"I only wished to say that this 'distortion,' as Evgenie Pavlovitch expressed it, is met with very often, and is far more the general rule than the exception, unfortunately for Russia.
And recollect--it was a YOUTH, at the particular age which is most helplessly susceptible to the distortion of ideas!"
- There was something either in that smile or the recollections it awakened that was particularly displeasing to her, for she suddenly assumed again that proud, chilly look that had so unspeakably roused my aversion at church - a look of repellent scorn, so easily assumed, and so entirely without the least
distortion of a single feature, that, while there, it seemed like the natural expression of the face, and was the more provoking to me, because I could not think it affected.
In due course they were moved up, having learned little but a cheerful effrontery in the
distortion of truth, which was possibly of greater service to them in after life than an ability to read Latin at sight.
If you have ever seen a collie smile you may have some idea of Woola's facial
distortion.
But although Hop-Frog, through the
distortion of his legs, could move only with great pain and difficulty along a road or floor, the prodigious muscular power which nature seemed to have bestowed upon his arms, by way of compensation for deficiency in the lower limbs, enabled him to perform many feats of wonderful dexterity, where trees or ropes were in question, or any thing else to climb.
Such are the views which, with much passionate
distortion of his thin features and wagging of his thin, goat-like beard, he poured into our ears all the way from Southampton to Manaos.
Archer saw no trace of the slight
distortion left by her stroke.
Coupled with this
distortion of the face, this Hippocratic smile, or 'risus sardonicus,' as the old writers called it, what conclusion would it suggest to your mind?"
She had no fear of the dear old grandfather, in whose love for her this disease of the brain had been engendered; but the man she had seen that night, wrapt in the game of chance, lurking in her room, and counting the money by the glimmering light, seemed like another creature in his shape, a monstrous
distortion of his image, a something to recoil from, and be the more afraid of, because it bore a likeness to him, and kept close about her, as he did.
Instantly the flexible limbs of the child assumed the appearance of deformity and
distortion, as, with his back humped up, and his master's stick in his hand, he hobbled about the room, his childish face drawn into a doleful pucker, and spitting from right to left, in imitation of an old man.
I was still naive enough to associate them with tears, lamentations, extraordinary attitudes of the body and some sort of facial
distortion, all very dreadful to behold.
"Yes, it will," said Celia, with the same touching
distortion of her small features.
The magnetic field
distortions in the presence of metal ions cause large resonant frequency variations, resulting remarkable number of artifacts in MRI.
Cohen, "Locally adapted projections to reduce panorama
distortions," Computer Graphics Forum, vol.
