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  • His pride in her was distorted by his anxious, lopsided grin.
  • When he played poorly, which happened too often, the Bears lost, often in lopsided fashion. Around the Pac-10 Conference
  • His face wore a lopsided grin, and he crouched down near the fire and set to work upon the other shoe.
  • He waited for what seemed to be hours before the priest came up the creaking, lopsided ladder.
  • Be it Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad or any of the state capitals, development is lopsided and unplanned.
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  • Stuff which is rather too much for most people, is an acquired taste which appeals to the lopsided and idiosyncratic. Times, Sunday Times
  • He gave me a lopsided grin, and walked into his room, shutting the door after him.
  • The Nepali cap, with its peak offset from the center, giving it a slightly lopsided look, completes the outfit.
  • She imagines his brown hair spiky and lopsided, like the last time she saw him.
  • The passing was more incisive, the pace picked up and the balance of the team no longer looked lopsided. Times, Sunday Times
  • Casey glanced at me now and shot me a lopsided, sheepish grin.
  • He gave me his famous lopsided smile and I suddenly knew what it felt like to be one of those girls who swooned at the sight of him.
  • And this one-sided tale of woe fuels a lopsided view of youth - as well as public agitation for still more draconian laws and punishments. Times, Sunday Times
  • Such a lopsided result defies the laws of probability and suggests something sinister at work.
  • I read on your website that one in 20 women has lopsided breasts.
  • Such a lopsided half-time score for St Johnstone was difficult to fathom.
  • Mrs. Howard fingered the lopsided gold triangle that graced her moiré collar. SORT OF RICH
  • But the sight of Benvenuto's evil lopsided countenance staring at her out of Tonino's arms left her with almost nothing to say. THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA
  • He kept them there just a second too long before dropping them to his sides with a lopsided grin.
  • Some fine forward play and lax marking contributed to this lopsided score line.
  • Lopsided and vulnerable, he tried to climb the barrage and get to the second balloon.
  • The lopsided load on the lorry looked dangerous.
  • Many people were warning of the lopsided shape of growth throughout his boom years. Times, Sunday Times
  • The animal threw up its forelegs and plunged ahead in a frantic lopsided gallop, kicking like a donkey, dragging the carriage from one side of the highway to the other.
  • Sliding without apparent effort into the baggy matrix of Apatow-ness, where every character — however half-assedly written — is allowed his or her lopsided human value, Brand played a sharp-tongued, oversexed cheeky-monkey rock star with the accent of a Blakean chimney sweep. Brit Wit
  • he smiled lopsidedly
  • I never saw what possession percentage was but it had to lopsided.
  • We've all seen it: a mother crouched on the floor, arms outstretched, cooing to her baby as he lopsidedly plops first one hand, then the other, on the carpet, dragging his chubby knees behind him.
  • But it does restrict our attacking options slightly and leaves us looking slightly lopsided. The Sun
  • He extended his winning streak to six rounds with a lopsided win over Scotty Cannon before being bushwhacked by Capps in round two.
  • Many people were warning of the lopsided shape of growth throughout his boom years. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ding Lu holds that Chinese new poetry, which has experienced a lopsided development of free verse, is caught between two horns of dilemma.
  • The lopsided vote for Libya, including all those cowardly European abstentions, speaks volumes about the UN's character.
  • Saint Joseph's its first loss in lopsided fashion in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Ten Conference tournament. USATODAY.com
  • But the sight of Benvenuto's evil lopsided countenance staring at her out of Tonino's arms left her with almost nothing to say. THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA
  • While the lopsided score may look discouraging to Warrior fans, it is important to consider the bevy of national calibre talent that McMaster has when passing final judgment.
  • A pair of glasses, with large rims and thick lenses, rested lopsidedly along his nose, and he adjusted them to see Jennifer more clearly when he stopped.
