Word: slantingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...such works as Robert I. Kennedy '40's account of the Cuban Missile Crisis and George F. Kennan's writings on containment. But this dual account of the Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) talks and Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) suffers critically from an almost exclusive focus on, and a slant against, the current Administration's conduct of nuclear arms negotiations. The Soviets are dealt with sparingly, if at all, and one is left with an eerie sensation akin to hearing only one side of an important telephone conversation...
...then there will be a day when the light comes in on a bright, sharp slant-clarity an artist lives for. Even drunks, then, can see the mortar between the bricks-and the place appeals and no longer seems absurd. An absolutely azure sky set off by a single cloud looking as if it were shot up there from a pastry chefs icing gun, that kind of a day. And everywhere houses cling to the cliffsides like cockleburs. Jade plants, looking like so many butter beans on a stick, grow high and thick out here, form hedges, give privacy. (Back...
Jackson's "Hymie" slur and his failure to repudiate Farrakhan caused outrage in several respected quarters. The New Republic, a leading liberal magazine with a strong pro-Israel slant, editorialized that Jackson's "potential for blighting the future of interracial politics and for wounding the Democratic Party now seems great indeed." Carl T. Rowan, the most widely circulated black columnist, warned that Jackson might be stirring a white backlash that would help re-elect Reagan, "in which case Jackson is going to have to face the conscience-searing question: Why, in his stubborn embrace of a few black...
...also criticized Stanley Hoffman, Dilion Professor of the Civilization of France, Stephen Jay Gould, Agassiz Professor of Biology, and other unnamed professors for the political slant of their lectures...
Much about Chernenko suggested that he had stepped into history straight from the Siberian village where he was born on Sept. 24,1911, only seven months and 18 days after Ronald Reagan. His open, almost cherubic face, with frosted brows that slant upward and icy blue eyes set in high Asiatic cheekbones, seemed unpretentious. As the new Soviet leader went through his paces last week, his dark suit appeared to hang awkwardly from his broad, slightly hunched shoulders. He seemed almost relieved after a Kremlin reception to enjoy a few private moments of male camaraderie with his elderly Politburo comrades...