How To Use Kilter In A Sentence
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Swarm logic tries to comprehend the out-of-kilter, to measure the erratic, and to time the unpredictable.
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That's the reigning voice, the Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem off-kilter irony, Philip K. Dick with a lobotomy, and you better get with the program, the Manhattan-Brooklyn affectedness, or else.
Anis Shivani: Voice in Fiction: A Favorite MFA/Writing Program Shibboleth
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The acceleration of evolutionary processes would take place out of kilter with the parallel evolution required to keep an ecological balance.
Times, Sunday Times
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The narcissism of identity politics is spectacularly out of kilter with the enormity of the challenges the country now faces.
Times, Sunday Times
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When your thyroid stops working properly and doesn't produce enough hormones, chemical reactions all over your body go out of kilter and many bodily functions simply slow down.
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A fossil poacher has invaded the reservation, and because he's stolen certain bones and threatened to kill if he isn't shown more, the world is out of kilter and creeks are drying up.
Stephanie Woodard: Wham! Pow! The CDC Goes to Comic-Con
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The whole world is thrown off kilter because of sin.
Christianity Today
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House of Lords reform is up for debate next year, council elections need reform, the balance of power is out of kilter, but it's all hotch-potch and hand-to-mouth.
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The balance of poignant to funny material is now a bit out of kilter and I have to get into the premise of the whole thing a lot more quickly.
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Intense and prolonged running can throw the ovulatory cycle offkilter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pollution has thrown the Earth's chemistry out of kilter .
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My day today is off kilter from the norm, but still busy.
The Ordinary Day
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Consisting of nine members (including two DJs!), the band are a mixing pot of funk, hip hop, big band jazz, rock and turntablism – all delivered in their energetic and off-kilter style.
What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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these would never fly - and, the strut landing gear on the middle body - the orientation is askew, off "kilter" - so would have problems in landing.
Lovell, Photos, and Maquettes
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Missing more than one night's sleep can throw your body out of kilter.
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In a complicated system, though, tinkering with one component can put another one out of kilter.
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But when the two banks amalgamated, it threw the whole religious balance out of kilter.
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The music plinks along like a drunken gamelan, and random flecks of percussion, which include solitary hand claps, throw the listener even further off kilter.
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As we've recently seen, the more likely result is that the balance between security and usability gets knocked out of kilter.
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But this week his rhythm has been thrown out of kilter.
Times, Sunday Times
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In our modern era, rapaciously expanding industry and a growing population continue to threaten the world's delicate ecological balance, proof of a relationship out of kilter with nature and the elements.
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The wheels of her bicycle were out of kilter after it hit the tree.
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The weather is fantastic, which has kind of thrown my body thermostat off kilter.
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out of kilter
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Missing more than one night's sleep can throw your body out of kilter.
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There are spiralling, bitonal solos, off-kilter rhythms, hypnotic improvisations and a wide variety of traditional instruments — plus scholarly essays.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oddly, Ms. McDonagh simply tries to confuse the issues and the meanings of unavoidable boundaries by reasserting her own specialized lexicon of plausible sounding, but profoundly off-kilter, meanings.
Thinking Anglicans
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Here balances tend to be off kilter in a few places: listen, for example, to the brawny horn intrude on the lovely alternate theme in the first movement.
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Missing more than one night's sleep can throw your body out of kilter.
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They know how everything is connected in circles, and how things get way out of kilter if you pull one person out of a system and elevate or lower them to a different plane than the others.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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The acceleration of evolutionary processes would take place out of kilter with the parallel evolution required to keep an ecological balance.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Eagle plays with psychological scale as well; the increasingly fussy, toytown city skyline starts to look like the out-of-kilter element, not the bird.
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The invisible balance of power will have been thrown off kilter.
Times, Sunday Times
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He treats the material with intelligence, letting the paranoia build through the use of extreme close-ups, off-kilter camera angles and a suitably brooding, doom-laden musical score.
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Crash The Party is a shambolic anthem that recalls the jerky, off-kilter energy of Hot Hot Heat in their prime, while there's a warm glow surrounding the slightly more stripped down melodies of the softly-spoken Let It Rain.