  • It's a natural reaction when cutting things, but what happens if you do is the dough twists slightly and rises lopsided. Times, Sunday Times
  • If your face suddenly goes lopsided, there are two possibilities. The Sun
  • Indiana beat Washington in overtime in both teams 'season opener Oct. 31, but this one was pretty lopsided from the outset. USATODAY.com
  • A lopsided basketball goal was a good ten yards away from the person who Lazarus recognized as Sam.
  • The lopsided load on the lorry looked dangerous.
  • The leftovers tasted great, but each time we removed the trifle from the fridge the layers had sunk further, as the ladyfingers absorbed more of the sauce and cream, which had additionally deflated, thereby creating a sunken, lopsided look. Blueberry Lemon Tiramisu Trifle
  • The article presents a somewhat lopsided view of events.
  • The innings have a curiously lopsided look to them because of a string of low individual scores. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even so, the ratio of native to non-native speakers of English is a lopsided one to three.
  • His suit had shoulders that made him look lopsided.
  • In fact, Yacob was pretty certain there was a bit of extra padding there, accounting for the slightly lopsided look the woman seemed to have - a little bit like a hunchback.
  • But it is surely unidiomatic, as a Google Fight reveals; a search through Google News shows an even more lopsided tally, 200:1 in favor of “set them up” rather than 20:1. The Volokh Conspiracy » Trying Too Hard? [UPDATE: Or Maybe Just Making a One-Off Mistake]
  • While you might have people that are largely satisfied w/a temporary/contract role, it is a problem of disclosure and a problem incentivized by the lopsided negotiation ability disfavoring applicants. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Public Sector Unions
  • The church was being given a taste of how the world works - its lopsidedness, its patchy rhythm of muchness and emptiness, of affluence and desolation.
  • A lopsided car would be a car with a higher load on one side than on the other.
  • The lopsided star was a little bigger than my palm and silver-ish in color.
  • This investigation showed that the apparently even development was only an extreme case of lopsidedness, the continuation of the "chorda," which gives rise to the spine, being at the top of the upper fin, and both fins being developed on the same side of it. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1
  • South Korea trade deal will succeed only if it addresses what they called the dangerously lopsided trade in automotive vehicles. U.S. Lawmakers Warn on Korea Trade
  • We saw this strange lopsided shift," says lead author Matthew Walker, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of California-Berkeley. The Sleepless Elite
  • The passing was more incisive, the pace picked up and the balance of the team no longer looked lopsided. Times, Sunday Times
  • The latest example of this hysteria is a badly-lopsided Reuters article that contains the following gem, unattributed to any source.
  • Once the bridge was negotiated, I saw the slow rise of a hill, carefully manicured on both sides of a narrow walkway with procrustean green fields, dotted in places by crabapple trees that attracted fleets of frenzied wasps when the season fermented in sick sweetness, falling fruit mashed muted viridian in streaks and lopsided buttons across the sidewalk. Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
  • Yet the damage done by his grotesquely lopsided report vastly outweighs the gravity of the offence.
  • Iverson's Cheney Pinata is a lopsidedly bouncy Latin piece, with the pianist splicing complex, arrhythmic lines into spaces they shouldn't fit.
  • One of the most noticeable things about Hockney is his pleasing smile. It is lopsided, wry, infectious; it makes him seem permanently amused at the world, at himself; and it gives him an air of naive amiability.
  • When he donned his stiff fatigues, his lopsided gait and smiling eyes stood out among his hard-faced brethren.
  • I tilted my head and gave him a sideward smirk; well it was more of a confused lopsided grin.
  • Portions of the cerebral commissures, which link the left and right hemispheres, appear to be larger in women, and their brains may function in a less lopsided manner than men's.
  • The conical shape of a volcano became visible at first, its top slightly lopsided from the last time it erupted.
  • We won by a lopsided score.
  • The stories are compiled from various sources however a delicious and unsettling theme that runs through a lot of the work is the exploration of young women compromising themselves in lopsided relationships with uncaring powerful men. What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
  • To this day, chewing food is difficult and quite embarrassing in public, my smile is lopsided and my speech is affected. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Sultans delivered a decisive blow in the second inning with seven runs and cruised to a lopsided victory.
