Alan J. Pakula

I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.

American Director

Garth Nix

Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

Australian Writer

Chris Pavone

There's always something at least a little smug about self-reference - magazine articles about idealistic journalists, TV shows about TV actors, ironic films within ironic-er films: all this meta-media populated by thinly disguised characters making oblique inside jokes.

American Novelist

Denise Austin

Internal and external obliques form your sides and waist. Your external obliques sit closest to the surface toward the front of your waist, with the internal obliques sitting deeper and closer to your back. Toning them shrinks your waistline and love handles.

American Author

Paul Theroux

The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

American Artist

Minna Antrim

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

American Writer

John Grierson

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

British Director

Frank Moore Colby

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

American Educator

Jeff Giles

Scott Bradfield writes weird, oblique, unsettling stuff.

American Editor

Think of 'oblique' as describing a line taking a unique path, veering off from the expected direction.

Visual Imagery

'Oblique' often indicates a hint or indirect suggestion towards something rather than being straightforward.

Suggestive Hits

In communication, 'oblique' can describe a comment that is hinted at rather than explicitly stated.

Subtle Communication

Using 'oblique' can soften the delivery of a message, making it less direct and more tactful.

Conveying Tact

In medical terms, 'oblique' muscles are at an angle to the body's main lines, serving specific movement functions.

Muscle Orientation

'Oblique' can describe anything that deviates from a right angle or straight line, including concepts.

Unique Angles

Understanding 'oblique' helps in describing spatial relationships in art, math, and design.

Spatial Awareness

'Oblique' in publishing refers to a font style where the letters lean to the right, like italics.

Typography Style

 Me shyly, obliquely, trying not to be furtive. She boldly, unblinkingly, even pugnaciously, wrathfully even, when her bottle was empty. I was frightened of her. I felt like a child. I was afraid some repressed part of myself