Pelosi, who has criticized AOC -- obliquely and not so obliquely -- since the 29-year-old phenom came to Congress in January, refused to engage with that particular charge.
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So we decided to consider things a little more obliquely.
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She's also upset by his tweets obliquely referencing their breakup.
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Their words describe the essence of each section, if obliquely.
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"It's not good, not good," Salter remembers McCain saying obliquely.
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Costolo responded obliquely calling the report "sensationalist nonsense" on Twitter.
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Cummings appeared to obliquely chide Chaffetz for the proposed referral.
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In a statement that obliquely referenced the ongoing fight, Sen.
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Others touched, however obliquely, on the American presence in Vietnam.
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They have already knocked one another in campaign stops, if obliquely.
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Lucy longs for love; her mother can express it only obliquely.
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If "Prophecy," speaks to her personal travails, it does so obliquely.
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Finance is another activity that is mostly measured obliquely (and badly).
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Ritvo is now permanently located, and obliquely revealed, in his poems.
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Clinton even obliquely mentioned impeachment during his address to the nation.
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The Oscars did come up during our conversation, if only obliquely.
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On Friday, Wang obliquely mentioned Meng, describing "political" actions against individuals.
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Washington buzzed with speculation about Schiff's arresting, but obliquely worded rocket.
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Instead, she says she has always understood God obliquely, as love.
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And so, against my nature, I learned how to communicate obliquely.
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ZB: That's what I was, maybe obliquely, trying to get to.
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The Massachusetts Democrat didn't directly confront Trump, but criticized his message obliquely.
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To call the president a traitor, even obliquely, is shocking in China.
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It's shaping the narrative toward an end that Atwood supplied only obliquely.
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App Annie's "State of Mobile 2019" refers obliquely to "mobile maturity," i.e.
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"I'm an elevator, I make people go up," the man said obliquely.
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Some, like Gander Mountain, a national sporting goods chain, do so obliquely.
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Police referred only obliquely to the #royalmotorcade hashtag in announcing the arrest.
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Hosting lewd jokes and comments that obliquely poked fun at the CCP.
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In fact, artists have their biggest social impact when they achieve it obliquely.
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Indeed, she addressed the issue obliquely in her acceptance speech (she actually spoke).
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Instead, Myanmar's government has spoken obliquely of camps where they might be sequestered.
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Avenatti's lawyers obliquely referred to Epstein's death in their letter Monday to Gardephe.
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And he shot a promo for 'SNL' where he obliquely referred to it.
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Obliquely, they're asking us to take steps toward a world where that isn't possible.
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It also alludes, however obliquely, to the environmental impact of the transoceanic shipping industry.
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Though it doesn't name Apple, it's clear the senators are obliquely referencing the company.
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She comes in contact obliquely with a young trans person who's in high school.
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Hickland obliquely addressed the lie in both his YouTube video and on his Twitter.
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A couple of Republican House members even raised the possibility of impeachment, albeit obliquely.
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Only on occasion, and obliquely, did Landon give voice to her own personal conflicts.
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Asked what the next step in his own political career is, he responded obliquely.
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It is much like looking obliquely at a star in order to see it.
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This month, he brings Lucas Hnath's obliquely political comedy "Hillary and Clinton" to Broadway.
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In his morning speech to them, he listed Mexico's problems directly and assigned blame obliquely.
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And also it was considered outré to obliquely reference Nazi culture in a band name.
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It's obliquely incendiary ... talking about shootings in this political climate, but Lin-Manuel has opinions.
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This outsider status is something of which de la Pava appears to be obliquely proud.
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Under Locke's stewardship, the black arts revolution of the 1920s was undeniably, if obliquely, queer.
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But he offered none, referring only obliquely to the economic and diplomatic challenges confronting China.
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Yet it also dances around the subject obliquely, never really facing the abyss head on.
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He also obliquely laid the blame for the hack at the feet of Russia's president.
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Ms. Sanders seemed to obliquely confirm Monday that Ms. Haspel had briefly entertained second thoughts.
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She caused a stir by criticizing, however obliquely, the commencement speaker, a United States senator.
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A school which avoids differences, directly or obliquely, places education outside the context of living.
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His voice turned cold afterward, she said, when he advised her, obliquely, to keep quiet.
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Trump did obliquely mention investigations, but he did not mention the Russia investigation or Mueller.
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Clips from a few vintage Italian movies also illustrate, at times rather obliquely, Battaglia's anecdotes.
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In a scene where Steve flirts with her, her villainy is obliquely linked to sexual frustration.
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"It is hard for us to trust the media," she says, referring obliquely to Donald Trump.
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During closing arguments, Lanier obliquely reminded jurors about the letter accusing DePuy executives of racist behavior.
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He has touched on them only obliquely, asserting that the F.B.I. is blind to partisan considerations.
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Gallagher himself called them "traitors" and obliquely suggested that they might meet retribution from other SEALs.
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During the On the Run tour, Beyoncé began obliquely referencing rumors of Jay-Z's infidelity onstage.
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Most of their chants were drowned out by Clinton's supporters and the candidate only obliquely mentioned them.
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She has remarried, although like many details of her life, this fact is mentioned only once, obliquely.
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The table's unexpected and natural shape puts all parties at ease and obliquely prevents confrontational discussion angles.
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MANdelbaum!), there are clue shout-outs to Beyoncé at 23D and (somewhat obliquely) Taylor Swift at 34A.
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If the king made any reference to the aftermath of Mr. Khashoggi's killing, it was done obliquely.
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Barr's letter obliquely referenced evidence on both sides of the issue, but did not explain it further.
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But Mr. Netanyahu clearly did not get the memo that Iran was supposed to be discussed obliquely.
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Yes, Judge Bates criticised the rollback as "virtually unexplained" and obliquely scolded the Trump administration for being callous.
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Misumi's adult daughter figures into the story somewhat obliquely as does Shigemori's pouty teenage daughter, Yuka (Aju Makita).
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Identity is the strongest through line in the series, whether addressed obliquely or directly, in fiction or nonfiction.
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What Petey is obliquely referring to, in a meta way, is Laurie's adventures in the Watchmen graphic novel.
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Yet he declined to offer an explicit, ringing celebration of Clinton's candidacy, instead referring to her only obliquely.
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While the narrative portion of the movie references this only obliquely, the interview portion is much more explicit.
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On this cassette release, noisy, metallic sounds threaten to overwhelm the plaintive song to which they are obliquely related.
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The Economist: And so you obliquely talk about an issue in your country by mentioning a parallel in another?
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Obliquely, Ms Han alludes to the 1980 Gwangju massacre of protesters in South Korea—the setting of "Human Acts".
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Vin posted this video, in which he obliquely refers to his war with "Fast 8" co-star The Rock.
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Over email, Girardin answers all of these questions obliquely, by quoting someone who grappled with such questions decades ago.
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Even the pimples I'd seen on her jaw seemed obliquely beautiful, the rosy flame an inner excess made visible.
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"Tropicália" melts down a tuneful carnival march with eerie orchestration, while its lyrics obliquely sketch a nation's cultural manifesto.
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But Mr. Finkielkraut, himself the son of a Holocaust survivor, managed to laud the man obliquely, avoiding the trap.
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The writing in "New Sun" is evocative and tricky, with an unreliable narrator obliquely explaining Wolfe's far-future setting.
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His latest, "Purpose," features production by Skrillex and apologizes, obliquely, for his scandalous behavior since releasing the one before.
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While speaking with reporters on Monday, Mr. Stephenson obliquely raised the issue of possible interference by the White House.
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Many memoirs have at their heart a trauma that must be approached obliquely and transformed into a turning point.
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Each detail adds meaning to a story that builds associatively and obliquely, and often through nods rather than shouts.
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"There was some sadness he had as a child," he said, though Mr. Vollbracht referred to it only obliquely.
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But in theaters throughout this city, other productions were issuing similar pleas, more obliquely perhaps but just as resonantly.
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Other photographers focussed on the passing human comedy, but obliquely, snapping shots with a concealed camera, on the sly.
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The President obliquely referred to Kavanaugh's nomination while talking about the importance of Republican turnout in the midterm elections.
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By speaking expansively about intelligence gathering, Mr. Nunes may have broken the law by disclosing classified information, however obliquely.
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President Donald Trump has compared White House leakers with spies and mused obliquely to other officials about executing them.
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His earlier struggles and professional and personal disappointments are often expressed obliquely and in Dafoe's feverish eyes and attitude.
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Some of the Russian-linked content sought to influence the election obliquely, by inflaming social issues or racial tensions.
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"With a beat, I just go in like, shit, this what grooves me," he says obliquely of his technique.
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Set aside the mass-extinction plot for a moment (which could promote conversation of a spiritual sort, however obliquely).
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He's publicly, if obliquely, attacking his colleagues' thinking in the pages of a journal (a British journal, no less)!
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Now, every press release I received with the word "millennial" seemed to also invoke burnout — some more obliquely than others.
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It would be surprising if he didn't mention something, at least obliquely, during his televised address to the Cuban people.
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Still, there is a haunting dimension to the film that is only obliquely related to the particulars of its setting.
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Taeyoon's robots seem to obliquely remind the observer that a case could be made for AI as a dysfunctional technology.
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Obliquely, Mr Mattarella signalled that he too was appalled by the idea of a snap election—though for different reasons.
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She urged the group to consider diversity when picking the winning directors, obliquely referencing the pair of Kristen and Leo.
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First, he tweeted that his new album would consist of seven songs, then he obliquely tweeted the date June 1.
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" Harm reduction programs were obliquely encouraged by the drug summit, although the summit has deliberately avoided the words "harm reduction.
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President Trump appeared to obliquely confirm the reports in remarks on Monday, insisting that he did not mention Israel directly.
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Only in February did Egypt's president, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, obliquely admit that the crash was an act of terrorism.
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A minor mistake, for Money's race only appears obliquely, after a two-page description of the hospital he is leaving.
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She didn't just obliquely chronicle her family's suffering during Mussolini's reign; all her life she remained politically and socially involved.
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"A judge who likes every outcome he gets is likely a bad judge," he said, obliquely criticizing more-progressive colleagues.
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She discusses these feelings, gruffly and obliquely, with Betty 5 (Chaunté Wayans), while the two work on their trucks together.
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Most recently, he tweeted obliquely about the upcoming horror film The Hunt, a day before the film's release was canceled.
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CNN first spoke with Karen Monahan on Friday and Saturday about social media posts she'd made, some obliquely referencing Ellison.
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We got Michael Jackson's daughter leaving LAX Monday, where she obliquely talked about her move to conquer modeling and Hollywood.
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Since Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto has obliquely compared Trump to Hitler and Mussolini, however, that plan might have some flaws.
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And she hints obliquely at conspiracies ("the economy was flourishing with money suddenly pouring into the country from some obscure source").
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Most artists in this period evoked the body only obliquely, hinting at it through minimalist sculpture or negating it with conceptualism.
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Trump previously responded more obliquely to Khan's convention remarks, in a lightning-round interview with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.
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Despite what Cook said directly, and obliquely, about Facebook, the fact remains that Facebook is an app in Apple's App Store.
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On March 1, 2016, Ryan gained yet more acclaim by obliquely chastising Trump for failing to disavow his white supremacist supporters.
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After obliquely knocking Trump in her delivery of the GOP response to the State of the Union Tuesday, South Carolina Gov.
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Next to the print, a small window of thick tiled glass obliquely admitted the gray light of the building's interior courtyard.
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Local police have not endorsed that theory, and only obliquely reference gang reactions to the attack in Brull-Lopez's arrest report.
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While the update does invoke Starship, it does so obliquely and without naming it, only noting its projected cost per launch.
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But such an attack would almost certainly result in a military response, as General Nakasone obliquely suggested at the Aspen forum.
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Arranged in discrete, scrapbook-like scenes, the narrative (loosely based on Mr. Harbaugh's own family experiences) comes at mourning only obliquely.
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Though Ms. Dacus referred obliquely to "sophomore album worries," she had already meticulously arranged the music and planned a track list.
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His 2016 album, "Skeleton Tree," dealt obliquely but tellingly with personal mourning after the accidental death of his son in 2015.
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The frustration was obliquely mentioned by several high-ranking Republicans in critical or non-plussed statements by the end of the weekend.
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Other Asian nations have begun to express concern, if only obliquely, over U.S.-China ties in the event of a Trump presidency.
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Rather, he is trying to do so obliquely, by "stress-testing" the outputs of trained systems—for example, those assessing job candidates.
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Quietly and obliquely, many of these issues have already been discussed in the months of careful diplomacy leading up to the summit.
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The recent murder of a young Italian student prompted a few to ask, obliquely, whether the state was involved, as evidence suggests.
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But though Trump isn't attacking him, Rubio is facing similar challenges, which Cruz obliquely referenced during the debate on Thursday, as well.
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Rizzla explains this part obliquely, saying that the record was a conscious document of their emotional states over the last few years.
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Flitting through the play, so subtly that you barely notice them, are occasions when deeper philosophical musings are raised obliquely and fleetingly.
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When intelligence officers and generals accuse politicians, even obliquely, of taking their country to the dark side, it's both disquieting and reassuring.
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Abloh answered only obliquely, saying that Lauren had "kind of tipped his hat" to him, and that they'd posed for a photo.
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"It may be that we address this obliquely; it may be that we address this directly at some point," the official said.
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In response to Ms. Thompson, Ms. Minaj started obliquely, posting a list on Twitter of her own songs that she considered mature.
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Such concerns were obliquely alluded to in a scathing resignation letter sent in August by the agency's student loan ombudsman, Seth Frotman.
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The author kindly lists all the measures outlined by this "daring piece of work," which nevertheless touches our protagonist's life only obliquely.
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Diego the tiger not only has a girlfriend voiced by Jennifer Lopez but seems to be obliquely discussing fertility troubles with her?
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Without the question mark, it's hard to approach the clue obliquely, especially as the phrase "bug catcher" is legitimate on its own.
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On the Verge Cinga Samson's surreal canvases engage obliquely with his identity, but stand alone as testaments to his finely honed craft.
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She teared up explaining what she usually refers to more obliquely as "a traumatic event," apologized, and then quickly regained her composure.
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In Djibouti, even the commander of U.S. armed forces in Africa has appealed — if obliquely — for greater caution in dealing with China.
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That's an idea that Mindhunter — another Netflix show about the true crime stories we tell ourselves — explores, however obliquely, in its first episode.
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But instead of offering a scene in which that change is telegraphed explicitly through conversation, a series of scenes builds the realization obliquely.
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In the American pavilion melancholy blackish-purple works by Mark Bradford, an African-American artist, refer obliquely to slavery and the migration crisis.
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She was ever aware of that tension, proceeding obliquely and open-eyed, like the soft-pawed Birman cats who really ruled her house.
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In 2010, Heaney started to deal with this Virgilian fragment obliquely, publishing "Human Chain", his last full collection before his death in 2013.
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Trump went on to obliquely defend his embattled executive order barring immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, currently suspended by a federal court.
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In an April 2017 report, Facebook alluded obliquely to this observation when it said its own conclusions were consistent with the U.S. government's.
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He explained it as "a serial intervallic language" ruled partly by mathematical principles and inspired, obliquely, by the 20th-century composer Edgard Varèse.
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The phrase's use in Milkman chimes with the rest of its politics, which are done obliquely, out of the corner of Burns's mouth.
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Later on Wednesday, an unknown person provided The Times with what appeared to be the email Mr. Leahy had been obliquely referring to.
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Some ads talk about the Affordable Care Act directly, but many gesture at it more obliquely, with talk of pre-existing conditions alone.
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The younger women are learning, however obliquely, to line themselves up with men, to put themselves in the context of a man's world.
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Powell obliquely suggested that the July cut was not the start of a series of rate cuts, but he had difficulty explaining why.
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He spoke obliquely of "difficulties we encounter in our work" because of the Gaza blockade and the "unstable situation" on the West Bank.
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In the end, Cuarón's episode, "Murder, Obliquely," won a CableACE Award for best directing, paving the way for the rest of his career.
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Khaled's not telling a story about them so much as tapping, obliquely, into an oppressive national mood and purportedly liberating Hassane from it.
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Later, in a question-and-answer session with the mayors, the president did address the protests, obliquely, and largely to complain about them.
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LONDON — The actor Johnny Depp is the latest American entertainment figure to suggest — however jokingly, ironically or obliquely — the killing of President Trump.
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Later, he will obliquely refer to his desire to win the Champions League with "whichever team I am playing for," before giggling again.
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Over the years, Yiadom-Boakye has responded in paint, but also in writing, though always obliquely, as she seems to respond to everything.
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Then before sundown on Friday, Mr. Netanyahu's office responded obliquely that he looked forward to his meeting with Mr. Trump, set for Feb.
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The political churnings of the past year — in the United States, in Britain, in Italy and in France — have all registered, however obliquely.
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Two years into that time, Carrère wrote his final short novel, "Class Trip," one obliquely related, in its abject theme, to Romand's violence.
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The indictment did not mention Giuliani at all, even obliquely, making it unclear whether his conduct was in fact a focus of SDNY's investigation.
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Mr Frayn obliquely notes that "the discerning theatregoer will feel instantly at home" spotting the door-crammed set at the beginning of "Noises Off".
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It was kind of a blank slate, because the first film really has a very complex mythology, but it hints at it very obliquely.
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The situation was not much beautified by the exhibition, which, leaning toward colorless abstraction and dry conceptualism, refers obliquely to various ideas about language.
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This likely refers obliquely to at least Windows HoloLens, if not other products also on the horizon like whatever Magic Leap ends up releasing.
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Mr. Huang, 61, worked in the Tianjin government for nearly 13 years, and the paper obliquely warned officials there against grumbling about his ouster.
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The melding of memoir and artifice called autofiction; the fondness for fragments; the evasive, obliquely wounded female narrator; the excavations into trauma, addiction, maternity.
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The political situation is only obliquely described, and we never discover precisely what role this young woman was performing, or what happened to her.
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The place of women in her home region, and of sexual and gender roles generally, comes up in her work a lot, sometimes obliquely.
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Even if Trump had worded his request obliquely, the circumstances were damning: The president had cornered Comey at a private one-on-one dinner.
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Except for these passages, everything we'll learn about him arrives obliquely and in fragments, stories told to that invisible narrator by seven invented characters.
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It was November in Iowa, and Pete Buttigieg was having a moment, rising in polls and talking—not quite obliquely—about his military service.
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CreditCreditRonan Donovan for The New York Times Con Slobodchikoff and I approached the mountain meadow slowly, obliquely, softening our footfalls and conversing in whispers.
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Several of contemporary photography's favorite arguments and concerns are addressed, either obliquely or directly, in Michele Abeles's smart, seductive show "Zebra," at 47 Canal.
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She occasionally speaks of her own experience with therapy, and in the interview, she spoke obliquely of her brief return to treatment last year.
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When Harder does obliquely refer to his time at Bessemer, he tries to pivot to his record on job creation (much like Romney did).
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Still, make no mistake: This is a specific victory for women in hip-hop, but it also obliquely carries a win for hip-hop overall.
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It has also pointed obliquely to Tyrion — since there's speculation that Tyrion isn't Tywin's son, but instead the child of the Mad King Aerys Targaryen.
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The opening song, the introduction to what's supposed to be the peppier side of things, deals obliquely—and at times awkwardly—with molestation and PTSD.
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Head bowed, Paul approaches Esther like a sly supplicant, advancing obliquely; she, in turn, appears haughty and amused as she looks down from her perch.
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One is split into two distinct, obliquely related parts (another Hong Sang-soo signature), while the other plays with time in a more subtle way.
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Independent Iranian films have obliquely addressed the country's theocratic rule, and in the cases of filmmakers like Jafar Panahi, they have been imprisoned or censored.
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The Projection Clones are only able to communicate obliquely, blowing little whistles hung around their necks to try and get attention or direct the workforce.
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SZA's chosen realm was a hazy place of echoes and hollows, of unreal tones and disembodied voices (her own), of obliquely sketched feelings and situations.
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Such ties are often referenced only obliquely by Israeli government ministers as "shared interests" in the security and intelligence realms against the common Iranian threat.
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That is approached obliquely here with a silhouette of a bearded man taken while Ms. Qasimi was on assignment as a photojournalist in Olathe, Kan.
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Indeed, he obliquely admits this in the 2009 Minnesota Law Review Article, writing: This is not something I necessarily thought in the 1980s or 1990s.
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As alluded to obliquely in the intro above, the twist in this comic is careful, quiet, elegant, and completely earth-shaking for the DC Universe.
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Audi's temporary CEO Bram Schot did not directly address Stadler's arrest while onstage at the San Francisco event, and only obliquely referenced Audi's role in Dieselgate.
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"They seem to be obliquely in favour of a strong dollar, emphasizing the capital account surplus and the jobs the capital inflow might create," he added.
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By 2012, the motto was obliquely the target of a controversial 30 Rock episode dealing with the pitfalls of turning in your neighbors for suspected terrorism.
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The terrorists would take advantage of Conway, he tells his opponent, obliquely referencing the guilt and shame he must feel about what happened overseas with Squire.
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He said that extremists groups threaten the West's "way of life" and obliquely defended the administration's travel ban that restricts immigration from some Muslim majority countries.
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But the issue is so delicate that government spokesmen would not even admit that the latest death had occurred, or say who it was — except obliquely.
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And that when Erika and Oliver bring up the subject obliquely, pre-barbecue, they have lit the fuse to much more trouble than they can imagine.
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Both "Lewiston" and "Clarkston" talk obliquely about Lewis, Clark and their expedition, but Mr. Hunter said they use this tight focus to raise far broader ideas.
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His single completed opera, an abstract chamber spectacle called "Kopernikus" (1979) but related only obliquely to the great astronomer, had its American premiere just last year.
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Our photog asked Schmidt flat out if the "attack" was staged, and she answered obliquely, saying there were moving parts and she didn't want to speculate.
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His earlier abstract work was in a way very successful in obliquely referencing these issues, but he has taken now upon himself a more difficult challenge.
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Much more eye-catching are the jerseys that incorporate — however obliquely and oddly — a little national culture or emblem: Japan's Samurai spots are the perfect example.
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A few films in competition touch on current events, if only obliquely, including "Loveless," the latest by Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev, which has received rave reviews.
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"A Letter" obliquely suggests some of that dramatic life with simulated street fights, a hospital bed and a fashion catwalk amid artfully arranged fragments of dance.
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And it's also, obliquely, about being black in America and trying to keep the camera rolling so a systemic history of racism won't catch up to you.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them.
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Their shapes — not exactly circular — have some kinship with the off-kilter quasi-circles in Jean Arp's sculptures, paintings, and woodcuts; they also obliquely suggest gibbous moons.
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But he did make one important point, albeit obliquely, about the connection between China's suppression of democratic protest and the place it holds in the global economy.
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It's unlikely that Eggleston would be unaware of the themes his work suggests, and yet his vision remains detached; themes like segregation are dealt with only obliquely.
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" Secondly, he noted, perhaps obliquely referencing the ominous threats from al-Qaeda, "[W]e have received reports that there are possibilities of terrorist attacks in our country.
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His two most controversial proposals — building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and banning non-citizen Muslims from entering the U.S. — were referred to only obliquely.
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It's filled with Ms. Akerman's signatures, like images of doorways, halls and obliquely shot rooms, which can make her seem like a spy in her mother's house.
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Wojcicki used the Brandcast event to obliquely address some of the problems YouTube has faced, including questions over inappropriate kids' videos and conspiracy theories on the platform.
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Yet every performance here glows with a compelling, specifically embodied mixture of trepidation and hope, as the characters bicker and cosset, obliquely assigning blame and offering support.
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Even the state-run news media and some supporters of Mr. Xi have begun to obliquely acknowledge that the pressure on the officials is taking a toll.
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The result was surreal: Australian media outlets either obliquely referred to the conviction of an unnamed person, or simply chose not to report the news at all.
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Several amendments refer obliquely to a right to vote, but that right is not actually spelled out like the right to speech or to bear arms is.
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Still, there's no ignoring the transcendence of a great photograph or the value of finding form for thoughts (a subject that Mother touches on obliquely and affectingly).
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Because, as he obliquely references in our conversation, he was involved in Atlanta's drug trade, Gucci Mane, Jeezy, and Rocko took on additional significance in his life.
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Their identity as disposable, ephemeral things is obliquely mirrored by the use of stitching, which is to say a non-studio activity that can be done anywhere.
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He also appeared to question, albeit obliquely, the plan of the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, to amend the clause of the constitution that commits Japan to pacifism.
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Running for re-election and dogged by a sometimes tense relationship with reporters, he obliquely mentioned newspaper articles that had discussed Mr. Caughman's relatively minor criminal record.
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On the law, Mr. Barr's letter also obliquely suggests that he consulted with the Office of Legal Counsel, the elite Justice Department office that interprets federal statutes.
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But, Corbett added, "we suggest families consider (United Tissue) first because they are local and time delay is critical," obliquely referring to the fact that bodies decompose quickly.
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Assange has pledged — albeit obliquely — that he would leave Ecuador's London embassy, and submit himself for possible extradition to the United States if Chelsea Manning's sentence was commuted.
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One already-infamous scene in the first episode overtly depicts an incestuous relationship between the mischievous Kuragin siblings, Anatole and Hélène—something that Tolstoy only obliquely alluded to.
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Neochrome In a solo presentation, the sculptor Jamie Sneider offers an elegant, obliquely feminist contribution to the never-ending tradition of riffing on Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" of 20163.
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The presidential campaign was mentioned on Thursday only when people exhorted those watching to pull together around the eventual nominee — or obliquely begged them to not lose hope.
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So on Tuesday, Fox News took the unusual step of releasing a statement that obliquely criticized Hannity and Pirro while not indicating any punishment would be meted out.
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A series of monumental multisectional images, several of them landscapes, collectively titled "Public Sex" (1995-1998) and featuring no figures at all, addressed the provocative title only obliquely.
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Each song doesn't really tell a story, but instead hints at one obliquely, often through inventive language ("sky above a palace joy/we beneath in un-ballast loving").
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Not a radical reinvention so much as a dash through a side door, it finds her working with some of the same melodic angularities and obliquely personal lyrics.
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They prefer you handle the issue obliquely by addressing envelopes only to the parties you want to invite and placing your no-child policy on your wedding website.
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On the contrary; this year's Cannes selections frequently addressed — sometimes obliquely, sometimes not — the deep divisions and anxieties that are keeping people around the world up at night.
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While Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang obliquely acknowledged Trump's online posts at a press briefing Monday, government censors were busy blocking screenshots of the tweets across Chinese social media.
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In the call, Trump's attorney obliquely referenced Flynn's cooperation, asked for a "heads up" if he would implicate Trump, and said he should remember Trump's positive feelings toward him.
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When the Supreme Court first weighed in on that question in 1982, the justices ruled rather obliquely that IDEA requires students "to benefit educationally" from the instruction they receive.
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This made sense, kind of obliquely, as an immediate response to San Bernardino — one of the shooters, Syed Farook, was an American citizen who had traveled to Saudi Arabia.
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The organization suddenly apologized for an incident that they initially dismissed as a fabrication and acknowledged — albeit obliquely — the connection between the outburst and Osuna's history of domestic assault.
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PATIENCE This year, the committee first acknowledged problems obliquely after its meeting at the end of January and then more explicitly at its recently concluded meeting on March 20.
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But those doyens of capitalism seem to ignore that America's central government has been "picking winners and losers," both directly and obliquely, since the earliest days of the republic.
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Trump obliquely confirmed that he doesn't see Russian hacking as a major problem in a later tweet from Hamburg: Sanctions were not discussed at my meeting with President Putin.
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In his own statement, Mr. Tambor referred obliquely to his own sense of discomfort with what was happening on "Transparent," saying that a "politicized atmosphere" had afflicted the set.
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Dr. Son said the Facebook comment that got him in the most trouble was a short question he posed last September under a cartoon that obliquely criticized the government.
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When she obliquely admits that she was among the ninth-grade girls with whom local football players "had their way" in the woods, Willis's reaction is sensible and mature.
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On the opening day of the meeting, she was in the 10th row of the congress hall to listen to President Trump, who addressed the 23-year-old obliquely.
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But that's what was so revealing about the GOP's image on Wednesday: It no longer needs to say, explicitly or obliquely, which people -- or rather, person -- it stands for.
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This strange and disorientating artefact, created by Conrad Shawcross with music by Mylo, immediately (if obliquely) stirs the memory of anyone who can recall the early days of rave.
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The fund's statement praised Mr. Zelensky but also noted obliquely that releasing the aid would hinge on the president's breaking with an oligarch and former business partner, Ihor Kolomoisky.
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She's singing, obliquely, about not wanting to take privilege for granted — "I wear a crown/with my head down" — and dancing on a rooftop with two darker-skinned men.
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Tegan and Sara's two new projects engage obliquely with a question we seem to be getting worse rather than better at answering: How old are 16-year-olds, really?
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Perhaps the most persistent rumor around Weinstein is the one about Rose McGowan, mostly because it's the only one that one of the involved parties has (obliquely) commented on.
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She selects images from a large library of slides related to Afro-futurism and experimental Black culture that create a dialogue with the audio collage, either obliquely or directly.
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She referred briefly and obliquely in a 30-minute speech to her "esteemed opponent" without naming him and focused instead squarely on the Republicans, without naming any of them either.
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At a narrow but crucial level, Ryan's admitting obliquely that the party depends on white nationalists for its survival and appealing to their sensibilities creates problems—something most Republicans deny.
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Yet Mr Guadagnino frames things so obliquely (these characters rarely state what they are actually feeling) that we perceive their fumbling towards and away from love as an internalised oppression.
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Here he grasps the meanings of Grant's interactions with other officers under their gruff military cover, knowing when Grant is obliquely threatening someone and when he is really praising him.
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Just three percent of stories even obliquely referenced the value of teacher pensions, and not a single one mentioned teacher vacation time or the length of the teacher work year.
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And yet aside from a single tweet that obliquely referenced the wall Wednesday morning, the President has been largely silent -- and has not counter punched on personal terms at all.
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"Background" briefings — where officials express opinions or describe events while shielded by agreements that they will be identified obliquely as, say, "sources familiar with the matter" — have long been common.
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They called Dr. Rodchenkov, who fled to the United States, a traitor and insisted that his account was fabricated while obliquely acknowledging doping was a "black spot" on the country.
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But "Prototype" presents what story it has so obliquely that it makes Shane Carruth's challenging 2013 sci-fi film "Upstream Color" look like "The Sands of Iwo Jima" in comparison.
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"Magdalene," a song cycle delegated among 14 female composers, draws its text from poetry by Marie Howe that explores women's lives, obliquely, through the virgin-whore archetype of Mary Magdalene.
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In her exhibition of new works at Recess | Assembly, Sable Elyse Smith addresses — sometimes obliquely, sometimes directly — what it was like for her to grow up with an incarcerated parent.
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Some writers who once felt bold enough to tackle political and social issues, however obliquely, have been reluctant to publish their work, or have started self-censoring to avoid trouble.
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Clinton did not criticize her rival or even refer to him obliquely as she reiterated her call for tougher gun laws, an issue that she usually uses to attack Mr. Sanders.
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In the United States we approach integration only obliquely and partially, allowing it to happen a bit in universities and a few kinds of workplaces, even as few neighborhoods are affected.
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Really though, it helps mitigate the risk associated with Siri's biggest shortcoming, because it means you'll have all new ways of obliquely interacting with the assistant that don't require voice recognition.
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Sniper, for example, or Driver, or Thief, though frustratingly, it insists on referring to them obliquely by code names, like "Inferno" or "Duke," without ever connecting those names to their faces.
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"Real Life" and its successor "To Survive" (2008) were beguiling records that dealt obliquely with Ms Wasser's painful past and her coming to terms with it, as hinted by their titles.
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There really is a new Supra coming, which Toyota obliquely confirmed in the press release for the new GR Supra Racing Concept that's being shown off at the Geneva Motor Show.
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When Legion decided to reference Charles Xavier (albeit obliquely, for now), it didn't concern itself with matching the version of him we saw in First Class or the original X-Men.
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He appeared to obliquely confirm that the bureau is conducting an internal investigation into apparent leaks to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) about the investigation during the campaign.
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Comey appeared to obliquely confirm that he was looking into whether FBI agents had leaked information to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, an adviser and surrogate for Trump's campaign.
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She has recordings of Wim obliquely acknowledging his role in the murder of Cor and in other slayings, and naming one of the individuals who was directly involved in killing Cor.
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Niko Wenner: I had the most fun with the concept for The Narcotic Story, where the music strengthens and clarifies the drama that is otherwise fairly obliquely outlined by the lyrics.
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"You'd rather see me die than outgrow you," Elektra tells Stick and Murdock, referring to her training and obliquely touching on how both men want to control her and her destiny.
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A lot of comedy today is obliquely about depression, but the comedian Gary Gulman goes for it head-on in his new special, where he describes his lifelong mental health struggles.
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Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has used the moment to highlight his longstanding antiwar credentials — and to point out, obliquely and explicitly, Mr. Biden's vote to authorize the war in Iraq.
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Over the summer, Dutch air carrier KLM launched an environmental campaign that obliquely acknowledged the flying shame movement, encouraging customers to "fly responsibly" and to be judicious about their air travel.
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He knows how to spot code words that obliquely refer to Chinese leaders and scandals, or the memes that touch on subjects the Chinese government doesn't want people to read about.
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Mr. Kennedy obliquely referred to that report at the end of his questioning, asking whether any of the nominees before him had ever blogged in support of the Ku Klux Klan.
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"The Ninth Wave", the obliquely related tale of a person overboard in the sea trying to survive the night, is pure magic, and a triumphant vindication of the narrative mode she loves.
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And on December 4, Gaines obliquely tweeted about the controversy, implying that he and his family are standing by the church: In times of trouble.. you'll find the gaines family at church.
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" Minutes after Diab's post, Kaepernick obliquely chimed in on the erroneous report as well: "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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Though they spent much of the first season either ignoring or (at most) obliquely acknowledging their sexual tension, Will (Josh Charles) and Alicia (Julianna Margulies) allowed themselves to act on their passions.
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Jones suggests, albeit obliquely, that perhaps the Bridget Jones films could also let go of their rigid notions of what constitutes a family, and let Bridget raise her child on her own.
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The app faces competition, at least obliquely, from a plethora of small copycats, and streaming music services like Spotify, SoundCloud and Pandora, where users can find a fair amount of meditative sounds.
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"Jared's actually become much more famous than me ... I'm a little upset about that," Trump said obliquely, referring to the headline-grabbing allegations surrounding his son-in-law's contacts with Russian officials.
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Mr. Obama referred obliquely to the controversy, asking the crowd gathered on a tree-lined boulevard to permit him to "just vent for a second" about the questions dominating the presidential campaign.
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He does not need to take such a drastic action — not yet — but the prospect of his doing so, even if conveyed obliquely, might persuade his running mate to broker a withdrawal.
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Jim Mattis, whose resignation sent shockwaves through the US military and its allies last year, opted to answer questions about political leaders like President Trump obliquely at a Tuesday think tank event.
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But Amazon executives, during their testimony, referred obliquely to the company's displeasure at the local opposition that has greeted it and appeared to entertain the idea of backing away from the deal.
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Tony Podesta stepped down from his firm hours after it was obliquely referenced in the indictments of Mr. Manafort and Mr. Gates, though he had been in talks about leaving for months.
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Unlike other animals, bred specifically for consumption or to help with tasks, cats never underwent a targeted taming process as much as they fashioned themselves to fit, however obliquely, into human lives.
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Jesse Eisenberg (who played Zuckerberg) is flat-out brilliant as an actor, author, and humorist for The New Yorker, so it was with pleasure I could obliquely tip my hat his way.
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For months, the two candidates eyed each other warily from opposite ends of the Democratic Party's ideological and generational spectrum, obliquely competing for bigger crowds but rarely facing off in direct attacks.
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The two had an entertaining back-and-forth that started when McCollum obliquely criticized Durant for jumping to a ready-made contender when he signed with the Golden State Warriors in 2016.
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Earlier this month, North Korea warned obliquely it would send the US a "Christmas gift," but what that present contains will depend on the outcome of ongoing talks between Washington and Pyongyang.
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The great unmentioned Nowhere in Trump's speech did he address -- even obliquely -- the special counsel investigation into Russia's attempted meddling in the 2016 election and possible collusion with members of his campaign.
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While the "Chun-Li" emcee discussed the scuffle two days later on her Queen radio show on Apple Music's Beats 1, Cardi has only addressed their feud obliquely via social media — until now.
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Roberto Rosario, the government official charged with overseeing the registration of Dominicans of Haitian descent, has warned obliquely that an invasion in the guise of a "humanitarian intervention" might be on its way.
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And in Ladivine, when deaths occur they are handled so obliquely that it takes a second or third reading to understand exactly when and how somebody moved from one realm to the next.
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Dialog, which has previously declined to name Apple, referring to it only obliquely as its "largest customer" or its "main business", said it had received a special dispensation from Apple to mention it.
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Only this year did Mr Peres obliquely acknowledge it, saying that it made the Arabs realise that the Jewish state couldn't be obliterated, thus laying the foundations for at least a partial peace.
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In a raucous, often dark speech to law enforcement officials on Long Island about the government's response to MS-13, President Trump obliquely addressed the palace intrigue swirling around his White House staff.
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Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to lack as many answers as the people they seek to depict.
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At a Tennessee Republican rally and at a White House event last week, Trump obliquely criticized McCain for not supporting a Senate bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare, provoking boos from the crowd.
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But if you just try to serve the work — focusing on each concrete task and doing it the way it's supposed to be done — then you'll end up, obliquely, serving the community more.
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Affleck hinted at the project — if obliquely — during a press conference last month for Batman v Superman, acknowledging that he'd learned a lot from director Zack Snyder during the making of the film.
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Orenstein also obliquely addressed arguments from some critics that the FBI has tried to use the courts to force a policy on encryption that it has been unable to persuade Congress to adopt.
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Stories — dealing, obliquely, with themes of urban development and everything that accompanies it, good and bad — are sung and spoken by 1,000 performers plucked from professional and amateur choirs from around New York.
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And there's no sign that Trump -- who kept coming back to the issue on Twitter throughout the football season and even, obliquely, during his State of the Union address Tuesday -- is letting up.
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Monday obliquely pushed back against President Donald Trump's pressure to aggressively slash interest rates, quoting a predecessor's insistence that the Fed must be "absolutely free" from politics.
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The Journal said the alleged incident and settlement were mentioned obliquely in court documents filed in a lawsuit brought by the casino owner's former wife over control of her stock in the company.
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The artists are racially diverse, and present an array of media, content, subject, and conceptual concerns — some directly parody whiteness, others address it obliquely, some seem to have just woken up to it.
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The artist focuses on the destruction of cultural heritage as a way to obliquely reference human losses, deliberately differentiating his sculptures from the originals by using packaging from Middle Eastern food and Arabic newspapers.
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Le lit de la vierge (1970) would push this even further, placing the figures of Christ and Mary Magdalene against a barren Moroccan landscape in a parable that obliquely reflects thwarted post-revolutionary desires.
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As part of an effort to determine what kinds of tool marks could be found on Greek marble sculpture, he devised a special lamp that shines obliquely on an object, highlighting its surface relief.
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The need to protect choice obliquely to satisfy the commerce clause test leads to a second potential obstacle to a federal response, which is that any resulting legislation is likely to be quite technical.
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Camp runs on irony, because it's all about speaking obliquely, saying the opposite of what you mean (Effie only pretends that she only cares about wigs, since actually she cares about wigs and workers).
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In comments that appeared late on Saturday, Mr. Lu acknowledged that Longmay workers' wages were overdue and obliquely blamed subordinates for his earlier misleading statement, according to a report on a Heilongjiang government website.
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Most of the people who were worried were groups Trump had repeatedly targeted, directly or obliquely, in campaign speeches—Muslims, refugees, immigrants, those who had gotten health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act.
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The shapes of these monochrome works (and their titles) refer obliquely to exterior sources; some may be entirely abstract, but even those seem to be motivated by observation of mechanical and/or natural forms.
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Close to the surface of the case, although only obliquely confronted during the argument, is whether the clinics' operating model is properly described as luring women inside by pretending to be something they're not.
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"Ultra Pink" imagines a version of easy listening where you're implicated in your placidity—"Don't tell me I'm some kind of woman," Hulett pleads obliquely—forcing you to take ownership of your own comfort.
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Tange's arena — with its high mast and violently sloping roof, its form like a discus emerging obliquely from the earth — was a masterpiece of engineering, and remains the most breathtaking example of Japanese Modernism.
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Former President Barack Obama broke his self-imposed political silence for an obliquely worded but directly aimed statement calling out his successor, issuing a four paragraph statement condemning racism and leaders who foster it.
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But on Wednesday, a jubilant Mr. Trump, fresh from his meeting with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, appeared to signal, however obliquely, that soccer could unify Canada and its erstwhile best friend.
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American military officials urged Congress to put more money into programs they obliquely hailed in open testimony as "left of launch" techniques — so called because they rely on sabotaging launchers before they are fired.
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At its best, a big ensemble piece like this feels like a symphony — this story rises in importance, and it gives increased prominence to this story, and then both comment obliquely on another story.
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Multiple UN officials and diplomats who requested anonymity in order to speak frankly told VICE News that there is strong resistance from Riyadh to any new resolution on Yemen that even obliquely references potential wrongdoing.
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I've been really moved by how many of you have got in touch to express support for what I am obliquely going to refer to as my "family news" over the last month or so.
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" Wicca Phase, one of GBC's founders, expressed his thoughts a bit more obliquely captioning Goya's gory painting "Saturn Devouring His Son" with the phrase: "accurate depiction of the relationship between major labels and their artists.
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In addition to Mueller, the US attorney's office for the Southern District of New York obliquely referred to the President as "Individual 1" in the campaign finance prosecution of Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney.
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"If the VIX starts to go really high, that means equities are going to be in trouble," Schlossberg added, obliquely referring to the negative correlation between the volatility index and the S&P 500 itself.
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DON'T mention Angela Merkel, climate change awareness, tough UK gun laws, Robert Mueller, the Trump baby blimp, Russia, China, Venezuela, Amazon, Steve Bannon, asylum seekers, or anything alluding however obliquely to the incarceration of infants.
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But while scholarly essays in the hefty, 320-page catalog do just that, the show itself only partly and obliquely brings out the most interesting issues relating to women and the art of Gustav Klimt.
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Mr. Biden, who is himself facing intense questions about his 1970s opposition to school busing, handled Mr. Hollings's evolution on race delicately in his speech, referring only obliquely to the senator's earlier support for segregation.
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The important end marker for me actually was less the financial crash — the book obliquely refers to that, but it ends right before Occupy Wall Street, which seems to me like another sort of bookend.
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The president criticized Mr. Flake only obliquely in the speech — "Nobody knows who the hell he is," Mr. Trump said — and waited until Wednesday morning to take aim at the senator by name on Twitter.
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Working from an obliquely 1940s silhouette, with strong, squared-off shoulders (as in "carry the world on…") and a defined, curving waist (for men as well as women) he gave sophistication a missile-sharp precision.
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"(The podcast) is a nice brand story… it has got something interesting to say, but also obliquely it links to this notion of us doing a bit more of a push on injustice," Evans said.
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The Chancellor obliquely referenced Russia's capabilities while discussing the hack of French TV station TV5 Monde, an attack ostensibly by a terror group but which security experts belive may have been carried out by Russia.
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Many of the works on display explicitly or obliquely refer to the AIDS crisis including ACT UP/Gran Fury's neon rendition of their iconic and proselytizing SILENCE = DEATH poster campaign (displayed by the museum's entrance).
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It suited the music the Chicago-based independent label has issued over the years: freaked-out, wide-eyed, with an ear bent ever so obliquely toward the traditionally unit-moving sounds of rock and pop.
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The closest that smoking weed comes to enhancing sporting ability is when it coincides with a seven-hour session on FIFA, which some suit over at WADA might argue obliquely increases tactical awareness and thumb agility.
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Untouchable reminds us of that with a few pop culture references — like a 2012 scene from 30 Rock — that not-so-obliquely referenced Weinstein's predatory behavior on young women hoping to make it big in Hollywood.
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It was also during that period, she told me in 2015 — when I wrote a profile of her for BuzzFeed News in which we spoke about Weinstein obliquely — that he blacklisted her from the movie business.
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Conroy told the New York Times he believed he had been fired because of perceived liberal sympathies, most notably a prayer he gave last November in which he appeared to obliquely criticize Ryan's tax cut plans.
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In an email from September 2015, Podesta obliquely referenced previous "terrible decisions," though it was unclear what specifically he was referring to amid another storm of criticism over Clinton's private server use as secretary of state.
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Then there's the striking "Look at Me," a lazily sinister song that obliquely tries to pull apart gun violence, which in turn brushes up against "California Bride," a sweet guitar-pop song with a perfect hook.
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He once memorably described his 20s as "gay hell": a haze of alcohol and drug abuse, anonymous sex and emotional nihilism, which he touted obliquely in songs like "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk," his ode to decadence.
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They struggle to make a living while fighting off the seductive escape of alcohol and drug addiction, with some faring better than others; Ms. Nottage obliquely addresses the slow gutting of the once-mighty union movement.
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Mr. Ashbery was attracted to themes of hesitancy, doubt and uncertainty (John Keats was an early and lingering influence), and he wrote movingly if obliquely on the difficulties of self-perception and the burden of aging.
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Like the film, however, "Die Zehn Gebote" often leaves the viewer to meditate on the relationship between the kitchen-sink realism of the individual tales and the biblical injunctions to which they are joined, however obliquely.
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But in his opening monologue, the host, Woody Harrelson, obliquely addressed its subtext — whether intentionally or not — in a riff about immigration, cultural sensitivities and comedians who are constantly called on to say they are sorry.
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Wray obliquely criticized the bombshell news conference given by his predecessor last July, when he announced that there would be no charges in the Clinton email investigation — but he heavily criticized the former secretary of State.
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The costs are mostly paid by the Russian people and, obliquely, by most other nations, especially Russia's neighbors, because the price of constant uncertainty is punishingly expensive military spending and rising threats to peace and prosperity.
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"So the mayor just recently held a fundraiser that was held in a wine cave full of crystals and [that] served $900-a-bottle wine," Warren began — after obliquely referencing Buttigieg's fundraising practices a moment earlier.
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Trump also obliquely suggested that Cruz's father, Rafael, might have been involved in the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy because a picture existed showing someone resembling the elder Cruz and Lee Harvey Oswald together.
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In this new body of work, Adams has taken considerable risks exposing Baltimore's racist and Confederate roots, taking on a unique brand of structural racism and obliquely linking it to the violence Baltimore continues to face today.
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In his fondness for both place and bloodshed, Bill resembles two other hard, charismatic fathers in recent novels that respond obliquely to the political moment— Daddy in Fiona Mozley's "Elmet" and Mac in Benjamin Myers's "Pig Iron".
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Trump didn't express remorse—he even obliquely declared that he will "never back down" on matters of principle—but the fact that Curiel went unmentioned was taken as a signal that Trump is prepared to move on.
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When he writes "Blinky Palermo" in white paint on a scrap of wood and affixes it to the front of a moody abstract painting, the browns and the dark and pale greens obliquely evoke the German artist.
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The politics of the war are addressed obliquely, if at all: "You're lucky if they don't kill you in your sleep," one Southern quasi belle whispers of the Small household's slaves, and the dialogue moves no further.
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It's better coming up from the PATH trains, where riders pass through a kind a vestibule (beneath the tracks for the No. 1 train) before stepping up to the nave of the Oculus, which appears suddenly, obliquely.
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Toward the end, a shimmering chorale from 1542 obliquely appears, the unheard text of which translates to: You hear me notat night I find no peace for you conceal as much as it pains me your countenance.
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Speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee's hearing on Russia's interference in the presidential election, Rogers and National Intelligence Director James Clapper both obliquely warned the president-elect about consequences from his critiques of the intelligence community.
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Hence the moment when George W. Bush obliquely criticized Trump in a speech he gave in October and many Democrats looked back at him with sudden nostalgia: At least he gave the appearance of respecting the system.
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The photographic term "flashes" also applies to the method of Cole's 2012 novel, "Open City," which arranges its incidents somewhat obliquely, in an episodic rhythm based on psychological discovery rather than adventure or suspense: an introspective picaresque.
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So, we assume, do his parents, though this possibility lurks only in the back alleys of their minds, unarticulated or obliquely expressed (his father, a flamboyant homophobe, calls him the name of a gay reality-TV character).
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Westworld Perhaps the bleakest in a catalog loaded with bleak albums, Radiohead's "Kid A" closes with "Motion Picture Soundtrack," a song that obliquely suggests the end of a relationship but is, more broadly, about disillusionment and death.
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Both of these moons have been observed obliquely during flybys conducted as part of other missions (Voyager 2 took a peep at Triton in 1989) but this is the first time they'd get probes devoted to them.
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He addressed the only development obliquely in a speech on Monday afternoon, accusing Democrats of trying to "pre-commit the Senate to redoing House Democrats' slapdash work for them, and pursuing avenues" that the House did not.
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I gradually got to be pretty decent: a cagey lefty with a deceptive forehand boast, a shot spanked into the sidewall that ricochets obliquely off the front wall just above the tin, squash's version of a net.
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Trump's success really has been, in large part, due to his willingness to appeal directly to the concerns many Americans have about globalization and demographic change, while establishment politicians are only willing to refer to them obliquely.
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Luis Camnitzer's 1983 Uruguayan Torture Series — painstaking photo etchings that obliquely depict the Uruguayan military dictatorship's brutal use of torture — are installed near San Antonio-born artist Alejandro Diaz's playful neon sign "Make Tacos not War" (2007).
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Obviously, there are many variations on this theme — sardonic novels like "Catch-22," or narratives that only obliquely reference war like "The Sun Also Rises" — but much of literature adheres to this basic framework and its moralism.
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Put briefly, Asians worry about having to choose between the U.S. and China, while Beijing just wants the U.S. out of Asia — an objective obliquely formulated in terms of an unwelcome interference of outside forces in Asian affairs.
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I watched her headlining appearance at WaWa's Welcome America concert on July 4, and along with taking time to obliquely address the drama in her personal life, it seemed like she spent most of her time onstage dancing.
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Some were hinted at, if only obliquely, by Rick Owens, who commissioned Ms. Morris (Salvjiia) to create makeup for his fall 2019 runway show and ended by introducing a succession of ghostly Salvjiia look-alikes on his catwalk.
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"Sixteen: Drummers Suite," due out later this month, is an ambitious work obliquely inspired by six of his jazz-drumming touchstones — its movements bear titles like "Elvin" and "Philly Joe" — for the improvising chamber orchestra he leads here.
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But the implication of the decision was that, if there were a case in which conditions on federal spending power were unconstitutional, it would involve an indirect objective only obliquely related to the central purpose of the spending.
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She credits her father with having instilled in her a fervent liberalism, which has prompted her to engage in feminist causes and in campaigns for Democratic candidates, but which is only rarely and obliquely expressed in her art.
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The right-wing contingent pushing the banking bill has referred obliquely to Turnbull's support for a private members bill to legalize same-sex marriage after a historic and overwhelming public vote last week in favor of the unions.
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Murillo's new exhibition, Social Altitude, which is currently on view at the Aspen Art Museum, showcases five recent series that obliquely speak to this question, using obfuscation and movement to examine the complex conditions of a globalized world.
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During his visit to The New York Times this week, Mr. Trump referred obliquely to a "big problem for the country" that President Obama had mentioned during their 90-minute meeting at the White House after the election.
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Analysts say both men view truculence and obstinacy as political virtues and as such could probably understand one another, though Trump once referred obliquely to some Mexican candidates as "not that good" in an apparent nod at Lopez Obrador.
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Yet the fact that the GIF apparently originated from The_Donald, and specifically from a member of The_Donald who's espoused a racist and violent ideology, prompted public debate over whether the president was promoting violence, however obliquely, with his tweet.
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There's a nagging sense that today's Christmas films lack the authenticity of the classics—rather than obliquely acknowledging the challenges of life, recent works only introduce hardship for the sake of wishing it away through recourse to sentimentality itself.
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SYDNEY, March 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Open organisers have responded to the shock decision by their counterparts at the French Open to move the tennis tournament to September with a statement obliquely criticising unilateral changes to the Grand Slam calendar.
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The employees decided to refer to the episode obliquely but focus on a more positive example — the company president Thomas J. Watson Jr.'s Policy Letter No. 4, which resisted pro-segregation policies in the South in the 1950s.
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The confession video does not mention prostitution, with Cheng only appearing to obliquely reference it with a comment that he was "too ashamed to meet my girlfriend and my family," but state media has gone hard on the allegation.
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The Rock's male co-stars in "Fast 8" are all pissed at him for obliquely calling some of them out as candy ass divas ... and they think his tirade is all about ego ... so say production sources on the set.
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The woozy, torpid sounds they transmit are based on audio samples of the many different frequencies that have defined concert pitch A over the centuries, from Bach's era through the 227s—thus obliquely referencing a huge swath of Western music.
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" She returns to the scene in her fiction obliquely and directly — sometimes it's just a mention of striped tights like those she was wearing when attacked; other times, a similar rape sets the plot in motion, as in "Baise-Moi.
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" And despite the challenges in measuring the impact, it also means an opportunity for G.E. to insert itself, however obliquely, into broader cultural conversations: "LifeAfter" will ultimately address such trendy topics as artificial intelligence and the possibility of a "digital afterlife.
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Kevin Systrom, co-founder and chief executive of Instagram, did not mention Snapchat by name in an interview about Instagram Stories, but obliquely referred to "competitors" and acknowledged that "other companies deserve all the credit" for popularizing disappearing photos and videos.
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It could be some injudicious comments from a player: most often, at this point, from Paul Pogba, who has obliquely referred to problems with his manager in public more than once, and has privately disclosed that he wishes to leave.
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To wade through reactions to the losses of McCain, Franklin and other public figures who have died this year is to wallow in anecdotes, information and statements of principle that are obliquely or clumsily attached to the sadness at hand.
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During those hearings, Mr. Brennan obliquely criticized the performance of American spy agencies in providing intelligence and analysis of the Arab revolutions that began in 2009, and said the C.I.A. needed to cede some of its paramilitary role to the Pentagon.
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Similarly, Wang Yi, state councilor and special representative of Chinese President Xi Jinping, noted that his government believes that all countries must act to limit greenhouse gases and even obliquely called out President Trump for pulling out of the Paris accord.
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But even though season two has existed in the aftermath of those events, they have only been referenced obliquely here and there until this episode, when Logan recruits Kendall to join him for a visit to the dead man's family.
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Human rights groups, academics, Western diplomats and political analysts have said that Pakistan's army and security services, often referred to here obliquely as "the Establishment," systematically targeted Mr. Khan's political rivals in the months before the election, helping him win.
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In larger currents of Japanese art history, perhaps Making the Perfect Donut also obliquely reflects the influence of the reportage painters of the 1950s (like Hiroshi Nakamura and Kikuji Yamashita), who regularly incorporated the issue of US bases and imperialism into their work.
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"Beauty is a Wound" is a sprawling work—seen through the eyes of Halimunda's gangsters, rebels, prostitutes and gravediggers—that obliquely covers the history of Indonesia from the late colonial period onwards, through the 31-year rule of Indonesia's second president, Suharto.
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One thing I found fascinating that it had in common with the excellent "The Humans" (obliquely) was a sense of the supernatural somehow hovering at the edges of and distorting the topical — appropriate to a moment in which life seems increasingly surreal.
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In the new season, they obliquely address the presidential election — the Guy despairs at the prospect of a Trump presidency — as well as issues of race, class and privilege and, as always, the evolving role of marijuana in the lives of everyday people.
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" Tingle echoed this sentiment, obliquely: "When i started writing tinglers i did not TROT as much as i do now," he said, "because it makes good days ahead to know that there are buds getting hard in a normal way to your books.
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Though she had appeared to obliquely reference the drama over the weekend — or at least her own self-esteem amid headlines about being bad-mouthed by a government official — Tiffany Trump was all positivity in a back-to-school Instagram photo on Tuesday.
