Reggie Watts

I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.

American Comedian

Howard Gardner

The accumulation and cross-generational transmission of wealth in the United States has gone way too far. When a young hedge-fund manager can take home a sum reminiscent of the gross national product of a small country, something is askew.

American Psychologist

David Bowie

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

English Musician

Robert Gottlieb

You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.

American Writer

William Least Heat-Moon

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.

Jason Segel

I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. 'You have to have a particular taste to want to be around me. I have a slightly askew view.

American Actor

Daniel Bruhl

I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

German Actor

Demi Moore

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

Actress

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

Use 'askew' to describe something that's physically not straight, often accidentally.

Physical Misalignment

'Askew' often suggests a scene of disorder or chaos that's visually apparent.

Suggest Disarray

While 'askew' is appropriate in many contexts, it carries a casual, conversational tone.

Casual Tone

In art and design, 'askew' can describe an intentional style that is off-balance.

Visual Aesthetic

An 'askew' item can suggest carelessness or a rushed act, like dressing in a hurry.

Subtle Indications

An 'askew' appearance might reflect one's mood, such as frustration or indifference.

Indicative of Mood

 but -- I speak of the life force -- her hair was askew. She wasn't about to make up for this occasion. And she was sitting there surrounded by books, and her most interesting possession she felt at that moment

Marc Pachter: The art of...

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