obliquity

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

Their importunities and threatenings had generally been resisted, however, and with an obliquity that can not be easily explained, I persisted in my unreasonable design.

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

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

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

She knew how little weight they carry smothered in feminine graces and coy obliquities from the point.

From The Prisoner by Alice Brown