Personalities known to everyone in England are often portrayed in an oblique manner recognizable to his audience.

Never once did you reproach me in any oblique manner for sleeping with your woman.

He glanced once more at Garion and began to speak in an obviously oblique manner.

"For the last couple of years," as Wang expressed this in his oblique manner, "the signal from Tokyo is not that positive."

But Hart did not mention it overtly, only in this oblique, Byzantine manner.

He had had his instructors work on that angle in oblique manners during her schooling.

- but in such an oblique manner that it seems a throwback to another era in Communist Party history.

I was feeling some irritation with his oblique manner.

His own life enters in an oblique manner.

She had questioned him in a similarly oblique manner during their drive to Berlin, a month before.