Often in pairs, they look like shorebirds atilt or modernist sculpture.
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Commentators are looking for bearings in what appears to be a universe atilt.
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Outside, the image on the sign — a blue-and-white porcelain bowl with chopsticks atilt — was left untouched.
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The lowered lamp, its shade atilt, threw goonish shadows, revealing the room's chaos—Stolarsky's shed robe flung across the arm of the sofa, ice cubes melting on the countertop.
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It is from this hole that the diabolical Richard first scrambles into view, eyes gleaming and smile atilt, to carry out his duties as Death's dispatcher in chief in this poetically exact interpretation of "Richard III" by Garry Hynes.
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Next along the timeline is "Giralda" (246), a bona fide "soak-stain" oil painting whose explosive, earth-toned composition includes a sketchy depiction of the Giralda bell tower of the Seville Cathedral in Seville, Spain (here rendered as atilt as its Pisan counterpart, though it doesn't lean in real life).
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He landed neatly on > the polo field in a nearby estate at about 5 p.m., climbed out, chatted > awhile with Prospect Campbell and a cluster of friends. Presently he and > Campbell took off smartly, cleared a fence, went atilt between two tall > trees, and passed from sight. Then there was a rending crash, a smear of > flame, silence.
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Placing a parapet, a low wood or stone sill or ledge, between the subject and the viewer is a common feature of early Renaissance Italian portraits, as a useful way of solving "the principal compositional problem" of portraits at less than full-length, how "to justify the cutting of the figure".Campbell, 69 By having the large sleeve project slightly beyond the parapet, Titian "subverts" the usual barrier effect, bringing the picture space into "our space" as viewers.Langmuir, 163 The turning pose, with the head slightly atilt and an eyebrow appearing raised, exactly halfway across the composition, adds life and drama.Penny, 82; Campbell, 95; Hartt, 592 The "broad spiral motion in depth of the head and arm" suggests that Titian had some awareness of contemporary developments in painting in Florence.
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