None, however-even from correspondents who'd known in some oblique fashion about the Shoal .

In an oblique fashion, it was a heat-pump.

Then she thought he might be speaking (in equally oblique fashion) of his sorrow, his state of mourning.

It was even raised, in oblique fashion, at the Golden Globes.

Among other things, "Dreams" suggests in oblique fashion that the past does not exist.

It walked with a limp and also in a kind of oblique fashion, as though it was trying to insinuate its way through the world.

She answered him only in the most oblique fashion.

And because of her skin color he would acknowledge her only in an oblique fashion.

Theoretically, the cannon could be aimed in an oblique fashion.

"There are two kinds of science," Aivas began in his oblique fashion.