Our words are distortable things--as in a crooked mirror held up to nature.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Topology'there was a fertile field for intellectual riddlesi Shapes that were infinitely distortable without sacrificing their fundamental qualities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Adept]

I suppose that, at the beginning of this chapter, one had the notion that, by hard scratching through musty old records we might rake up vague, more than doubtful data, distortable into what's called evidence of unrecognized worlds or constructions of planetary size.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference