be distorted
Examples
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.