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A good creation, like good jazz, must balance the stable formula with frequent out - of - kilter notes.
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The fashions were a little off-kilter at the Zero + Maria Cornejo: A tunic with one sleeve longer and drapier than the other, droopy jumpsuits and short rompers, a dress with a wide black stripe wrapping around the body and disappearing from view.
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By now the American conciousness is so badly out of kilter that there really can’t be anything other than a degree of difference between Edwards and people like MattY.
Matthew Yglesias » My John Edwards Problem, And At Least Some of Ours
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I like the idea of freewheeling conversation and all I simply want is for civility from those who care about this site. 99% of the time all is well but sometimes it gets out of kilter.
Archive 2009-08-06
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The balance of poignant to funny material is now a bit out of kilter and I have to get into the premise of the whole thing a lot more quickly.
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Her lifestyle was out of kilter with her politics.
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Published on the same day as my own Wall Street Journal article on American Indian installations at several museums including Brooklyn, Johnson's critique seemed to me so perplexingly off-kilter that I felt the need to present an alternate view.
Lee Rosenbaum: Native Americans, Brooklyn-Style: Family-Friendly, Deeply Informative "Tipi" Show
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A rich brew of extended lines, sweeping curves, off-kilter balances, de Schynkel's vocabulary is expressive without being literal.
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This show, held in cavernous, candelabra-strewn space that had a whiff of ruined empire, had plenty of strong, practical pieces: impeccably cut overcoats, running the gamut from deepest navy and ashiest gray to the purest white with black trimming; three piece suits tailored with Browne's signature off-kilter proportions, and a pair of gray corduroy pants strewn with white snowflakes.
Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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He told the Jakarta Globe that off-kilter kiblats were often an issue in quake-hit areas such as Yogyakarta, West Java and West Sumatra and that the government had the money for theodolites, a precision surveying instrument.
Indonesian Muslims turn prayers back to Mecca after 1,000-mile mistake
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Where it is seen by work colleagues to be getting out of kilter, informal controls can be used to restore equilibrium.
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The buoyant mood of his audience was certainly out of kilter with the deep undercurrent of frustration evident elsewhere in Bournemouth this week.
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Sometimes you don't mind a talky cab driver, but I felt off-kilter and contemplative after my stroll so it was perfect.
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Pollution has thrown the Earth's chemistry out of kilter .
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Any other peppy songs on here would turn it into something off-kilter.
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To avoid pulling your cabinets out of kilter as you position them to the wall, shim the gaps at the fastening point (where the stud is located) before screwing the cabinet into place.
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On both sides of the Atlantic, the balance between our lives and our work is dangerously out of kilter.
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As for right now, Eastern Standard Time has left us — migrating over one time zone arena. grin Until our new Daylight Savings Times overlords allow things to go back to kilter, that is.
Things I’m Learning About Traveling « Whatever
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So finely tuned are the top players' games that the slightest change can throw them off kilter.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is appropriate that the one evidence of man in the 46 photographs at Klotz is an off-kilter torii in "Landscape 37" 2010; a torii is a ceremonial Japanese gateway that marks the entrance to a sacred space.
Taking Nature's Refuge
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But it's funny to hear someone saying something so out of kilter with popular opinion and also I think (not so much in this case) quite a necessary thing.
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I was off-kilter from the start - my alarm didn't go off so I slept in.
Impatience: NOT a virtue
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And while this yaw may cause a kayaker to feel off-kilter, a boat designed to turn less easily would be more suited to carrying freight than negotiating Class V rapids or rough seas.
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The song is an off-kilter anthem for wage slaves everywhere, but McCaughey insists it wasn't written from first-hand experience.
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‘Styles out of kilter with the stately dignified face of Malvern,’ another resident exclaimed.
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This has left the company's German operations saddled with costs and productivity way out of kilter with the rest of the industry.
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The acceleration of evolutionary processes would take place out of kilter with the parallel evolution required to keep an ecological balance.
