Unanchored from coherent characters, it reads as a series of oblique set pieces and thesis statements rather than a fully considered novel.
Describing the words on the album as an expression of "idiot glee", Eno and Schmidt eventually expanded the Oblique Strategies set to over 100 "worthwhile dilemmas", which would be used in nearly all his future recordings and productions.
Functional images were acquired with a gradient-echo, echo-planner imaging sequence of 24 axial-oblique slices set parallel to the ac pc line (6 mm thick, 0 skip) with gradient echo planar imaging (64 × 64 matrix, TE = 45 ms, α = 80, TR = 2 s, 2112 kHz bandwidth).
As a modern analogue, similar compartmentalization can be observed on the Sunda forearc, where an oblique subduction setting is prevalent (Dickinson 1995).
Two natural fracture patterns are used: one of unconnected, sub-parallel fractures and one with oblique fracture sets which is well connected.
So I usually start the day by doing exercises in bed; I work my obliques, do three or four sets of crunches, do the bicycle thing where you lie on your back and pedal your legs in the air.
The two parallel and oblique turbine clusters are simulated to determine the optimum gap distances and setting angles between adjacent turbines for the maximum power coefficient.
Will's brother, Davey Jonathan Rhys Meyerss), whose death sets the oblique plot in motion, is an admirer of John Coltrane and Terence Blanchard, and Mr. Hodges directs with a jazz musician's self-contained suavity.
Hurrying along one avenue after another, Termilus saw arms and legs dangling from the compacted buildings, limbs set at oblique angles, the dust-covered dead appearing as ghosts, some staring with open-eyed vacancy or grimaced expressions.
The stories feel simultaneously oblique and obvious, the "message" all the more blatant because McCann has whittled everything -- language, setting, character delineation -- down to dry bone.
The lattice truss core is composed of four sets of orthogonal stiffeners, two sets of oblique rods and one set of vertical columns, which establishes a significant transfer path of the reactive loadings.
