1 They pounce on the idea, and distort it, and then work it out so pettily and unworthily.
2 Dr. Seward is loved not only by his household and his friends, but even by his patients, who, being some of them hardly in mental equilibrium, are apt to distort causes and effects.
3 But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
4 One moment out of all that had happened last night stood vividly before my imagination; the moment when I struck a match and saw her pale, distorted face, with its look of torture.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor DostoevskyContext Highlight In PART 2: VIII 5 He turned away from her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed Anna Pavlovna's hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company.
6 Before the officer finished his sentence Prince Andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised his riding whip.
7 Pierre's face, already pale, became distorted by fury.
8 He was unconscious and lay like a distorted corpse.
9 The count, pipe in hand, was pacing up and down the room, when Natasha, her face distorted by anger, burst in like a tempest and approached her mother with rapid steps.
10 And one of the soldiers, his face all at once distorted with fury, struck Vereshchagin on the head with the blunt side of his saber.
11 Two dragoons took it by its distorted legs and dragged it along the ground.
12 His dressing gown was unfastened, his face red and distorted.
13 When he saw Natasha he waved his arms despairingly and burst into convulsively painful sobs that distorted his soft round face.
14 Every time that I closed my eyes I saw before me the distorted baboon-like countenance of the murdered man.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR 15 So she thought as she was going home, and saw the colliers trailing from the pits, grey-black, distorted, one shoulder higher than the other, slurring their heavy ironshod boots.