refract

The stories are splintered and refracted, the progressions coiled.

It offers the kind of refracted, wormhole narrative that generates comparisons to David Mitchell—deserved in this case.

Her encounters with Seán—the supposed love of her life, as she frequently states—are hazy, refracted through money and commodity.

And in all that refracted glamour there's an empathetic eye, a sadness that speaks.

Attacking Obama and his policies is reliably refracted as racism.

The rays of the sun are refracted on the light grey sandy carpet, and are reflected back with scorching power.

Hewn out of the solid rock, a smooth and glistening pavement refracted those noon-day beams like burnished metal.

Light from the picture is refracted within the eyes, forming an image on each retina.

Meanwhile the first days after Deering's departure wore a soft, refracted light like the radiance lingering after sunset.

In the past, however, light refracted and unrefracted has been a constant stimulus to responsive actions.