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
As such, there are several knobs that must be tuned to allow life and, Earth’s mild obliquity is one.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2018
There was obliquity of vision, there was even blindness, for the human mind was still afflicted by the ancient error which had brought the autocracies of the past to destruction.
From The Builders by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
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