"What's happening in the press and on television is a severe distortion of glasnost."

The Mercator projection has severe distortion at the poles and northern latitudes.

"It would be a severe distortion of the user-fee concept."

Wide views - around 120 or so - start to exhibit severe distortion near the image borders.

The Democrats argue that this hands-off stance invites "severe distortions of the democratic process."

That is a description that the professionals regard as a severe distortion.

But proponents of the law say the absence of divorce has also produced severe social distortions.

Historically, it was not very successful because it produced images with severe distortion.

Schizophrenics often exhibit severe distortions of language; words acquire new, bizarre definitions.

I suggest that the mirror has severe distortions, and perhaps Harley is seeing things grossly out of proportion.