Actually, they saw the world through the distorted lens of their specialized knowledge, thus failing to grasp the larger picture.
He saw her through a distorted lens.
She felt as if she were viewing the world through a distorted lens.
It is the world seen through a wide-angle lens - grander, weirder, more colorful and more distorted than reality.
Science is a 'lower priority subject' especially when viewed through the distorted lens of selection examinations.
Tsai also commented that "There's this over-the-top, socially distorted lens through which we're telling these gang stories.
Terror made them suspicious and suspicion sees everything through distorted lenses.
Its wisdom needs to be recognized, respected, and understood by us, and not merely viewed through the distorted lenses of our illusions about it.
But it mostly holds up a distorted lens through which everything in the museum world seems to depend on the director.
Before he joined 1st Security, the agent's perception of detective work was drawn from the distorted lens of television.