Times, Sunday Times
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She uses the word kilter and not in the out-of sense.
The Good and the Bad...
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In any case there is the war, a hilltop, a huntsman, and a mournful reveille to life - described in sentences so off-kilter and beautiful you don't know whether to cry out for help or just start crying.
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The economic and the political are out of kilter; to use a homely metaphor, it is like bike gears crunching.
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Her sentence is nonetheless unduly harsh and rather stupidly unimaginative, as well as completely out of kilter with community expectations.
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There is room on the list for some wonderful, stoned, noodly incoherence from Helvetia ( "this one-way street doesn't allow bicycles/Oh no") and some moving, outsider, off-kilter folk from Kath Bloom ( "I knew that I would ride with you/If I could").
Readers recommend songs about bicycles: The Results
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Edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, etext format mangling by Kindle Unkiltering.
Making Light: Amazon versus Macmillan
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This show, held in cavernous, candelabra-strewn space that had a whiff of ruined empire, had plenty of strong, practical pieces: impeccably cut overcoats, running the gamut from deepest navy and ashiest gray to the purest white with black trimming; three-piece suits tailored with Browne's signature off-kilter proportions, and a pair of gray corduroy pants strewn with white snowflakes.
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But, you wouldn't know by looking, because he's an abrasive, arrogant, off-kilter man trying to make his idiosyncratic way in academia.
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The acceleration of evolutionary processes would take place out of kilter with the parallel evolution required to keep an ecological balance.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dark grey underskirt was off-kilter, needing to be straightened to hang within the open panel of the black overskirt, the chemise tucked farther into the bodice.
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in good kilter
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The disjointing part of all of this -- and the part where you perhaps begin to think I've gone utterly mad -- is the strange feeling in my brain, a sort of off-kilter feeling, as if I can feel the gears of my brain shifting over.
Winds of Change
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Her lifestyle was out of kilter with her politics.
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A good creation, like good jazz, must balance the stable formula with frequent out - of - kilter notes.
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Wambach, victimized by a steady flow of fouls from the off-kilter Brazilians, got satisfaction in her typical way: with a header into the net.
U.S. women score fast, early and blank Brazil
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The numbers are out of kilter and the balance is wrong.
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Her lifestyle was out of kilter with her politics.
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The acceleration of evolutionary processes would take place out of kilter with the parallel evolution required to keep an ecological balance.
Times, Sunday Times
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The acceleration of evolutionary processes would take place out of kilter with the parallel evolution required to keep an ecological balance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Off-kilter pleats, unexpectedly placed origami folds, and touches like man-tailored pockets in a gown graced the runway of Vera Wang.
The Look of Vera Wang
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The buoyant mood of his audience was certainly out of kilter with the deep undercurrent of frustration evident elsewhere in Bournemouth this week.
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He is out of kilter with the traditional fix-it gombeen politics.
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At one point the temperature was up to 11C; nature has been knocked out of kilter, with adders emerging from hibernation and plants budding.
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Through it all, Chelsea never lets anyone off the hook, even herself, as she delivers page after page of irrevent humor, biting wit, and deliciously off-kilter entertainment.
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‘It seems out of kilter with public opinion, which seems so concerned about future injustice,’ said one prelate.
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Yet I'm totally fascinated by this woman's beguiling blend of baby-voiced vocals, fantastic/poetic wordplay, and off-kilter harp strumming and piano plinking.
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They were first introduced in 1972, by which time atomic and astronomical clocks were already ten seconds out of kilter and all ten were added at once.
The Sun
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Whilst one guitar churns and rasps with melodic chime, the other layers in off kilter leads and rich sustained sounds.
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How many more years of colling will have to pass before they notice that their computer programs and the climate are seriously out of kilter?
The 2006 Hurricane Season « Climate Audit
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The rest of the day was spent consuming massive amounts of diet soda and rediscovering the fact that too much caffeine made her twitchy and a little off kilter.
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She might have ended up the deviser of merely fascinating stories, gizmos and thingamajigs that brought off-kilter delight.
New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis
