twistedness

“For most people, that won’t result in anything approaching those extremes,” he said, “but the tendency is there for all of us to take what is internal twistedness or shame and — instead of taking it to the light of Christ — to project it onto another.... This is not the gospel.”

But Toomey’s aim to curtail the ability of the new leaders of the Treasury Department and the Fed to lend money during a national health crisis belongs in a special category of twistedness.

Bea’s tendency to pathologize Erica’s sexuality — as a “wrongness” she sometimes sees as the result of a troubled upbringing — only highlights de Jong’s refusal to do so, and her recognition that, as with the image of tree and vine, a certain self-defeating twistedness is a natural part of the human condition.

Anthony Jeselnik dabbled in shock for a while before fine-tuning the art of twistedness.

When it comes, though, it is a strange business, combining the heroics of Philadelphia club dancing—the walking on one arm, and the like—with a sort of constriction, a twistedness, as if Harder were moving on shattered limbs.