obliquity
Example Sentences
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It’s not a question of subtlety, which the stage can accommodate, but obliquity, which feels like an evasion of theater’s confrontational power.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021
Sweeping statements were made about genre and obliquity and readerly expectations.
From Slate • Mar. 26, 2019
Although it does not possess a high obliquity, its elliptical orbit massages the moon’s interior, thanks to Jupiter’s gravitational pull.
From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2019
“You could have any obliquity and you could still have habitable conditions on the surface of the planet.”
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2018
For if the individual with propensities toward moral obliquity is to be saved to society it must be through the stereotyping effects of good habits.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
