obliquity

Sweeping statements were made about genre and obliquity and readerly expectations.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2019

Over the course of some 40,000 years, Earth’s obliquity waivers between 22.1 to 24.5 degrees.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 4, 2019

Then György Kurtag’s “The Answered Unanswered Question,” music on the edge of obliquity that answers nothing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2018

Bishop’s withholding is less a matter of Moore-like modernist obliquity, however, than of the guarded reticence that was her legacy and her means of control.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 26, 2017

A direct light renders them invisible, and only when the requisite obliquity has been obtained, does the exquisite character of the structure become displayed.

From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.

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

Interactions with other objects over their lifetimes can change their obliquities, tilting them over slightly or tremendously.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 4, 2019

“Large obliquities make stronger tides, and tides make the planet move,” Millholland says.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 4, 2019

Most of the jars and bickerings of domestic life, most of the mental and moral obliquities, depend upon threadbare nerves, either inherited or uncovered by friction incident to getting on in the world.

From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams

"Then why didn't you say so?" complained McGlade, as though impatient of obliquities that had been altogether too apparent.

From Never-Fail Blake by Stringer, Arthur