Everybody expected Owen Farrell, immaculate with his place-kicking all evening, to point at the posts and go through his routines, those strange tilt-headed stares at the ball.
The most popular theory about how the moon formed--as a result of an apocalyptic collision between Earth and another object--always seemed to have a fatal flaw: It couldn't explain the moon's strange, tilted orbit.
At the same time, she continues to develop her own formal lexicon: elephant trunks and other strange proboscises, tilted planes within planes, lines that abruptly swerve or boomerang.
Helen Grieco's strange post "Tilting at Windmills" (Huff Post Green, February 20 , 2013 takes a lot of cheap shots at Drakes Bay Oyster Farm.
In most countries their lead would be regarded as a healthy one, but Britain's strange electoral arithmetic tilts the playing field against the Conservatives, and a victory that once looked certain now merely looks possible.
Instead, they say, a planet with the mass of 10 Earths has shepherded the six objects into their strange elliptical orbits, tilted out of the plane of the solar system.
The best of the character dances are for Eros, who performs a thousand marvels: strange little hops and tilts, Sufi-esque spins, dainty Harlequin jumps landing in deep, egg-laying pliés.
He tilts his head, adopts a strange smile and does the voice.
For a few moments, the split-screen showed the two gods of Wimbledon simultaneously seeming to succumb to whatever strange voodoo had settled over the grounds: a tilt in the earth, a fungus in the air.
