Distortions Sentence Examples

Owing to the great extent of Asia, it is not easy to obtain a correct conception of the actual form of its outline from ordinary maps, the distortions which accompany projections of great and misleading.

This process creates lenses that are exceptionally clear and free of distortions.

The plates in this last are by Barraband, for many years regarded as the perfection of ornithological artists, and indeed the figures, when they happen to have been drawn from the life, are not bad; but his skill was quite unable to vivify the preserved specimens contained in museums, and when he had only these as subjects he simply copied the distortions of the " bird-stuffier."

Hence some stalactites have their tips under water long enough to allow tassels of crystals to grow on them, which, in a drier season, are again coated over with stalactitic matter; and thus singular distortions are occasioned.

Adams make its direction downwards; but round the rim and on bridges the characteristic distortions due to eruptive prominences are often observed.

Attachment is with self tapping screws to avoid thermal distortions of the type induced in the present surface by spot welding.

In section 2.10 in Chapter 2, we learned that all remote sensing imagery are inherently subject to geometric distortions.

Some are pure fabrications, while others appear to be simple distortions of the original reports.

The tiny distortions are measured by means of a laser interferometer.

Yet we will provide additional refutation of Zawadi's desperate distortions of biblical teaching as we move along.

Some of the difference results from involuntary unemployment or involuntary early retirement, reflecting labor market distortions.

Sometimes, as in the cases of the resurrection being allegorized2 and marriage repudiated,' it is feasible to detect distortions or exaggerations of Paul's own teaching, against which the Paulinist of the pastorals puts in a caveat and a corrective.

Those periods which have been dominated by the great masters of style have been less interested in the criticism of the historian's methods of investigation than in the beauty of his rhetoric. The scientific historian, deeply interested in the search for truth, is generally but a poor artist, and his uncoloured picture of the past will never rank in literature beside the splendid distortions which glow in the pages of a Michelet or Macaulay.

Yet we will provide additional refutation of Zawadi 's desperate distortions of biblical teaching as we move along.

Why would high officials use untruths and distortions in an effort to cast nongovernmental scientists in an unfavorable light.

There are none of the scribbles, distortions, and virtually unreadable grunge fonts that sometimes wish to pass as clever modern typography.

Open doors and look down body lines for dents or distortions indicating previous accidents.

Lower quality mirrors may have slight distortions, but these are not always visible to the human eye.

It protects the eyes, sharpens visual acuity and clarity, and indeed enhances performance by keeping visual distortions and distractions to a minimum.

Smith specializes in technology that helps to reduce visual distortions and because of this innovation, claims to offer greater clarity.

Tics are a type of dyskinesia, which is the general medical term given to impairments or distortions of voluntary movements.

Evidence suggests that those long-lasting brain changes are responsible for the distortions of cognitive and emotional functioning that characterize addicts, particularly the compulsion to use drugs.