She just brings out a point in the most marvelously oblique way.

It was an oblique way of asking that other, more frightening question.

Even when I like it, it's nothing more than a really oblique way of saying the obvious.

It was more or less the same as his, in an oblique way.

It is a much more oblique way of writing about the present.

James's message had been meant for herself, an oblique way of saying that he was no longer interested.

In an oblique way, it sums up a great deal that has to be said about Berlin.

And yet, in some oblique way she seemed grateful that he had.

He seemed to suggest it, in an oblique way.

But the story identifies her with it, in an oblique way.