obliqueness
IPA: ʌbɫˈiknʌs
noun
- The quality of being oblique.
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Examples of "obliqueness" in Sentences
- Hill knows that the sinister is enhanced by obliqueness.
- Disconcerted by my obliqueness, the man said, "How can I do this in a bathing suit?"
- Lost is * frequently* needlessly obtuse, and too often uses that obliqueness as an excuse for actual cleverness.
- They were long, true, but set squarely, and with just the slightest hint of obliqueness that was all for piquancy.
- I will say this: despite the movie's tiresome obliqueness, in the lead role, Puiu creates a genuinely unnerving fellow.
- It makes sense to me that you would prefer the obliqueness of what you describe as the Cageian approach rather than the Ginsberg approach.
- Eyes, piercing and black and large, with a traditionary hint of obliqueness, looked forth from under clear-stencilled, clean-arching brows.
- If anything, in a world where our sprawling media attempt to explain everything to us and yet end up spitting out so much chatter and noise, they’re weirder than ever — their very obliqueness is satisfyingly direct ....
- Then in a resonant, pedantic tone, reminiscent of the age, the art restorer snarls: Damn fools — perception rests on guarded obliqueness — destitute meandering of sight — guttural vicissitude kept well hidden behind the eye allows us to envision cold tomorrows without the trumpeting of the glib future — Bob interrupts her: Who are you?
- Along the way Wije and Ari get into fisticuffs over the legality of Muttiah Muralitharan's bowling action; their friend Jonny, who shares their passion for sport, as well as secretly nurturing a passion for young men, is attacked by villagers and imprisoned; and in the larger background, always referred to with the utmost obliqueness, there are riots, burnings, and wars – domestic and otherwise.
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