obliquity
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All this suggests that the Wildes of this world are better approached by obliquity and stealth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
It’s not a question of subtlety, which the stage can accommodate, but obliquity, which feels like an evasion of theater’s confrontational power.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
Sweeping statements were made about genre and obliquity and readerly expectations.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2019
Although it does not possess a high obliquity, its elliptical orbit massages the moon’s interior, thanks to Jupiter’s gravitational pull.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 4, 2019
It was this confidence that had blinded his eyes to the moral obliquity of his contract with Felix Muller.
From A Gamble with Life by Silas K. (Silas Kitto) Hocking
It has also long caused astronomers to wonder whether Earth’s tilt — arguably a sweet spot between more extreme obliquities — helped create the conditions necessary for life.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
“Large obliquities make stronger tides, and tides make the planet move,” Millholland says.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 4, 2019
Interactions with other objects over their lifetimes can change their obliquities, tilting them over slightly or tremendously.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 4, 2019
But the obliquities of Martin assume a less questionable aspect, when we contemplate a noble work, which he not only projected, but left behind ready for publication.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
With all the good will in the world, I do not find myself able to rise to these heights; in fact, they rather seem to deserve Wordsworth's description, as mere obliquities of admiration.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson by John Morley
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