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
They are methods of indirect attack It is significant that many words for intelligence suggest the idea of circuitous, evasive activity—often with a sort of intimation of even moral obliquity.
From How We Think by Dewey, John
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