obliquity

Example Sentences

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Such a slouch, or obliquity, gives us our seasons.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2023

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

Now, astronomers are proposing that shifts in obliquity could do even more.

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 Hocking, Silas K. (Silas Kitto)