Sentence examples for crooked view from inspiring English sources

He was really smart, and he really knew how to look at life with kind of a crooked view.

By Virginia Hamilton Adair The New Yorker, October 16 , 1995P. 163 When we came to the country place of Jack Morpurgo I crooked View Article By Rivka Galchen By Zoë Heller By Jia Tolentino By Malcolm Gladwell.

He said, citing Kant's dictum: "Our views of the newspapers depend upon our own views, and they are as crooked as the crooked timber of humanity from which no straight thing was ever made".

In discussions about why the world is suddenly confronted with a food crisis, David Rieff ("The struggle for daily bread," Views, Oct. 15) and Asit Biswas and Leong Ching ("That crooked carrot is also food," Views, Oct. 15) have overlooked as a contributing cause the agricultural policies of China, a country that needs to feed 20 percent of the world's population.

How crooked is too crooked?

By Alastair Reid The New Yorker, November 13 , 1954P. 40 On the crooked arm of Columbus, on his cloak View Article By Miranda Carter By Amos Barshad By Jia Tolentino By Doreen St. Félix.

If so chimps, why not crows?" The problem may be one of likeness: we look at chimpanzees and it's like viewing ourselves in a slightly crooked mirror.

Eventually, the kind of city views Robert sometimes photographed, of crooked, deadend streets with buildings whispering of bygone times, would become Atget's stock in trade.

Every bead of sweat, flap of the tongue, crooked tooth and quiver of the lip is on view.

No diapers in the wilderness!" A small house was found, there in the glorious dying mining town, on a hill, with views that were shockingly symphonic from the crooked front porch.

Crooked Timber posts a quick argument for why a Keynesian view of the global economy is unavoidable.