Examples of oblique angle in a Sentence
The dancer held his leg at an oblique angle to his body.
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And so, offers of help often come at oblique angles.
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Jed Brewer, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025
Characters are shot from the back, or in oblique angles that obscure their faces, and typical reaction shots are few and far between.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024
The novelist comes at this group from an oblique angle.
—Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 11 Sep. 2024
Take the newest Apple Watch, which can be viewed from oblique angles, with an always-on screen that accommodates a ticking seconds hand even when your hand is down.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2024
Long takes and oblique angles lend the solitudes in Schoenbrun’s world a pensive solidity that belies the cold, often flickery glow of the screens in which the characters immure themselves.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024
Nano-prisms view well at an angle Samsung's new nano-prism image has a sensitivity to light sources at more oblique angles compared to some conventional pixel tech today.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2023
For all its abstract shapes and oblique angles, Aromáticas is playful and curious.
—Pitchfork, 7 Dec. 2023
In the ’50s and ’60s, the primal appeal of fluid spaces inspired the French architect Claude Parent to sing the wonders of oblique angles and inclined planes.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Feb. 2023
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Jed Brewer, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025
Characters are shot from the back, or in oblique angles that obscure their faces, and typical reaction shots are few and far between.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024
The novelist comes at this group from an oblique angle.
—Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 11 Sep. 2024
Take the newest Apple Watch, which can be viewed from oblique angles, with an always-on screen that accommodates a ticking seconds hand even when your hand is down.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2024
Long takes and oblique angles lend the solitudes in Schoenbrun’s world a pensive solidity that belies the cold, often flickery glow of the screens in which the characters immure themselves.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024
Nano-prisms view well at an angle Samsung's new nano-prism image has a sensitivity to light sources at more oblique angles compared to some conventional pixel tech today.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2023
For all its abstract shapes and oblique angles, Aromáticas is playful and curious.
—Pitchfork, 7 Dec. 2023
In the ’50s and ’60s, the primal appeal of fluid spaces inspired the French architect Claude Parent to sing the wonders of oblique angles and inclined planes.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Feb. 2023
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“Oblique angle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oblique%20angle. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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