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If Mr Fukui were to replace him, Mr Hayami is suggesting obliquely, he would be happy to resign early.Alas, it all seems too oblique for Masajuro Shiokawa, Japan's new finance minister, who happily admits his ignorance of things financial.
Scott plays a woman of mystery, emphasised by the fact that she is shot in oblique angles and low-key lighting.
Deploying that well-worn reference to moderate Conservatism – the country club kind, not the Tea Party variety – was an oblique acknowledgement that his tough talk on further benefit cuts for hard-pressed Britons and polarising attacks on the SNP had left him with work to do.
It is this more oblique objective that the writer must aim for, even if that writer wishes for a more overt conversion.
When I ask Denis what brings together these disparate strands, her response is characteristically oblique :"I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life – how people live.
Singer and guitarist Tom Smith's sage-but-nervous tones hover between those of Ian Curtis and Echo and the Bunnymen's Ian McCulloch, intoning oblique lyrics that double as kiss-offs and riddles.
Nor did I know quite what a Rothschild was, but I deduced (and had confirmed later by my father) that it must be the name of a famously rich family, and it was actually this — this oblique promise of induction into a world of fluent and evocative expression — more than William's notoriously anarchic spirit, that drew me in.
Some were more oblique ("Night," Mia Farrow tweeted, minutes before the tribute started), and others less so: "Missed the Woody Allen tribute - did they put the part where a woman publicly confirmed he molested her at age 7 before or after Annie Hall?" tweeted Farrow and Allen's son Ronan after the event finished.
We dived into the Oblique Strategies at times.
Facebook is awash with pointed omissions and photos that serially exclude a single family member, or oblique status updates that hint at some vast unhappiness, with no context or elaboration, and which no one quite knows how to field.
Yet he has been working for decades, his early career comprising a series of "oblique " BBC-funded documentaries like Serbian Epics, in which he travelled to Bosnia during the 1994 civil war to film Radovan Karadžić, the Bosnian Serb leader later accused of ordering the Srebrenica massacre, as he read garish poetry on the hills above the besieged shell of Sarajevo.
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The adjective "oblique" primarily functions to modify nouns , describing something that deviates from a direct or straightforward path, angle, or manner. As Ludwig AI confirms, it suggests a non-perpendicular or indirect quality, seen in examples of "oblique angles" or "oblique references".
Expression frequency: Very common
