Word: slant
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Reviewing the movie for Slant, Aaron Cutler goes further: "The ultimate NFL destination renders the whole thing benevolently sadistic: A white community first removes Michael from other black people, then trains him to beat them up on the field." Well, The Blind Side isn't exactly Gladiator. Oher is being paid well to do what hundreds of thousands of young men dream of. And if he had been left on the streets of Memphis, he might be dead now. But for all the closeups of black-white handshakes, the movie does have a Manichean view of the racial divide...
Apart from its thinly veiled disdain for the Mezquita’s creators, what makes the pamphlet even more of a curiosity is the incongruity between its overtly religious slant and current Spanish attitudes...
Nicholas B. Snow ’09 wasn’t meant for walking. His shoulders slant downwards and his arms hang awkwardly at his sides; the athlete sometimes looks downright goofy. But on a horse, the brawny 23-year-old is all grace, efficiency, and power. Nick happens to be the best player in intercollegiate polo—and he’s willing to share some of his secrets...
...rejects it. The movement views marriage as a civic institution rather than a religious one (this is one distinction between marriages and civil unions), but only so long as government functions from a pro-gay marriage position. Once the cogs of government have turned to an anti-gay marriage slant, gay rights activists cease to be tolerant of the democratic process. Cue the banners decrying opponents as hateful and intolerant. Is this unfortunate divide what activists seek? Certainly that sort of culture of separatist intolerance is what arises when advocates take this approach...
...they have a conservative-tending outlook,” Wisse said. “Or they have chosen to camouflage it far into their careers, so that it would not jeopardize their position.”Wisse and Mansfield also charge that what they see as the liberal slant of the faculty has led the College to omit certain specialties from the curriculum, such as military history and conservative political and religious theory.Departments with a quantitative focus, however, may have a more balanced composition of their faculty.Markus M. Mobius, an associate professor of economics, said there are a number...