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That justification was the widely held convention that during his candidacy Clinton addressed the issues of his past infidelities, however obliquely, and that by electing him twice the public had given him a pass.
As Brinkley's first ADM commercial unspooled on ABC's This Week , he spoke obliquely about having accepted a new position, deliberately fostering the notion that he was returning to ABC as some sort of superpundit.
Birn also shows how Goldhagen's insistence on German complicity leads him to soft-pedal the anti-Semitism of the Germans' collaborators, referring obliquely to the "pressures operating on the Ukrainians that did not exist for the Germans."
Sir Randolph Quirk, the most famous British grammarian, says that the ordinal question can be obliquely asked in English like this: How many presidents were there before Bill Clinton?
Using one of the former's most powerful ploys, it chooses to come at the viewer obliquely via a human face, a human tragedy, that carefully fronts the industry behind.