"Distorted understanding" refers to an incorrect or twisted comprehension of something. It means that someone may not fully grasp or interpret a concept, idea, or situation accurately.
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While this tactic yielded some real benefits, highlighting the needs of young people who were too long marginalized or ignored, it has
also distorted our understanding of schools and their mission.
The account of Jesus» conversation with the woman at the well (John 4:5 - 42) is difficult to read because most of us have been subjected to highly imaginative and biblically unwarranted portraits of her
which distort our understanding.
In a widely cited study, Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle claimed to expose a vast network of organizations executing «a deliberate and organized effort to misdirect debate and
distort the understanding of climate change.»
The pill gives many a false sense of who they are and how God made them,
it distorts their understanding of their purpose in life.
Terrorists reactively point to our corruption, our debauchery, our history of exploitive meddling in Middle Eastern affairs and their vision of a civilization under
their distorted understanding of divine law, to say, «Of course, God is on our side.»
When claims to rights are severed from the just requirements of morality and the common good, the inevitable result is
a distorted understanding of human rights that all too often leads to the violation of the rights of others.
For all of their being situated, interests guiding the effort to understand God have consequences that work to countervail the tendencies of situatedness to
distort understanding.
This addition does, in principle, guard against a bibliocentrism that may
distort our understanding of the biblical message itself.
It's so important to have the correct perspective, as the world is constantly trying to twist the meaning of the Bible so that people don't recognize, or have
a distorted understanding of, God's love and mercy and grace.
But I worry that the question of pets in heaven could
distort our understanding of eternal life as described in Scripture and Christian tradition.
Dr. Gardner discourages the use of «quick - and - dirty» MI tests that promote superficial labeling and
a distorted understanding of MI theory.
Dr. Howard Gardner speaks often about «perils» of quickie MI tests that encourage student labeling and
a distorted understanding of MI theory.
His distorted understanding of the family roles is depicted in his piece Using my Family (1998).
Daniel Arsham employs elements of architecture, performance, and sculpture to manipulate and
distort understandings of structures and space.
In a still widely cited study Brulle claimed to expose a vast network of organizations executing «a deliberate and organized effort to misdirect debate and
distort the understanding of climate change.»
This report shows how the media are producing a deeply skewed and
distorted understanding of our civil jury system.