obliqueness

The music needed a touch of obliqueness to give it some sense of life.

But the movie's atmosphere is a curious mixture of obliqueness and intensity.

But this is no time for politeness, obliqueness or complacency.

The result is an obliqueness that, while wonderfully evocative of the original, can be difficult to follow.

So, this play suggests with devilish obliqueness, are we.

One misses the tension that his earlier obliqueness produced.

What is most interesting about reverberation in fiction, however, is its obliqueness.

On the subject of John, Emma tends to obliqueness.

We are growing old; it takes time to focus the diffision, the obliqueness of a new young mind.

The obliqueness fit-that would be just like the pathologist.

"I was thinking of my great-great-great-granddaughter," she said, combining honesty and obliqueness at once.

They were long, true, but set squarely, and with just the slightest hint of obliqueness that was all for piquancy.

Her dark fathomless eyes had an obliqueness that extraordinarily long lashes only served to stress.

Disconcerted by my obliqueness, the man said, "How can I do this in a bathing suit?"

That obliqueness is a kind of irony."

Yet here, for the first time, Mr. Brown departs from the obliqueness of his imagery.

But when it comes to seduction, obliqueness - as Robert Greene, the book's author, knows well - is crucial.

"Draft of Shadows," by contrast, has a different kind of obliqueness and succeeds because of it.

With all its alien obliqueness, DNA can seem runic and essentially alone.

There is a recurring obliqueness to her conversation that is at odds with her emotional intensity.

This self-irony and mental undercutting lead to a possibly intentional obliqueness but also distance the viewer from the work.

Its songs declared affection without irony or obliqueness, in smooth opposition to alternative-rock orthodoxy.

Soon they will have to drop their habitual obliqueness; this calamity will call for real and palpable action.

In much of his other work, Julian Barnes has approached the novel with shrewdly self-conscious obliqueness.

"That's stupid Jenny-speak," she said, lampooning her obliqueness.