Word: askew
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...might expect of any news broken in an actual newsroom, the whole thing is captured on grainy video. One reporter holds a digital recorder; a photographer snaps away. The executives wear shirtsleeves with ties askew. When Swartz, looking not unlike a man condemned, says, "At the end of the sale process, we do not see ourselves publishing the P-I in print," he has to raise his voice to be heard over unanswered phones and garbled bursts from the police radio...
...little more dignity in sharing a couple of cocktails, some caviar and a good cigar on a yacht with Katherine Hepburn and Nunnally Johnson than there is in washing down your sugar-free seventy-fifth birthday cake with a can of Diet Pepsi and a SpongeBob SquarePants hat askew on your head...
Crossing the bay, the wetlands are dotted with a sofa here, a plastic garbage can there and suddenly along the causeway, a flotilla of beached, battered boats appears, awkwardly stuck in the median, wedged against highway signs, land-bound, askew and sad. Capturing the wholesale destruction of a hurricane is difficult. We learned that with Hurricane Katrina where the images, no matter how awful, were insufficient measured against the reality. The most overpowering sensation is the smell, a stench that seems to imprint itself on the brain's memory bank, suddenly wafting back hours after you have left the scene...
...billion in assets, the firm's filing is the largest in history. Throughout the day, as media crews hovered around the entrance to the firm's Midtown Manhattan headquarters, some of Wall Street's best and brightest trickled out onto the pavement, their faces crestfallen and their ties yanked askew...
...Dart banked toward the dusty village to perform a census of red vehicles. As the pilot headed back toward the thicket, his sharp eye spotted a flash of silver under some trees in a dry wash. Turning for a closer look, he found a clean, late-model sedan, slightly askew, apparently left in haste. Barely 10 a.m., yet it seemed the entire sector--a classic Western landscape of rimrock, saguaro and sage--was already swimming with fishy activity...