The phrase "a sort of left" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in informal contexts to describe a vague or ambiguous direction or position, but clarity is important.
Example: "He took a sort of left at the intersection, but I couldn't tell if it was the right way."
Alternatives: "a kind of left" or "a type of left".
"He's a sort of left-of-centre foetus," McEwan told a Guardian Live event on Monday.
Whoever designed the dead pedal -- a sort of left-side footrest -- deserves a raise.
GVA Williams of New Jersey analyzed statistics and trends in crucial submarkets and issued a sort of left-handed compliment.
He became a darling of the city's society set, a fixture of the downtown fashion scene and a sort of left-field rock icon.
Nonetheless, if I were his training priest I'd say his sermon was more a collection of points, a sort of left-leaning shopping list.
ON THE eve of his party's annual conference, which began on September 18th, Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, insisted that the Liberal Democrats had no future as "a sort of left-wing conscience of the Labour Party".
I suppose you could argue that good ideas occur on a sort of left-right bell curve and that, therefore, an idea is statistically more likely to be located at the top of the curve, i.e., in the middle.
Insouciance about deficits is in fashion among Democrats, too, including some who have embraced a dubious new concept known as "modern monetary theory," a sort of left-wing analog to supply-side that holds, essentially, that the United States can engage in unlimited deficit spending financed by the Federal Reserve.
Vital to the fabric of DeepMind are what he calls his "glue minds": fellow polymaths who can sufficiently grasp myriad scientific areas to "find the join points and quickly identify where promising interdisciplinary connections might be, in a sort of left-field way".
