Hill knows that the sinister is enhanced by obliqueness. From Wordnik.com. [2008 October 13 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
Disconcerted by my obliqueness, the man said, "How can I do this in a bathing suit?". From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
On the Continent, caution often rules the day, obliqueness is prized and audacity is suspect. From Wordnik.com. [A Wise Use] Reference
I will say this: despite the movie's tiresome obliqueness, in the lead role, Puiu creates a genuinely unnerving fellow. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Giltz: Cannes 2010 Day Two and Three: Wall Street 2 Stock Down, The Housemaid Burns Up] Reference
He was short, hard-bitten, less dark than the others, nose craggy, eyes without obliqueness - Kith, by the look of him. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
This moment reverberates because of the depth of Easy's personality, his complexity, his obliqueness, our inability to pin him down. From Wordnik.com. [A Grand Contrivance] Reference
It makes sense to me that you would prefer the obliqueness of what you describe as the Cageian approach rather than the Ginsberg approach. From Wordnik.com. [Ken, Yuh Draw Bad Card : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
She offers nods to the pataphysical tradition, to Gertrude Stein, and even to an oblique quote by Wordsworth about obliqueness in quotable lines. From Wordnik.com. [Gregory Betts reads derek beaulieu's Flatland] Reference
As Raikes resumed his chair, the Sepoy, recalling his glances from their mysterious foray, directed them, with curious obliqueness, upon his companion. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
He added new sentences that played up the lovely obliqueness in Carver's work, the sense of a beckoning or frightening space the reader must leap over to make the work connect. From Wordnik.com. [Editing: An Act of Generosity, Not a Stab at Co-Authorship] Reference
Cyrus Harding, during the descent, had roughly calculated its obliqueness, and consequently the length of the passage, and was therefore led to believe that the outer wall could not be very thick. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
For over 30 years, Willow Creek grew explosively thanks to its obliqueness toward Sabbath-day orthodoxy and quickly became the standard-bearer of a powerful new movement in evangelical Christianity. From Wordnik.com. [Less Seeking, More Thrills] Reference
Sorry about the obliqueness, but don't worry, it's coming. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Book Resources] Reference
This is an observer's look at obliqueness of life in modern world. From Wordnik.com. [All Media from ABC Local] Reference
Our culture goes for Zaid's "halus" (refined) ways, of subtleties and obliqueness. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
This one was 2008's big bear, with that trademark Newmanian obliqueness in the clues. From Wordnik.com. [Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle] Reference
But even apart from obliqueness the shape of the corner is peculiar in the Mongolian eye. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
Outstanding performances by Jackman and Weisz help to make the potentially frustrating obliqueness palatable. From Wordnik.com. [Home Theater Forum] Reference
They were long, true, but set squarely, and with just the slightest hint of obliqueness that was all for piquancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Jacket (Star-Rover)] Reference
The obliqueness of the film's endgame and the unreliability of the film's narrator are hardly the tools of simplistic message-making. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Princetonian, 2010-02-12] Reference
But all things have a definite limit, and hence, much practice and much goodwill will help us to discover the direction of obliqueness. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
Eyes, piercing and black and large, with a traditionary hint of obliqueness, looked forth from under clear-stencilled, clean-arching brows. From Wordnik.com. [The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke] Reference
She did as much as obliqueness of vision and sharpness of feature could help her to do to cut him in the presence of her party: and he would not take nay. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
When the fold takes an upward direction towards the outer corner, the latter is a good deal higher than the inner corner, and the result is the obliqueness mentioned above. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
No guile alone will breach rigidity or ease obliqueness of intent, you’re meant to be a slave to bushes burnt and blushes bright. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
The best, written between the mid 1940s and the mid 1960s, epitomise that magazine’s legendary lucid elegance of style and obliqueness of treatment. From Wordnik.com. [Nothing succeeds like excess] Reference
But in its obliqueness lies an advantage. From Wordnik.com. [Of Sex and Marriage] Reference
Reread my statment about Love thy neighbor "and you'll see the obliqueness of your answer. From Wordnik.com. [The Ostroy Report] Reference
He looked at her with gloomy obliqueness. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2] Reference
Sighing, Mrs. Vertrees resumed her obliqueness. From Wordnik.com. [The Turmoil] Reference
No time for finesse, or obliqueness of any sort. From Wordnik.com. [NAACHGAANA] Reference
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