The suspended bells fall into two main categories: those with a straight handle plus a lug at the top, which are suspended slantwise on a wooden frame, are called yongzhong; those having a ring that allows for vertical suspension are called niuzhong.
The gravestone stood slantwise, most of Aaron's side broken off and lying face down in leaf mulch.
One would sooner defile the flag than mock the sticker or what it represents by, say, putting it on upside down or slantwise, or scratching ironic quotation marks around "College" or "University".
His voice still carries the slantwise intonations of working-class south Brooklyn.
At Jenner, where the Russian River makes its slantwise junction with the ocean, I stopped at the inn.
Though he doesn't experience the catastrophe, his story is at the heart of the book, and this is typical of Mandel's roving, slantwise focus.
But the spire has been surpassed, for height and force, by a structure that soars slantwise some 400 metres into the air, and prods the clouds like an accusing finger.
A small boy has obtained too small a potato, onto which he has put a pair of big ears, slapped on a black plastic hairpiece, and a mouth, which he has stuck on slantwise, because his mother is shouting that his tea's ready.
He shows us to ourselves slantwise, through the eyes of a dog, a cat, an alien, or a family of relatively domesticated vampires.
Earlier, he gave younger readers something similar, taking a slantwise, multi-lensed look at the capital in Un Lun Dun.
Art as labour; art as an investigation of labour; the changing nature of labour; conditions of labour as a sign of global inequality: all are notions taken on – in more or less straightforward or slantwise fashion – by artists whom Enwezor has invited.