  • The corner of his mouth turned up in a lopsided smile. Times, Sunday Times
  • There she goes, sails set an 'full rigged, an' Mark Tapkins followin 'on ahind like a little, lopsided tug after an ocean steamer! Janet of the Dunes
  • While the lopsided score may look discouraging to Warrior fans, it is important to consider the bevy of national calibre talent that McMaster has when passing final judgment.
  • There was something odd about her too-a slight stumble in her walk, a lopsided look to her face.
  • It seems to me that different kinds of non-national cultural ecologies have now become possible but have not been fully realised, or have been played out in lopsided ways because of the persistence of the nation, and of empire. Am I an americanist? : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • He was a bit taller than me, with dark brown spiked hair, freckles, a lopsided smile and strange amber eyes.
  • He leaned back, folded his arms across his broad chest, and gave his sister a lopsided grin.
  • He had the same lopsided grin he sported to make people laugh at his antics.
  • Linesmen: SummaryBack to topDevils jump on Thrashers early in lopsided 5-1 win USATODAY.com
  • Now one thing that might work in his advantage in California is there's an even more lopsided margin on the Democratic side.
  • In the second half, though, the lopsided nature of proceedings threatened to become an embarrassment.
  • A common complaint issued by food snobs is that supermarket fruit and veggies is all standardised - the stores won't stock lopsided peppers or mean-looking garlic, and it is all a bit chilled and insipid.
  • He would, I think, have justified his lopsided perspective on the grounds that he was a biologist, not a historian.
  • She caught sight of the old tyre-swing hanging lopsided from an outstretched branch.
  • So the entire world pretty much doesn't care if they fight every day, just as long as the frag count for each side doesn't become too lopsided or uneven.
  • Cat went rigid, a new awareness of this quivering mountain of a woman in her soiled apron and heavy wooden clogs, her frizzy, hennaed hair pinned in a lopsided mess beneath a wrinkled cap. Earl of Durkness
  • In other cases, growing trees had their branches cut regularly on one side, because they leaned on to private property; the trees grew up lopsided and leaned far on to the roads.
  • Fiorentina had a lopsided forward line with two strikers and an outside-right. Times, Sunday Times
  • When Grandpa wasn’t a grandpa and was just instead a small-fry, hobbledehoy boy blowing out thirteen dripping candles on a lopsided cake, his savvy hit him hard and suddenjust like it did to fish that day of the backyard birthday party and the hurricaneand the entire state of Idaho got made. Excerpt: Savvy by Ingrid Law
  • Dogs don't necessarily have to be perfect to be beautiful - a lopsided ear or wonky smile just adds to their personality. The Sun
  • In order to install the lopsided majorities, more Republicans have to serve on multiple committees.
  • CT scans of 50-million-year-old fossils have revealed an intermediate species between primitive flatfishes with eyes on both sides of their heads and the modern, lopsided versions, which include sole, flounder, and halibut. The Panda's Thumb: Dave Thomas Archives
  • The resulting lopsided casualty counts have a great deal to do with this skill imbalance.
  • And this one-sided tale of woe fuels a lopsided view of youth - as well as public agitation for still more draconian laws and punishments. Times, Sunday Times
  • She quickly brings her arms stiffly to her sides and flashes a lopsided smile, her heavy jaw clenched.
  • Lopsided, and eventually became seen.
  • Because there persists a deep-rooted socio-cultural norm that defines the "ideal worker" as someone who can be controlled, who doesn't challenge the status quo and has few entangling commitments that distract from a lopsided focus on work. Kathie Lingle: Initiating Tough Work-Life Conversations?
