He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code, socialist code. From Wordnik.com. [A Word to the Wise - A Townhall.com user blog] Reference
He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code. socialist code. From Wordnik.com. ["Barack Obama's Stealth Socialism"] Reference
He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code - socialist code. From Wordnik.com. [Israpundit] Reference
He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code - socialist code. '. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Barack Obama's Stealth Socialism] Reference
V-wheel, was straining obliquely from the right with the shackle and rope attached to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Breaking of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on Board the Great Eastern] Reference
However, in obliquely making this point Mr. Klein unwittingly points to a flaw in the measurement of administrative efficiency. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
I think towards the end he kind of obliquely let me know. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting for Air: In the Trenches with Television News] Reference
Perhaps if he led up to the subject more obliquely. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Anything] Reference
The things I had wanted to say had to be said, even obliquely. From Wordnik.com. [Heels.] Reference
Oak road, with two divisions to the front, aligned obliquely to the. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The excited horse charged obliquely toward this obstruction with all his might. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Timmy was to be allowed to set his own pace under their obliquely-watching eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Life] Reference
Carle acknowledges, somewhat obliquely, how much his life in Germany affected his art. From Wordnik.com. [The Surprising Dark Side of the Very Hungry Caterpillar] Reference
The never-married Grey's dating history does get a workout on the show, but only obliquely. From Wordnik.com. [It's Like, Uh ... Jennifer Grey] Reference
Suddenly the clouds parted, and a ray of sunshine shot obliquely down towards the south-west. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
The Libyan obliquely asked whether he should reach out to the presumptive Democratic nominee. From Wordnik.com. [Too Soon to Swoon] Reference
This cavity resembles a cone in shape that is cut obliquely downwards and forward at its base. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
The showdown also obliquely raised the longstanding issue of the music industry's racial divide. From Wordnik.com. [The Day The Music Stopped] Reference
Just as our earth, by a sudden change in the inclination of its axis, might rotate more obliquely. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Production designer Ben Rock devised a creepy stick figure, obliquely menacing, and hung it in trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Blair Witch Cult] Reference
Rendered in obliquely crisp cinematic shorthand, it brings the movie to an anomalously muted conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [SO WHAT'S THE GOOD NEWS?] Reference
JetBlue obliquely acknowledged the incident on its blog while avoiding any substantive comment about it. From Wordnik.com. [You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz] Reference
The tiny jaw that men favor in women is essentially a monument to estrogen -- and, obliquely, to fertility. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology Of Beauty] Reference
It may take place in various directions, lengthwise, obliquely, or transversely, according to circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Some former child soldiers are willing to talk, even if only obliquely, about their experience in the Khmer Rouge. From Wordnik.com. [Facing A Grisly Past] Reference
He'd extend his left hand, and we would grope a bit, obliquely, cater-cornered, as if we were about to begin a minuet. From Wordnik.com. [Learning To Love Dole] Reference
Bradley began obliquely, asking Gore whether he thought "consistency on fundamental issues of principle is important.". From Wordnik.com. [Al And Bill Ko Themselves] Reference
He confirms that he had at least a fling with Gennifer Flowers, and obliquely admits that there were other "other women.". From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: 'My Life's' Gift to Hillary Clinton] Reference
In the past, officials have used such language to refer obliquely to the possibility of foreign-exchange market intervention. From Wordnik.com. [Japan Debates How to Stimulate Growth] Reference
Turned aside, however, by the many obstacles referred to, it often passes obliquely, or almost horizontally, through the soil. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
A property tycoon and pro-China legislator, David Chu, obliquely ridicules what he regards as the foreign pretensions of her type. From Wordnik.com. [Hong Kong's Canary] Reference
She and the mayor had privately -- but obliquely -- discussed perhaps "altering their relationship," as one friend of both put it. From Wordnik.com. [Sex And The City] Reference
In public, Karl Rove, the president's political guru-for-life, obliquely questioned whether Jeffords's motive was a better chairmanship. From Wordnik.com. [What Bush Needs To Learn] Reference
Because Antonioni had suffered a stroke, Avedon couldn't engage him in conversation and direct him obliquely toward the desired emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Avedon] Reference
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