The weather has a warping effect on reality.
In fact, with the warping effect of time, both had grown larger.
Macdonald now placed the blame for the American worker's indifference to socialism on "the deadening and warping effect of long exposure to movies, pulp magazines and radio".
A key source of the bile that has poisoned Jack and Judy's marriage appears to be the warping effect of economic forces on intimate relations: "trying to reconcile money and sex," as Jack puts it.
Instead, she identifies behaviours exhibited by women in the workplace – an unwillingness to ask for more money; a tendency, in meetings, to hold back; a conservatism in estimating their self-worth – as the warping effect of historical and ongoing gender bias.
The New Yorker, July 10, 2000 P. 83 Briefly Noted book review of "Lying" (Random House; $21.95) by Lauren Slater... Slater's memoir is...[o]stensibly an account of growing up with grand-mal epilepsy, it eventually discloses that the symptoms may be feigned, the warping effect of a heavy-drinking, narcissistic mother... View Article.
The Republican electorate in Iowa is dominated by conservative evangelicals, whose influence in G.O.P. politics has waned nationally but grown in Iowa, which means that the state has a warping effect on G.O.P. Presidential candidates: it forces them to spend a year emphasizing issues that appeal to a hundred thousand religious conservatives who represent 0.03percentnt of the American population.
Jason Douthwaite, a logistics officer in Baghlan, told the military paper that he felt more like an investigating officer than a mentor: "It's not, 'Let me teach you your job.' It's more like, 'How much did you steal from the American government today?' " Given the warping effect of ego in Washington, I asked the defense secretary how he ensures that he doesn't turn into Robert McNamara?
If there's one thing above others that English letters can do without, it's another dreary account of the horrors of an expensive private British education, the indelible scars that a neo-fascist regime of corporal punishment and single-sex confinement inflicts upon its wards, and the warping effect of all this on the body psychic of the British ruling classes down the ages.
I didn't see the warping effect, but my glowsticks might have gotten in my way.
