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
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
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
The first or over-cut in this case is very fine, and, contrary to the general rule, has the least obliquity, while the up-cut has an unusual obliquity, and is the coarser of the two cuts.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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