Mackenzie's family, she assumed, judging by the way the children shared both his and the woman's features: a certain slant to the nose here, a dimple there.

A certain slant of light was Edward Hopper's thing.

By constructing a new language with a certain philosophical slant, the Unity had tried to make it harder for people to be bad citizens.

Not that I cared much for peacemongers, but really, there's a certain slant of cruelty that breaks up the boundaries of good taste.

But once there, her eye catches a certain slant of light in the setting sun and she sees a glimpse of the future.

Any director knows the evocative power of an object or a landscape (a certain slant of light on a street corner, a plate of half-eaten food on a table).

His title is intended to lend a certain European religious ministerial slant to the character, the name itself is actually the Romanised title for the Greek Hades.

I regret to say that this report has a certain ideological slant.

A peculiar coppery cast enlivened her brown eyes, and in a certain slant of light, her angry glare could flash as red as blood.