obliqueness

Example Sentences

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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

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

As a girl, cycling through her archive, I became obsessed with her obliqueness.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 20, 2018

Eyes, piercing and black and large, with a traditionary hint of obliqueness, looked forth from under clear-stencilled, clean-arching brows. 

From The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke by London, Jack