canted

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It is recognised for its stone mullions, canted bay windows, and recessed entrance.

From BBC • May 29, 2024

With its rapid-fire deadpan dialogue, low canted angles, detached, ironic violence and kooky transitional wipes, it feels self-consciously retro, even if it was, at one time, intended to be contemporary.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2024

The soldiers are moving fast, but unlike Æon and Goodchild, their movements are stiff and jerky, their arms canted at unnatural angles; they look like action figures manipulated by a child’s hands.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2023

Like the slightly canted angle that the director Viesturs Kairiss uses throughout the film, this playful conceit offers an off-kilter perspective on the past, emphasizing the tragic absurdity of human brutality.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2023

I canted my head, uncertain that I’d heard him correctly.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu