| There appears to be a degree of tolerance as regards the obliqueness of the graft, but this has yet to be determined. |
| Her delicate stories, focused upon psychological conflicts, have an obliqueness of narration and a subtlety of observation that reveal the influence of Anton Chekhov. |
| I must confess, in all my obliqueness, I did offer an opinion of sorts. |
| It has the obliqueness and indirection of Strauss, and its thesis is the Straussian nihilism that philosophy and faith are unfounded choices. |
| All of them share a lack of terror about awkward silences, a sometimes brilliant obliqueness in the writing style and – every now and then – a sense of real melancholy. |
| If you can stand the obliqueness, the allusiveness and the tension-inducing pace, you are in for an experience that is disturbing, revelatory and poetic. |
