It gradually becomes clear to the reader, however, that Christopher's story of his life is riddled with inconsistencies and perhaps outright distortions.

Meanwhile, in the United States, the supermarket checkout papers - notably the Enquirer and Star - were enraging the publicists with weekly headlines based on gross exaggerations and outright distortions.

She had made a gross exaggeration, if not an outright distortion!

But the valid points that Mr. Hertsgaard wants to make about such matters are smothered by his penchant for overstatement and outright distortion - and his consequent unreliability as an observer.

But Turkish Government officials and historians insist that their country is a victim of exaggerations and outright distortions.

Taner Edis has said "there is nothing new in the Yahya material: scientifically negligible arguments and outright distortions often copied from Christian anti-evolution literature, presented with a conservative Muslim emphasis" concluding it "has no scholarly standing whatsoever".

On foreign policy, Mr. Gore is also raising some fair questions about Mr. Bush, though there is a fine line between the license granted politicians who speak in generalities and outright distortion.

Most of the information is the stuff of the lowest-grade tabloids-nothing unusual there, of course-but along with such nonsense are outright distortions of times, places, functions and even identities.

Obviously when I read Wikipedia pages I'm aware it's written by many contributors and therefore has an in-built self-correcting function to remove outright distortion.

The article and interview investigated Heilman and his methods and reported finding "gaps in his knowledge of Jewish matters", and pointed out Heilman's "outright distortions".