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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.
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?
Lehrer (age 62) obliquely acknowledged this milestone when he won the debate assignment.
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.
The accuser phrases the dog-wagging charge obliquely so that he can deny having made it.