One might even wonder whether one of the parties has engaged in willful distortion.

In another 1997 article, Sil charged Kripal with "willful distortion and manipulation of sources", and with, while criticising Swami Nikhilananda's translation of the Kathamrita, having "committed similar crime[s] of omission and commission to suit his thesis."

Kripal complained that Tyagananda's questioning of his personal motives for writing the book turned the critique into an ad hominem attack, and denied Tyagananda's charges of "willful distortion and manipulation of sources" and "purposefully deceitful use of citations."

Hillary has been subject to a vicious series of willful distortions.

The continued willful distortion of personal records is the inevitable product of a regime that implicated everyone by forcing collective participation in the crimes it committed as a way to prevent opposition.

The willful distortions of Ms. Fay, and her defender Mr. Taruskin, discredit revisionist musicology in much the same way.

Others lament the willful distortion of the composer's intentions as stated in the scores and especially in the tempo indications.

These willful distortions obscure his useful focus on the potential of the George Washington Bridge bus station to serve more trans-Hudson commuters.

Robert Davis of Paste implied the film is an example of "how the ignorance of, or willful distortion of, basic scientific methods is used to manipulate public opinion."

Ezekiel said that McCaughey's euthanasia claims were a "willful distortion of my record".