obliquity
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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
That, combined with the fact it is presently very difficult to measure an exoplanet’s tilt, has led most astronomers to mostly ignore obliquity when they model the evolution of planetary systems.
From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2019
“You could have any obliquity and you could still have habitable conditions on the surface of the planet.”
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2018
The tale of his reign sufficiently bears witness to the strange mixture of moral obliquity and practical ability in his character.
From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick
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