aslant

Example Sentences

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The lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming ending of Quichotte, that “sane man,” is the aslant answer to the question of what is real and what is unreal.

From New York Times

My father’s exuberant, expansive mind; the comic, necessary, generous-hearted compromises of my parents’ marriage; the origins of my own vocation—they are all there in the Stack, aslant among the books, those other bindings.

From The New Yorker

We pass through a pink-wallpapered hall where framed family photos hang aslant over an empty fireplace and enter another room lined with more pictures of smiling men, women, and children.

From Salon

Even for readers who prefer the sensation of moving ahead to moving aslant, “Texas Blood” is a rich journey.

From New York Times

Raban’s writing has grown infinitely more sophisticated since then, but its leitmotifs – struggles with overbearing authority, a search for refuge in a world that seems aslant – have remained.

From The Guardian