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oblique

«There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering»
«All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it - an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.»
Author: Peter Conrad | Keywords: indirect, oblique, sample, samples
«Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh | About: Prayer | Keywords: oblique
«Is it not? Is it not? Breadth of view, my dear Mr. Mac, is one of the essentials of our profession. The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of knowledge are often of extraordinary interest.»