He reaches to straighten the only book in her home office that's slightly askew.
A desk chair was tipped on its side, a trash can was overturned, and a rug was askew.
A slightly askew painting on the Carlsons' living room wall is testimony to the traffic overhead.
Her long black head scarf shifts slightly askew as she glares disapprovingly at her daughter.
One column on the exterior dome was knocked askew by the earthquake.
Traffic wardens look for anything out of order - a truck parked askew or a car that hasn't moved in a while.
Moreover, the fact that the historical links sometimes appear pointedly askew is precisely the point.
His inferences and hunches were sometimes inspired, sometimes askew, sometimes emphatically wrong-headed.
