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  • Its plain white with some nondescript piping and some prosaic rosesperfectly centered, not offkilter, not funky glam.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • Its plain white with some nondescript piping and some prosaic rosesperfectly centered, not offkilter, not funky glam.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • Metronomic, offkilter, teeming with images and ideas, The Fall are that rare thing: brilliant and unique.

    FallNet - the punk foot of nose 1998

  • Kennedy was offkilter after cruising through the first inning, stranding runners in scoring position over the next two innings before really getting into trouble in the fourth.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • 1 It does not require any extra IQ points to figure out that the WH had a ton of motives to go after Wilson, particularly during summer 2003 with no WMD and a war spinning offkilter.

    Firedoglake » Does Fred Hiatt Even Read the Washington Post? 2006

  • It’s not five-beat rhythm, even though “pent” means five, because five beats would be totally offkilter and ridiculous and would never work and would be a complete disaster and totally unlistenable.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • It’s not five-beat rhythm, even though “pent” means five, because five beats would be totally offkilter and ridiculous and would never work and would be a complete disaster and totally unlistenable.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

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