What they do gain is a distorted, pessimistic perspective on their lives.
His military biography of Custer brings balance to a life that is often distorted by the preconceptions of the historian.
The book is a polemic, and its main target is what Mr de Waal takes to be a distorted idea of human life as relentlessly selfish and ruthlessly competitive.
This has created a global system that is deeply distorted, where those holding financial assets like stocks and bonds have been rewarded, but where the average American, for example, lives in a world of labor uncertainty and recession-level unemployment rates.
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The result is that we get a terribly distorted picture of modern life, and of modern childhood in particular.
Her voice, by turns plaintive and coaxing, is distorted to resemble a man's.
Since the exchange rate is a binary issue, not distorted by an overhang of global liquidity, we take euro-dollar stability and falling gold as rejecting the idea of a Fed rate cut.
The second is a glimpse, no matter how distorted, of the world as people perceive it.
So that's how the piece opens, and what you've got is a picture that's already distorted from the very beginning.
Think about it in the context of the age-old game of Telephone where you whisper a sentence around the table until it is distorted into something indistinguishable.
There is a consensus that the cluelessness of journalists like Kristof has not just wildly distorted the actual scientific evidence on BPA, it is contributing to a more general and broader assault on scientific integrity.
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Venezuelan politics is distorted most of all by a pervasive mood of threat.
If the loss estimates are too high or too low, you can get a very distorted picture of how the bank is truly performing.
Anything is possible, but a more likely explanation for the anomalous September and October figures is that they were distorted by fictitious transactions.
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The market became distorted, and that distortion is a bubble that will continue here until supply and demand comes into sync.
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Because Egypt's peculiar form of democracy usually produces a very low voter turnout and distorted results, it is hard to say how many Egyptians share the Brothers' outrage.
In general, the Israeli media responded to Beck's visit to Israel either as a non-event, or they distorted who Beck is and what he is trying to do.
Adds psychologist Susan Zafarlotfi, a sleep disorder specialist at Hackensack University Medical Center: "This study shows that CBT as compared to pharmacotherapy works much better ... pharmacotherapy is only a crutch, " while CBT aims to fix the distorted behavior and thought patterns that cause the disorder.
Other critics of Verheijen argue that his almost injury-free record is distorted by primarily working with international teams and also as a consultant.
Since the rise of the modern nation-state, classical economists have had to reason further from the Law of One Price, pointing out that the Law of One Price is a law of market-based economies and that the law becomes distorted as the market become distorted by forcible interruptions in transnational exchanges.
Bundling a monopoly product with one that is competitively provided may result in the competitive market being distorted.
Tax increases might play a minor role, clearing out foolish, wasteful and distorted taxes, but this is not the major solution.
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Relentless buying by exchange-traded funds has distorted the gold market, however, and there is the risk of a bubble forming, Mr. Lewis says.
The more volatile the returns are, the more distorted the numbers will be so this is an extreme example but even a small difference in returns can have a huge impact.
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As noted above, there is no benchmark for accurate search results or for accurate credit ratings, so it is difficult not only to know whether information has been distorted but also to devise a rule that would prevent it.
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To give the sequel's readers this distorted lens through which to view climate change and its solution is to do readers a grave disservice.
One conspiracy theory is that hedge funds distorted CDS prices, which in turn spooked the stock market and caused a collapse in confidence.
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