If you simply start laying tile along a crooked wall, it will look really crooked by the time you reach the opposite wall, so you need to use a mason's chalk line (a piece of string covered with chalk dust that you can snap into place) to establish easily-removable reference lines.
Her smile was made crooked by swollen lips, and when she spoke, her voice emerged thick, her words slurred.
You almost hear Mr. Altman rhapsodizing over Gould -- look at him move, look at those bowed legs, the face scrunched up in the sun, logic turned crooked by L. A., and all that "It's all right with me" stuff.
It has become an event against which hordes of people – fat people, thin people, people crooked by time and people sprightly as foals, rich people and people in need – test themselves.
The season also includes "crooked," by Catherine Trieschmann, to be directed by Liz Diamond, and, in May, at the World Financial Center, a project called "Corporate Circus," described as featuring people who "eat the glass ceiling and wrestle with strongman Sarbanes-Oxley," among other things.
