The inferior oblique muscle tends to direct the eye upward, and the superior oblique to depress the eye; because of the obliqueness of the pull, each causes the eye to roll, and in an opposite direction.
As obliqueness is decreased, the illusion becomes less compelling.
Her delicate stories, focused upon psychological conflicts, have an obliqueness of narration and a subtlety of observation that reveal the influence of Anton Chekhov.
All of them share a lack of terror about awkward silences, a sometimes brilliant obliqueness in the writing style and – every now and then – a sense of real melancholy.
It's an intoxicating pleasure, but some viewers may be disorientated towards the end, when the film's obliqueness overwhelms the plot and characters.
I definitely think there's a deliberate obliqueness to her memories, certain things she's circling around and not confronting.
In keeping with the social order in which she had been brought up, Mrs. Roosevelt did not begin to address Marion King by her first name until eleven years into their correspondence; and when the letters stray into the territory of the personal their obliqueness is, in its own way, deeply revealing.
Alas, the obliqueness of the gibe meant that Europeans simply did not comprenday.
Khalilzad relayed messages about America's interests, cloaked in diplomatic obliqueness but decipherable to his interlocutors.
This strategy of obliqueness began during my exile years as a way of lending global resonance to my vision, expanding it beyond what Chile inspired in me.
He laughed at the obliqueness of his implicit allusion to his impending marriage to the actress Amber Tamblyn.
