Cutting through the obliquity, which is formidable, his ever-changing "deadline" will be adjusted if realities on the ground so dictate. From Wordnik.com. [Balderdash] Reference
The plane of the equator makes an angle of approximately 23.43 0 with the ecliptic plane; this angle is known as the obliquity of the ecliptic. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The plane of the Ecliptic is inclined to that of the Equinoctial at an angle of 23° 27-1/2 ', and this inclination is called the obliquity of the. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures in Navigation] Reference
28 ', which angle is called the obliquity of the ecliptic. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of the Long Night] Reference
And here we come to a most extraordinary obliquity of the feminine eye. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
P. 8: A most unaccountable obliquity in the manner of setting up my top. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Self-Conceit is that original obliquity that leads a man to make a hog of himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga] Reference
Owing to the obliquity of the plane of the section the figure is quite asymmetrical. From Wordnik.com. [Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator] Reference
It imports a moral obliquity that, happily for society, is found in few human beings. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Waiters suffering from obliquity of vision were to be sought out and fastened on to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
It would appear that the object of his affections suffered from some obliquity of vision. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31] Reference
We may do that with failure of many kinds, but never in a case of conscious moral obliquity. From Wordnik.com. [Men in the Making] Reference
It is distinguished by concavity of features and obliquity of angles, or rather the absence of angles. From Wordnik.com. [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference
This obliquity is caused by a change of place, performed rather by the internal than the external ring. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Could I alter the obliquity of her mental vision by brooding over it, and worrying myself into a fit of misanthropy?. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
Too often, from the lowest to the highest court, the records are so manipulated as to show the moral obliquity of the. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
From this we may calculate the true place of the node, the true obliquity, and the true inclination to the lunar orbit. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
Their apparent moral obliquity is, in reality, a mental deficiency, for which they are not any more to blame than you or I. From Wordnik.com. [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference
The one great hope, however, that the cruel obliquity would be cured by the mother's love when it awoke amply sustained me. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
As viewed from the side, the profile of the teeth shows a very noticeable increase in the obliquity with which they meet. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
The obliquity of the ecliptic was accurately determined, and an arc of the meridian was measured between Syene and Alexandria. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Yet we concede the right of others to think differently on these points, without being suspected of moral obtuseness or obliquity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
In the deepest of his tragedies, he voiced a grandeur even in obliquity, and hymned the greatness and the glory of the life of man. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
The obliquity of this course, pursued by the hernia, from the internal to the external ring, has gained for it the name of oblique hernia. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Ionian school, and taught the sphericity of the Earth, the obliquity of the ecliptic, and the true causes of eclipses of the Sun and Moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
"The climate depends primarily on latitude, since this indicates distance from the source of heat, and the degree of obliquity of the heating rays.". From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
In the one case the new leaflet springs from the apex of the petiole and partially fills the space consequent on the obliquity of the base of the leaf. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
There seemed to be some curious obliquity about him which made for crooked ways, and in any case Peter did not want to miss the mail with Toffy's letters. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
The eyes are small and black in color, set somewhat obliquely, and the upper lid is drawn down over the eye at its inner corner so as to make the obliquity still more marked. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
The more elaborate forms resemble the hot-air oven (Fig. 26) in shape and are provided with adjustable shelves so that any desired obliquity of the serum slope can be obtained. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
The obliquity of the ecliptic they settled at twenty-three degrees and a half: the annual movement of the equinoxes and the duration of the tropical year were brought to within. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference
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