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These lyrics, sung throughout Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s imperishable 1979 musical, are heeded assiduously by director Kent Nicholson in a solid South Coast Repertory revival that puts the twistedly macabre story before all else.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2019

But then, like a sunbeam pushing through clouds, came bop music, an almost twistedly positive Chicago hip-hop sound that came with ecstatic dances and relentless cheer, serving as a counterbalance to drill’s nihilism.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2015

For the twistedly acerbic tone that yet somehow manages to create empathy for its psychopathic loner, see also Tom Tykwer's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.

From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2010

Perhaps the most vivid example is the Symbionese Liberation Army which grew twistedly out of the peaceful Black Cultural Association, a five-year-old California prisoners' group.

From Time Magazine Archive

Looking back upon her youthful infatuation for Glenn Mitchell, she smiled at herself twistedly.

From The Purple Heights by Oemler, Marie Conway