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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.
That it should be a novel which cemented the notion of Christmas as the grand secular holiday we now have (Jesus is mentioned only obliquely ) is something even the most cynical fiction writer revels in.
While Schumer's sketches don't possess quite the level of withering societal critique that some reviewers have given them credit for, you almost never see this sort of subject matter broached on television, even obliquely ; let alone in the direct way Schumer handles it.
This can often happen in fog and very low cloud, but this was a fine sunny day.Although it was impossible to see the runway obliquely through the pollution, I caught a glimpse of the runway from vertically above and was able to corkscrew down to a landing with apologies to a civil aircraft behind me who was equally keen to land.
Messrs Gilberto and Getz would return the following year with a worldwide smash, the definitive version of "The Girl from Ipanema", an upbeat song written by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes and inspired by a supple 15-year-old carioca, but which deals obliquely with an awareness of mortality.Mr Oliveira's involvement in the Carnegie Hall show was merely prologue.
For many, particularly, the young, it is heady stuff.Darfur may also have benefited from the elections, albeit obliquely.
Italians have been mostly kept in the dark about the Bari investigation, which has been mentioned only briefly and obliquely on the main television channels.
"Which would be worse?" This is a kind of love story one that obliquely recognises the challenges of making love last.
He suggests obliquely that margins will eventually improve, as the last 100 of the locomotives will be built with Chinese labour and parts.Taking a big swingThe other big risk to Ecomagination comes from GE's own culture.
But he has done so surprisingly sparingly and obliquely , given his saintly reputation.King Bhumibol's only other English biography, "The Revolutionary King" by William Stevenson, argues that his interventions have been effective precisely because they have been guarded and infrequent.
Bill Clinton is shown aiming a rifle at a row of Iraqis, all of whom have targets pinned to their chests except for Saddam.Some Saudi editorialists, who tend to reflect official opinion, suggest, obliquely , that the trouble with American policy is that it is ineffective: effective action, that finished off Mr Hussein once and for all, would not necessarily be unacceptable.
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The adverb "obliquely " modifies verbs, adverbs, or adjectives to indicate an indirect or roundabout manner. Ludwig AI confirms its usage across diverse contexts, signaling a nuanced way of expressing actions or statements that are not straightforward.
Expression frequency: Very common
