Sentence examples for a certain slant from inspiring English sources
Simple things: A certain slant of light coming through a window on a winter's afternoon.
"There's a certain Slant of light,/ Winter Afternoons - / That oppresses, like the Heft/ Of Cathedral Tunes".
BOSTON, April 30 — A certain slant of light was Edward Hopper's thing.
She was her favourite poet in Emily Dickinson: A Certain Slant of Light (1978).
In an edgy essay, "A Certain Slant: A Brief History of Hollywood Yellowface," Robert B. Ito offered biting reviews of Caucasian actors playing Asians.
I've tried to secret a certain slant of humor (if dark) in virtually all of my writing, but few readers notice — it's in the mode of Aubrey Beardsley "secreting the obscene" in his drawings.
Campaign donations – or even voter registration data – aren't the final say on whether a university has a certain political slant, but it is food for thought about how welcome views across the political spectrum are to a campus.
"Not even Emily Dickinson didn't care about people not understanding her," he said (sounding as oblique as Dickinson's "certain slant of light").
Photo credit: Wenjie Zhang A Certain Slant of Light via Flickr.
There is a big leap between calling journalists unfairly slanted against a certain party and calling them liars.
Neither can "Slant Board" escape a certain aesthetic allure, despite this determined functionality and the nonpresentational manner of the performers.
