Word: slantingly
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This argument misses the point entirely. There is no such thing as a good stereotype; if someone forms a preconceived notion of your abilities and manner from the tone of your skin or the slant of your eyes, you are dehumanized. You become an object, mass produced with certain standard characteristics...
...wanted beige or off- white, he says, because "neutral-colored walls go with any colors in the paintings." But the curators insisted on stronger tones. The dispute grew so acrimonious that one curator is reported by several observers to have referred repeatedly to Pei, behind his back, as "that slant-eyed little Chinaman...
...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...