best interests, not to fight back with regulation.
If ever there was an example of how twisted and shallow our values have become, and how what society believes to be important has degenerated, this episode stands on a podium.Jaroslav Havel West Caldwell, N.J.
In what twisted world are those values to be proud of?
It vaguely has something to do with working class values and some twisted relationship involving a "sister of the strange, twisted and deranged"; but most likely, it doesn't, so don't get down with the minutiae.
