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Перевод: obliquely


[наречие]
косо; наклонно; косвенно; двусмысленно


Тезаурус:

  1. Beatrice Hastings commented on it obliquely in her column and the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, who used to invite Max Jacob and Modi to lunch when he could afford it, found himself warmly advised to embrace the faith.
  2. This facet of the culture is perhaps the reason why the British administrative and academic lites have obliquely indicated to the police that they do not consider them fit to be allowed to take charge of police research.
  3. On the other hand, while I was watching a treecreeper, I noticed that, as it climbed obliquely around the trunk, its white throat and breast became very conspicuous.
  4. The novel is a curious mixture of autobiography, fantasy, speculation about poetry, and Welsh legends (modelled obliquely on the Arabian Night) that begins as a "story of Balham and of a family dwelling in Balham who were more Welsh tlian Balhamilish".
  5. These flashbacks to his past in Texas show him making love to a girl whose family seems to object to him, then (in an obliquely filmed sequence) he is gang-raped by a group of yobs.
  6. Its unusually long horns grow slightly backwards and then outwards before sweeping obliquely forwards and often downwards and then inwards towards the face.
  7. To make up these leaf forms, each motif is prepared by first cutting out two rectangles of suitable size having the grain running obliquely at about 45 which are then edge-jointed and taped together.
  8. Nevertheless, though the currents of genuine popular opinion are now even more difficult to evaluate than they had been earlier, given the intensified persecution from 1942 onwards of even relatively trivial "offences" of criticizing the regime or "subverting" the wartime ordinances, every sign points towards the growth in this period of a "silent majority" increasingly critical of the Nazi regime - even if the criticism was often only obliquely expressed - and ready to blame it for the mounting miseries of the war.
  9. Clement's prose puts him in a higher class than any of his extant pagan contemporaries, and he was able obliquely to refute pagan critics (such as Celsus, writing 177-;80) who thought Christians an anti-cultural lot, by decorating his pages with a rich variety of quotations and allusions taken from classical poetry and philosophy.
  10. First, Mr Reagan was returning, albeit obliquely, to his earlier Evil Empire theme.
  11. As a result, as the Earth goes around the sun once every year, its two hemispheres alternate between receiving the sun's rays more directly (in summer) or obliquely (in winter).
  12. The broader truth is that Dostoevsky cannot foster any of his dearest values except obliquely, by stealth, by catching them napping.
  13. No wonder the old boy stares obliquely off the back cover like a guilty-looking Archie Andrews.

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