Having a larger area of muscle attachment on one valve than the other is one means by which muscle
obliqueness can be increased.
Due to the vastness of the web, interpretative travels initiated by a poem are likely to diverge markedly for different interpreters; indeed, the
obliqueness and suggestiveness of much poetry make it likely that the web searches triggered from reading a poem will vary.
Entrusted to a language that rises to the heavens of grand tradition and descends to the bowels of dialect, the novel intersperses narrative moments and documentary fictions with a unity approaching that of music: its form confirms that certain anomalies, a certain
obliqueness of gaze--ultimately an unengaged intellect--yields intriguing effects.
At their best, they remind the reader of a Trollope or a de Maupassant, in the precision of their observations about human nature or in the
obliqueness of their insight.
For making the analysis more accurate the evaluating expert allocates to the average value also a risk (dispersion) and a trend (
obliqueness) in the evaluated criterion.
He did state, however artfully: "I am opposed to those laws which interfere with [an adult's] sexual life." For all his
obliqueness here, as Claude J.
Evaluating two decades of US sanctions to curb Iran's nuclear appetite, the US Congress' Government Accountability Office recently concluded that the results are "unclear," adding with candid
obliqueness that "some evidence, such as foreign firms signing contracts to invest in Iran's energy and Iran's continued proliferation efforts, raise questions about the extent of the sanctions' impact."
"I see Oedipus as a modern man, self-made, tough and bold, who uses language as a weapon to cut through verbal adiposity and
obliqueness," he says.
This is a waste because it has much to interest us beyond its mild exoticism and the odd circumstances of its writing and publication, for example the author's fine ear for the 'Guernsey English' in which the fictional autobiography is written, the
obliqueness of Edwards's use of narrative voice, and the profound insight into island life and personal failure.
Though some might prefer the direct representations of "Jane Austen" as a character offered in recent novels and films, (8) in my view McEwan's evocation of Austen through Briony gains in power because of its
obliqueness. Fictionalized versions of Austen run the risk of distracting us with their poetic license, rather than leading us to think anew about her life, her writings, and her effect on us.
The BLC is typified by a distinctive set of locative verbs(s), and an oblique NP indicating the Location (
obliqueness marked by adposition, case, adverbializer).