Sentence examples for obliquely in from inspiring English sources

Elsewhere, the first-person presence is only obliquely in evidence.

Rotting food and body parts recur; actors in one story reappear obliquely in others.

The hardships Japanese-Americans were subjected to during these years emerge obliquely in these chapters.

It is perhaps most frustrating that the judge's fascinating life is glimpsed only obliquely, in hindsight.

It's partly those annual telethons, of course, an aspect of his career mentioned only obliquely in this film.

A good playwright always signals his theme, if only obliquely, in the first exchanges of a play.

Libeskind brings up the subject of architecture only obliquely in many of his speeches, and sometimes not at all.

(This is revealed somewhat obliquely in another episode when they serve matzo balls to a black family).

So he barely mentioned them, or mentioned them only obliquely, in his most recent visit on Thursday.

The mysterious evidence that delayed Mr. Talb's testimony for a month has been referred to only obliquely in open court.

Bresson's first use of Dostoevsky was more obliquely in Pickpocket, where the inspiration is Crime And Punishment.