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Example sentences for: oblique

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Thomas in The White Hotel , charts an oblique course as far as historical engagement is concerned (though Thomas cuts loose in his shocking denouement).
Gould was discovering an unfortunate dilemma in the profession of fashion journalism: Since writers don't feel allowed to come right out and say they "hate it"--a collection, an item--or to praise what is really praiseworthy but not new enough, their writing tends to develop an oblique, distorted character.
However, a few specimens (up to 10% in some batches of eggs) show an oblique third-cleavage orientation that produces a morula with a rosette of blastomeres at its animal pole.
The paranoid explanation is that the paper's growing dependence on movie ads compels her, in some oblique and unconscious way, to be an industry booster.
The subject matter--a group of World War II soldiers on a mission--strangely echoes Saving Private Ryan , but critics say this film is much more oblique and spiritual.