The intrusion of the disciples, who never actually appear in this one-woman show, is affected obliquely.
Though we avoid looking directly at prisons, they seep obliquely into our fashions and manners.
Walgreen can't strong-arm the big PBMs. So it's trying to reach them obliquely.
An Iraqi official dismissed the idea that the arms inspection should be revived and obliquely attacked the French and Saudi initiatives.
Labour says he has now done so obliquely, by agreeing to abide by all the undertakings signed by the outgoing Kadima-Labour government.
Mr. Farrar addresses his falling out with his old friend, however obliquely, in a new memoir to be published later this month.
After testifying, he said obliquely that he was standing by that account.
Under the same code, Mr Strauss-Kahn's womanising was only obliquely referred to by a comedian here or a blogger there, and never followed up.
The narrator tries to find points of contact with his unfamiliar audience, which allows Eno obliquely to tease the notions of place and of home.
Amazon also says this on their website, although somewhat obliquely.
The absorbing story, set in a desolate patch of the Mississippi Delta in wintertime, begins obliquely, as a man is found dead, a suicide, in his modest home.
Chertoff goes on to suggest obliquely that demonstrating retaliatory capability in this way might be one method of deriving a deterrence function from US technical superiority in this field.
Like Max Payne, he's stepped away from the street to nurse his own grievances -- he bears an ugly scar down his cheek from an incident referred to only obliquely.
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