obliqueness

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In an introductory author’s note, she says her goal is “to tell stories in what I regard as the most honest way possible: by accepting language’s inherent obliqueness and using it to the story’s advantage.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2023

Perhaps Cin felt that the obliqueness would create tension, but it mainly disorients the reader.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2021

Which is something that Hardwick, in the wake of her betrayal, understood better than most of us do now: that obliqueness is an under-sung tool of truth.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2020

I was taken with Chang-dong Lee’s beloved Burning, in which Steven Yeun is as much of a riot as advertised and the varnished obliqueness of debut actress Jong-seo Jeon is truly beguiling.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2019

When the fold takes an upward direction towards the outer corner, the latter is a good deal higher than the inner corner, and the result is the obliqueness mentioned above.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)