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Example sentences for: leans

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Critics dismiss the fourth installment in the Batman series as nonsensical kitsch, a "wild, campy costume party" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Director Joel Schumacher ( A Time to Kill ), a former window dresser, leans heavily on high-concept get-ups (villainess Uma Thurman sports a suit made from 450 Santa Claus wigs) in the apparent hope of deflecting attention from a script that "has the eerie feeling of having no beginning, no middle and no end" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Still, his overwrought attempts to make the film fun--fast editing, crashingly loud sound effects--end up making it "a punishing ordeal" (Alex Ross, Slate).
A rangy, purringly diffident blond gentile with blue eyes and a cleft chin, he watches as Pearl slips on a tie-dyed T-shirt, then leans his lips toward her bare throat--and bites off the dangling price tag.
Washington leans into an otherwise schlocky movie and slams it out of the ballpark" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). (Click here to find out more about Carter's story.)
Without further explanation, this leans a bit too pro-Democratic for a news story--after all, although Clinton might well have that fear, he also surely wanted to have the treaty as an election issue.
We can see that (c) is in-between (a) and (b), and in this case, leans toward (b).