slantwise

A saxophone solo by Lehman, 44, adds textures that he’s honed on his alto instrument: slantwise methods that he developed in formal training and time on the New York scene.

He said “the building collapsed like a chopstick falling slantwise to the ground” and that it had happened very suddenly.

They were too large to fit into the bed of the wagon, so we perched them slantwise, tilting down into the middle.

Weary of fiction, he expounds on whatever is on his mind, and the very long novel becomes a succession of slantwise essays about gender, sex, and power.

The goblin looked slantwise at Harry, and the lightning scar on Harry’s forehead prickled, but he ignored it, refusing to acknowledge its pain or its invitation.