  • According to the findings published in ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences’ journal, a lopsided face is less attractive to both Hadza and Britons, so that the age-old idea that beauty is in the eye of the beholder is a romantic myth. Study: Symmetry is Sexy | Impact Lab
  • Henry Roediger, a memory expert at Washington University in St. Louis, said that cryptomnesia is partially caused by the lopsidedness of our memories: it's easier to remember information than it is to remember its source. You Didn’t Plagiarize, Your Unconscious Did
  • In the most recent operation surgeons had to pull her leg down by an inch because her pelvis had moved, which gave her a lopsided walk.
  • He was about seventy, with suspenders over a short-sleeved shirt and a lopsided bow tie.
  • Simon adjusted his lopsided top hat, tilting it even more than it had been in the first place.
  • Despite all these safeguards and its lopsided superiority over local opposition, the Machine never fails to run scared.
  • Schaub threw five interceptions and was sacked eight times in lopsided losses at Pittsburgh and Tennessee. USATODAY.com
  • The business end of the rugby league season starts tonight, and, if the market framers and punters are right, then get ready for a couple of lopsided matches.
  • But his tender eyes and lopsided cross section of teeth make her think just maybe. THE SAVAGE GIRL
  • After struggling offensively in lopsided losses to Florida and Clemson, Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier decided to start quarterback Stephen Garcia, a highly regarded redshirt freshman from Tampa who was the centerpiece of his recruiting class in 2007. USATODAY.com
  • He was incredibly thin - but he still retained his lopsided grin. Times, Sunday Times
  • Also, many filibusters are solely used for delay, including for nominations that are never really debated on and result in lopsided votes. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Marshall Field v. Clark Preclude a Challenge to “Deem and Pass”?
  • Such a lopsided assertion that you shouldn't rest players can be contradicted by considering any of the many times United rested players and still won.
  • The effectiveness and consequentiality of said lying was even more lopsidedly sinistral. The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Fairness Doctrine History:
  • Lopsided she smiled as she wrapped masking tape around her hand to snatch naps from the nubby lemon sleeves.
  • Courtesy of the Associated Press: I have left some paragraphs out and moved others around, but the story -- a double-sided, morally lopsided narrative -- needs no further elaboration. Archive 2009-12-01
  • Lopsidedness as such, therefore, was not to be regarded as an embryological character in ancient fishes; what might be regarded as such was the absence of a bony sheath to the end of the "chorda" found in the more developed fishes. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
  • None of us can help the way we look and it is regrettable that facial tics and lopsided lips affect the way we see our political leaders. The Sun
  • It's so revealing that being even nowhere near pro-gun lopsided is now so often seized upon as being somehow akin to treason. ZUMBOMANIA, PART II: David E.
  • I see developing trees with only two main growth arteries where one has been lopped off, leaving an odd-looking lopsided thing.
  • They showed up for a home date with Miami on December 12 and sleepwalked through a lopsided loss.
  • Bill Livingston of The Plain Dealer: "When Chicago's Joakim Noah barked at James in another lopsided Cavs victory Friday night, rebuking James for dancing on the sideline and disrespecting the Bulls, it was a case of the bratwurst calling the knockwurst a hotdog. ESPN.com - TrueHoop
  • I watch as he tilted his head to one side giving me that same infuriating lopsided grin of his.
  • His head was hanging on by only a thread now and the stitching of his mouth had come unpicked as well, giving him a lopsided sneer. THE EXECUTION
  • Lopsided and vulnerable, he tried to climb the barrage and get to the second balloon.
  • The passing was more incisive, the pace picked up and the balance of the team no longer looked lopsided. Times, Sunday Times
  • John Candotti had once waded into a street fight simply because he thought the odds were too lopsided.
  • Graham allowed himself a small, lopsided grin at that thought.
  • Even so, the ratio of native to non-native speakers of English is a lopsided one to three.
  • This case is particularly strange, and the law is draconian and lopsided. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was about seventy, with suspenders over a short-sleeved shirt and a lopsided bow tie.
  • He was about seventy, with suspenders over a short-sleeved shirt and a lopsided bow tie.

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