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Example sentences for: oblique

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And there is no gainsaying the fact that the first sense of man (`male human') tends to contaminate (if that is the right word) the oblique senses.
On the morning of 9 September 1990, in a report on the Bush-Gorbachov meeting in Helsinki, a reporter on CNN (the US Cable News Network) referred to the conference using a term that could only be spelled “tête-à-thé,” which might have been some strange metaphor meaning `head in the tea'; or perhaps it was an oblique reference to China or to hocking a tchainik `gossiping.
Greenspan didn't make that connection, but a lot of outside observers did, leading to the inevitable conclusion that, in his typically oblique way, the Fed chairman was trying to talk down stock prices in general and Internet stock prices--which, though not quite as gaudy as they were back in April, are still pretty hefty--in particular.
This time, at the heart of a carefully constructed thriller is a romance, which is no less tragic--in fact, is more tragic--for being oblique.
Over the years, advertisers have tried all kinds of tactics to attract customers, and more recently those tactics have seemed to cover the full spectrum of the possible, including the utterly oblique (Infiniti's first campaign), the willfully tacky (Mentos), the memorable-for-memorability's-sake (Outpost.com's flying gerbils and ravenous wolves), and the self-loathing (Sega's Japanese ads for Dreamcast, which I wrote about here last week).