I looked around briefly at the mirrored walls, my own reflection distorted beyond recognition by the rounded contours, by the light pouring up from below.

Wally watches their reflections, strangely distorted in the tram window, until the elderly woman sitting behind them leaves.

She stared at the large TV screen and saw her own reflection distorted through her tears.

But Vivian, who had come up with us as far as the cave entrance, clutched my arm and murmured that she could see them, like transparent reflections, distorted by an uneven surface of thin glass.

She looked at Fergus's dim reflection, distorted in the glass, then tried to re-focus on her own image.

Passing his reflection, distorted in a rain-streaked win-dow, Ikusa was appalled at his tears.

Their reflections, distorted by the curved acrylic nose, stared back at them, doppelgängers suspended above in an outlandish electric light fixture.

The body was reflected fully, the reflection distorted by the angle of the mirror.

His reflection, distorted by the curving side of the polished sugarbowl, smiled back at him.

It is not hard to imagine the two candidates standing on opposite sides of the mirror, looking at reflections distorted by politics and circumstances but in many ways the same.