obliqueness


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the property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle

the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly

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For each species, the adductor muscle proportions, size, position, and obliqueness, as well as mass, were measured.
In Weird work, you're always aware of a certain obliqueness, a sense that there is a world behind the world, a code that runs the system.
Alsager and the effect is decisive, but the narrative's preference for deferral, obliqueness and omission is sustained when this crucial event occurs "offstage." Mrs.
There were calculated the statistical indicators of central tendency (median and arithmetic mean), dispersion (standard deviation), form of distribution (Skewness Index--for obliqueness and Kurtosis Index--for arching) and independent t-Test.
Through its obliqueness and failure to address past actions and misgivings in a direct manner, the Vietnamese government continues to alienate a significant segment of the diaspora.
The relationship that Bazin maintained until his death in late 1958 with this particularly cinematographic moment in the history of the review, marked on the one hand by its editor Jacques Laurent and, on the other, by the regency of French cinematographic taste developed by the young hussar or pseudo-hussar Francois Truffaut, remains all the more interesting because of its obliqueness. His position is, de facto, perfectly contradictory, if one considers that he was the co-founder of Cahiers du cinema--a review that began a full year before Jacques Laurent came to direct Arts, and should have therefore been in direct competition with its policy--and that the four young critics who wrote about cinema for Arts were also the most promising authors in Cahiers.
The film focuses on unremarkable events, exploring the lightness and obliqueness of quotidian emotions and ultimately telling a story of situatedness, and mood and thus of the everyday.
For example, in northern Chile and Argentina there are four continuous Liasic to Cenozoic magmatic arc systems so well preserved that allow recognize different angles of convergence obliqueness between the Nazca and South-America plates (Scheuber and Reutter, 1992).
The surprising degree of compliance reflects a combination of factors, particularly their obliqueness. The sanctions target Iranian institutions but by extension impose constraints on their foreign business partners.
For all the humiliation and offenses." (75) Part of this success came from the obliqueness of the book's critique: it avoided a critical analysis of contemporary socialist reality and instead made its point through displacement.
How far the affair went must remain a matter of speculation, given the discretion, or obliqueness, of Cochrane's phrasing.
Moreover, from the idea that 'there are degrees of obliqueness,' (Kress & van Leeuwen 1996:142), the oblique angles in frames 2, 13, 15, 17, and 19 are best defined as slightly oblique because their vanishing points fall within the vertical boundaries of the frame.
She also considers the effects of the Athenaeum editor Charles Wentworth Dilke, and his policy "that contributors not engage in controversies" on the obliqueness of the essay's contemporary intervention: as a result, "Barrett had to downplay in her essay the very debates that prompted it" (p.