Sentence examples for being too oblique from inspiring English sources

It's my usual weakness, being too oblique.

"The connections were too oblique," Mr. Green said in a recent interview.

Burnham's big idea – "aspirational socialism" – is too oblique to try to interpret at this point.

They are too oblique, the data-like patterning drifting toward pure decoration.

While he can be too oblique in responding to his Republican critics, in this speech he even singled out the likely Republican nominee, Mitt Romney.

Given such savagery, Sissako might be expected to rail against the freedom crushers, but he is too oblique for that, preferring a cool amusement at their expense.

But though the developing bond between the two men — one of whom is virtually nonverbal — is credible and even touching, the storytelling is too oblique to reel you in.

"Previous games that attempted to deal with depression or mental illness were too oblique and steeped in metaphor and symbolism to really get at the nasty heart of what living with these conditions can be like," Lindsey told me.

Yet could it be that its epic, haunting story of tragic love in the second world war is too oblique and opaque, with too complex an enigma at its heart, to press the right commercial buttons?

For a readership used to the more straight-forwardly confessional tone of the memoir, which is still the graphic form that receives the most attention, things may be too oblique, never resolving themselves.

In case the mention of the apparel that came to symbolize the Martin case was too oblique to convey her point, she brought out the Fourth Amendment implications of racial profiling with a more specific note about how the justifications for the policy, troublingly, echoed "the stereotype that black men are more likely to engage in criminal conduct than others".