Word: distortive
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...only minimize or emphasize news to fit your disdain, but distort it to give rise to the spectacular. These are the attributes of yellow papers, and I, who for months have been an ardent admirer of your publication, feel disappointed...
...Significance. There is much more to the story of the Smiths, and it is a good story. They and colorful contemporaries live in the book, continuously and visibly. Their author does not psychoanalyze or otherwise distort them. She has employed, with notable poise and richness, the formula of Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga against a thoroughly U. S. background, Chicago. Residents of that vigorous commonty will discredit their citizenship by failing to read this excellent chronicle of its childhood. Other nonreaders will miss a sound, satisfying novel...
...startled cry") that this is their kind of book. It is true that Mr. Maugham's material has served many a dingy charlatan; true also that his style is undistinguished. But he has a rare grace: humility. He wants to tell a good story, but he does not distort the pattern thrt life imposes upon even the most shoddy events. He writes sensationism with an air of having his manner dictated absolutely by his material. His story is as compact as a surgical dressing...
...spoke to his associates. "I wish to pay a compliment to the reporters of the various newspapers who do present the facts in the same news column, correctly. It takes an editorial writer, however, to exercise the imagination of a Munchausen, and these gentlemen deliberately lie, because they distort the language as it appears in the newspaper columns, and I shall expect every member of the House to bear me out in the proposition when I quote from this leading editorial...
...regularly suffered from insomnia and indigestion. This, it is believed accounts for his cynical, gloomy philosophy. Similarly, "the bitter passages of Huxley's essays are attributed to dyspepsia, which resulted from overeating." It seems established that while the diet can neither produce nor defeat genius, it can nevertheless distort its application and profoundly affect disposition and character...