obliquity
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Obliquity has led to greater success in novelizing the sixteenth President than have attempts to see him from the inside out and through his own point of view.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2017
Karl’s old boss at Oxford, John Kay, has written a great book called Obliquity.
From Forbes • Nov. 17, 2011
"Obliquity has been a military tactic for a long time" – yes, but so has dropping bombs right on the target.
From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2010
The analysis that captures this best is not one of the countless postmortems of the financial crisis but a new, somewhat counterintuitive, book by economist John Kay called Obliquity.
From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2010
Obliquity -- N. obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness &c. adj.; slopeness†; leaning &c. v.; bevel, tilt; bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
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