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

There’s an intentional obliqueness, the traces of a narrative that are blurred and contorted by the characters.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2022

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

Some good angel of a class corresponding in the celestial world to that of Minnie in this, only stopped her in time, and gave a little obliqueness to the response.

From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)