Possible Clues:

• Skew-whiff
• Leaning; out of plumb
• Some taverna's lantern at an angle
• Literary lion: poet, ultimately using oblique style?
• Lion seen on top of track that's at an angle
• Like the Miller beer logo
• Lion god needs time on slope
• Lion god takes time on slope
• Not straight up
• Obliquely like the French, not without love