"I was distorting reality in my head because it was so beautiful, and I was, like, 'Yeah, we could definitely fit.' It was $600 a month below our threshold.
To imply that most of his fans are the kind of people who get upset if he utters a curse word or performs with a rapper is distorting reality and reaching for the easy joke.
Is your partner really rejecting you or might you be distorting reality?
Be alert to the possibility that it is your own viewpoint that is distorting reality.
One of the ways we do this is by distorting reality: we remove certain animals' individuality and instead perceive them as a group of 'things' (albeit living ones), rather than unique sentient beings, each with his or her own idiosyncrasies and capacity to express pain, love, joy and grief.
I think the international press is distorting the reality somewhat by simply publishing the second half of all these conditional sentences.
Prof Murray Saunders, of Lancaster University's faculty of arts and social sciences, says the way that supermarkets price and present food is distorting the reality of food production, particularly for young consumers.
Owen would counter -- in vivid, gripping images -- that it is the White House, with its campaign to hide casualties from view, that is dangerously distorting reality.
Given that social anxiety in children has been consistently shown to be associated with negative interpretations (although it is less clear if these negative interpretations are distorted or a reflection of reality; see Miers, Blöte and Westenberg, 2011), recently the paradigms have been adapted for use with children (e.g. Vassilopoulos, Banerjee and Prantzalou, 2009).
This strategy attempts to discredit mainstream science, alleging that evolutionary scenarios are distorted or inaccurate pictures of physical reality.
Facebook might be distorting our sense of reality and creating an uninformed, hyper-partisan citizenry with its automated feeds and trending topics, but it's also making record profits.
