Word: warpedness
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Under the Orlop. "A ship," Dr. Samuel Johnson once remarked, "is worse than a gaol. There is, in gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of being in danger." Johnson's opinion, uttered in 1776, was still relevant in...
In his 1963 novel, a core sampling from that vein of irrational hostility that separates servants from masters, haves from havenots, Britain's John Fowles explored the miasmal psychology of an impotent, whey-faced nonentity named Clegg. A municipal clerk whose warped dreams brutally but clearly mock the aspirations...
Sir: The problem arising out of Selma is a product not of the so-called denial of constitutional rights but of vote-greedy politicians, a warped, sensation-seeking press, and the immoral desire to pillory the South of certain groups of so-called reformers and overt agitators.
"Warped Report"
Wald charged that the Doty Committee "warped the entire report" by using that "strange division" as a means of getting non-science concentrators to take more science courses.