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The angle that decides whether light flatters or betrays you.
means A sloping angle or direction, and by extension a particular biased point of view on something.
from From Middle English 'slenten' meaning to slide or slip sideways, likely related to Scandinavian words like the Swedish dialectal 'slinta,' meaning to slip or glide. The physical sense of tilting came first; the figurative sense of a biased 'angle' on a story or opinion is a natural, later extension — a slant is simply a perspective that has slipped away from straight-on.
- journalism sense
- bias dressed up as perspective
- typography cousin
- italic means slanted in Italian
- physics use
- slope equals rise over run, always
- supreme court case
- 2017 ruling protected disparaging trademarks