Some of the most intelligent and accomplished people I know get bent-out-of-shape by the notion that they do not have near-universal appreciation.

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It's not only big-name celebrities that get bent out of shape.

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So far, the birds have been bound by the all-powerful principle of gravity, but in space, that concept is going to get a little bent.

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This doesn't seem to get Crissy too bent out of shape.

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Gruber has begged and borrowed and bent plenty of rules to get this far.

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The problem is that these switches wear out, they get crushed by flying "air balls", or they are knocked and bent out of position.

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The Scunthorpe midfielder picked himself up after being fouled and bent a 20-yard free-kick round the wall, with keeper Dudu Aouate managing to get a touch before the ball hit the corner of the net.

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