Current events often shape, sometimes misshape, presidential politics. From Wordnik.com. [Congressional Midterm Elections Over, 2012 Presidential Race Next] Reference
Those were injured in road misshape are namely Noor Azam and Ghulam Muhammad. From Wordnik.com. [1 died 2 injured in road mishap] Reference
Why do people continue to misshape this into something that resembles a practical debate?. From Wordnik.com. [Is the FutureGen 'Clean Coal' Project Back in the Stimulus Bill?] Reference
That something is at stake for any interpretation is suggested by the misshape of Box Hill. From Wordnik.com. [Boxing Emma; or the Readers Dilemma at the Box Hill Games] Reference
Some rose anyway, some did not; of the latter, a "legacy of defeat" went on to misshape another generation. From Wordnik.com. [A Thinking Man's Speech] Reference
And if they're not money, then they're just grubby germ-infested copper discs that weigh down your pockets or misshape your wallet. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Like millions of other Americans, my mother fails to grasp the extent of the propaganda that is used to manipulate and misshape her views. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Zombie Culture] Reference
Holes and loose threads and this odd misshape that rarely covered her radio, much less the stainless steel perculator she'd found (!) behind Walgreens. From Wordnik.com. [loose threads] Reference
After a quiet minute or two, he either went back to the bridge, or at times disassembling the body — was it perhaps a misshape or improperly positioned piece that made his masterpiece incomplete?. From Wordnik.com. [Jesse's Violin] Reference
Together, the legal narrative they crafted contributed to Garvey's untimely death, tainted his legacy for decades, and helped to misshape the future of the 20th century struggle for racial justice. From Wordnik.com. [Hansford on Death by Narrative and the Marcus Garvey Case] Reference
Three new crime-thrillers, each with a distinctive regional setting, explore the intricacies of these adages: how parents shape, or misshape, their children; and the ways in which youthful acts and experiences alter later lives for good or ill. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Family, for Good and Ill] Reference
On the contrary, Mill was concerned with distinguishing between sinister and non-sinister interests, supplying causal explanations of their origins and development, rendering judgments about them, and attempting to alter the conditions that shape (or more often misshape) men's and women's characters. From Wordnik.com. [James Mill] Reference
Moccasins just broadened her feet healthily, while she did not misshape them by running with the dogs in her childhood. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of the Wolf] Reference
No, the point is that the headline Prince didn't use, like the dueling approval ratings themselves, testifies that race retains its power to shape - and misshape - perception. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Bay Press-Gazette Latest Headlines] Reference
No, the point is that the headline Prince didn't use, like the dueling approval ratings themselves, testifies that race retains its power to shape -- and misshape -- perception. From Wordnik.com. [News & Record Article Feed] Reference
And when he came before the Abbot, waiting if aught had escaped him that he might have gotten and put in his bag, the Abbot was astonied and afeard of the foulness and misshape of him and said unto him: What art thou?. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval People] Reference
The one pillar of its chapter house had given way, and the downrushing ruin had so crushed and distorted it, that thenceforth until some resurrection should arrive, disorder and misshape must appear to it the law of the universe, and loveliness but the passing dream of a brain glad to deceive its own misery, and so to fancy it had received from above what it had itself generated of its own poverty from below. From Wordnik.com. [Malcolm] Reference
"Do not blame me, Dennie, if two men have helped to misshape my life. From Wordnik.com. [A Master's Degree] Reference
You may not force a woman to love you, but no love or lack of love of a woman should misshape the destiny of any man. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
But let it not misshape it. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Garden] Reference
Irks me, whilst lesser spirits so misshape. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891] Reference
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