Word: slant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...never understood that question. Is it referring to my views on life, to the slant with which I approach the world? Or is it referring purely to where I was born, where I grew...
...America to reporters aboard his plane. He took the occasion to reiterate one of his primary preoccupations: the prevalence of violence around the world, including the U.S. Said he: "To have this phenomenon in the United States, the most progressive country in the world!" He blamed it on the slant of the media...
...melted away. This doesn't mean that his landscapes are more "expressive," only that they radiate a greater sense of freedom. "The presence in a painting," he once wrote, "is like the presence a child feels and recognizes in things and the way they relate, like a doorknob, the slant of a roof . . . Art does not succeed by compelling you to like it, but by making you feel this presence in it. . . ((which)) can be impersonal." There is enough of this "presence" in Porter's work to place it among the finest landscape painting ever done by an American...
...department born of activism, one which had for years a pronounced political slant and voice through its chair, Afro-American Studies is under unique pressures to manifest an outlook, to students and colleagues...
There is some sentimentality in this, but it is lightly, genially stated. And it is balanced with a sharp comic shrewdness. Reitman has succeeded in recruiting all sorts of prominent people -- ranging from sitting Senators to the McLaughlin Group to Oliver Stone, contributing a paranoid slant on good- heartedness -- to satirize their own and, more important, the media's self- importance. They impart to Dave just the topical edge it requires...