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
Over the course of some 40,000 years, Earth’s obliquity waivers between 22.1 to 24.5 degrees.
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
For if the individual with propensities toward moral obliquity is to be saved to society it must be through the stereotyping effects of good habits.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.
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