1.   And even when revolution or military defeat should have opened eyes, distorted versions of reality survive.

2.   His advisers complain that whatever he says in secret before a grand jury could be leaked in a distorted version by a biased Starr, making him look guilty.

3.   Often, flowering is reduced to dozens or hundreds of tiny distorted versions of the normal bloom across the top of this stiff, spread-out stem.

4.   Terrorists, the pundits say, harbor a murderously distorted version of the same impulse.

5.   Many Muslims in America, he said, have learned a distorted version of Islam.