Sentence examples for an oblique look from inspiring English sources

It's an oblique look back at urban life in the nineties as portrayed in the film "Boyz n the Hood".

And yet, he said, he sometimes takes an oblique look at these struggles against age and sees what he calls "the absurdity of it".

His latest, also a Fringe First winner, is a production of the Druid Theater of Galway and takes an oblique look at part of Homer's "Odyssey".

Sebald writes what he termed 'prose fiction', taking an oblique look at history by combining genres and blurring boundaries between fact and fiction, art and documentary (he frequently uses real names and photographs).

The New Orleans ghettos that America got an oblique look at after the hurricane grew up during the time when the South, having successfully resisted the federal government, imposed a secondary status on blacks.

This essay can be read alongside a piece Quinn wrote for Vela in 2012, which gives an oblique look at drug abuse through the story of a man called Eat Pray Paul, whom she met while living in Cambodia.

For all its wry and oblique look at how emotions develop, the ballet is above all a triumph of creativity.

This approach put both works at an unaccustomed remove, but if neither interpretation was for the ages, each offered a look, from an oblique angle, at how these pieces work.

Standing at an oblique angle to the audience, looking at the floor, head cocked slightly to the left, he forms a triangle with his alto saxophone against his chest.

Honda says the look is more "upscale" and "premium," which is an oblique way of saying it doesn't look as cheap or as bland.

* The Metrolink tracks parallel San Fernando and cross Buena Vista, which runs north-south, at an oblique angle, requiring some drivers to look over their shoulders to spot approaching trains.