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The Russos have obliquely said that Ant-Man and the Wasp will tie into the events of Infinity War but haven't said whether the characters themselves, who are not featured on the film's poster (or are they?), will appear in the movie.
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But "Night School," like Mr. Cohn's 2013 documentary, "Medora" (a moving portrait of a luckless Indiana high school basketball team, which he directed with Davy Rothbart), addresses larger social cracks only obliquely, and never in a way that disrupts the natural narrative flow.
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Kenney has obliquely nodded at separatist sentiments since coming into power last spring, though he used the months before the federal election to call on Canadians to vote Trudeau's party out of power rather than push for his province to go it alone.
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Sweet-voiced and deadpan, the Norwegian songwriter Jenny Hval led her group through eccentric more-or-less pop songs, including those from her 2016 album "Blood Bitch," that obliquely and sometimes directly addressed the interfaces of desire, commodification, language, technology and femininity.
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In this segment, the camera fleets from one portrait to another — in one she gazes obliquely sitting among flowers; in another she lays down wearing a white turtle neck as her hair frames her face; and in another, she gazes out a window.
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Comey references the Clinton elephant in the room Comey wasn't asked about it directly, but in his opening statement he obliquely referenced a chief complaint of Democrats -- that he spoke freely about an investigation into Hillary Clinton but not Trump's campaign during the election.
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He may also have been embellishing on what used to be called "partial-birth abortion," or intact dilation and extraction, but "partial-birth" abortions have been illegal in the United States since 2003, so even obliquely recalling it is a canard used for political gain.
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After all, he uses a lot of conventional materials and methods, even casting in bronze the obliquely, spookily face-like "Afterimage" (2015) — which, incidentally, might attune a gallery visitor to the pareidolic potential (imagining a face or figure in random shapes) of Gold's paintings.
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You can't open RedTube without seeing a woman being choked by a man—it's as ubiquitous as an abuser masquerading as a male feminist, which is why men like Eric Schneiderman can tweet obliquely about having done "role-play" without apparent fear of reprisal.
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And he seemed to obliquely reference the words of current Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who told an auditorium full of State Department employees Wednesday that there are times when they will need to separate values from policy -- stunning many current and former diplomats.
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Through the myopic view of a dash cam, Kiarostami manages to widen the scope to reveal what a politically charged Iran looked like post-9/11 but pre-2009 Green Wave, through the eyes of women both directly and obliquely impacted by a changing culture.
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" The lyrics not-too-obliquely addressed Baizley's recovery from his injuries and battle to stay above the waters of addiction: "When I called on my nursemaid, 'Come sit by my side' / But she cuts through my ribcage / And pushes the pills deep in my eyes.
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Roseanne Barr SAID she was swearing off Twitter, but that lasted a nanosecond before she pounded away with a flurry of tweets, saying her racist comment was Ambien-induced and then she obliquely claimed it wasn't racist because she thought Valerie Jarrett was a Jew.
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One reason for this, as became clear when Mr Trump swept Tea Party country, was that its supporters' hostility to public spending was often a proxy for other things—including antipathy to redistribution and to immigration, which are only obliquely related to the deficit.
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Lewis's experiences and connection to the college are referenced obliquely, in wall-mounted texts excerpted from testimony about her assault, as well as directly, with one of her own works, "Bust of James Peck Thomas" (1874), greeting the viewer as they enter the museum.
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And there are shows coming out that seem at least obliquely inspired by Trump's odiousness, like Ava DuVernay's dramatic mini-series about the Central Park Five, a group of wrongly imprisoned teenage boys demonized by Trump, which debuts at the end of the month.
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"You know the job you're signing up for," she said in an interview one recent morning at a diner near her home, referring obliquely to the fact that committee leaders typically have to toe the president's line when their party holds the White House.
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While President Barack Obama obliquely acknowledged in his eulogy for Shimon Peres, the former Israeli president and prime minister, that "Arab youth are taught to hate Israel from an early age," Mr. Trump gave Mr. Netanyahu a stage from which to make the accusation explicit.
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Putin, obliquely referring to diplomatic pressure from the United States and France to concentrate Moscow's firepower on Islamic State militants, said Russian military aid was going to help parts of the Syrian opposition in the fight against IS as well as to help Assad.
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The post-conceptual framework allows the viewer to navigate the pieces in the show as monads, operating independently of the exhibition as a whole and meeting each other only obliquely, reproducing the horizon of confusion and instability that pervades the very phenomena treated in the curatorial proposal.
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Trump has claimed that the person or people who gave information to the whistleblower are "close to a spy" and longingly noted that "in the old days ... we used to handle it a little differently than we do now" -- referring, not so obliquely, to executing disloyal spies.
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Though McGowan declined to talk to the Times about the incident in question, she has indirectly referred to it over the years, obliquely discussing it as a rape in 2016 and claiming that most of Hollywood had supported her rapist, whom she indirectly alleged to be Weinstein.
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Smith and Johnson appeared to obliquely address that in their Tuesday letters, arguing that both committees had jurisdiction over the issue -- Science because it has jurisdiction over government cybersecurity standards, and Homeland Security because it has authority over "the effectiveness of present national security methods" across government.
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I'm not overweight, and I'm male, so they may feel it's okay to tease me when they probably wouldn't do so with an overweight customer or a woman (as I've always been taught that it's the height of rudeness to comment even obliquely about a woman's weight).
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It was a high bar to clear, then, on Thursday evening here, when the same orchestra gave the premiere of Mr. Adams's "Become Desert," completing a trilogy he never set out to write: three nature-immersed — and so inevitably, in this day and age, obliquely political — pieces.
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Mr. Trump's remarks on Wednesday about libel law seemed, at times, to refer obliquely to the book, which debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list, and has provided fodder for dozens of news articles, opinion pieces and cable news segments.
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Malamud was right, of course: Hockey is just a game; to enjoy Ovechkin's prowess on the ice — he is not my favorite player, but the sheer force and exuberance of his game is something to behold — is to support, however obliquely, the continuation of a terrible regime.
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Mr. Taylor's London gallery is exhibiting seven large-scale works by the Shanghai abstract painter Ding Yi. Little-known in the West, Ding uses a visual language of grids and crosses to obliquely evoke the seismic psychological and physical changes that China has undergone in recent years.
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" Both explicitly and obliquely, Mr. Biden and his campaign criticized Mr. Sanders's record on gun control on Thursday, releasing a biting video of the Vermont senator saying in 2012, "I don't know that you hold a gun manufacturer responsible for what obviously a deranged person does.
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"Today, with social media, we know that more than ever they take us for idiots, with money to throw away," Mr. Orange said, referring to politicians and, obliquely, to the embezzlement charges hanging over Mr. Fillon and to accusations of financial malfeasance against Ms. Le Pen.
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Getting out of the car, I felt as if I'd arrived in the Anatolian countryside: the two main buildings were in the Ottoman style, with high windows and obliquely slanted roofs; women wore the stylish fitted head scarves popular among Turkey's middle class; everyone was speaking Turkish.
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The FBI may be investigating internal leaks Comey seemed to obliquely confirm Wednesday that the bureau is conducting an internal investigation into whether FBI officials inappropriately leaked information about the Clinton probe during the campaign to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R), an ally of Trump's.
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Sure, he'll criticize Trump obliquely or disagree with a decision here or there, but he's turned his post-White House time to being a sort of White House emissary on TV. Steve Bannon, like Manigault Newman, was fired by White House chief of staff John Kelly.
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That loss — mentioned only obliquely and without specifics — informs Tom and Joan's unusually close bond, as well as offering the opportunity for a slightly contrived scene in which Tom delivers a monologue at his dead daughter's gravesite, while his wife is having tests at the hospital.
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Some works are pointedly personal, like a quasi-anthropological spread of personal objects belonging to his family members, while others obliquely reference momentous geopolitical events, like a piece featuring the chandeliers that illuminated the 211 Paris Peace Accords, which brought the Vietnam War to an end.
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Despite not actually identifying the man, whom he later interviews and discusses obliquely after the fact, Reed provides a few details about him that could potentially make it possible to single out someone in a small town, or at least make them a target of suspicion and hostility.
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"There's a reason that Catholic iconography keeps popping up in LGBT art: It's become powerful through centuries of use, and it partakes, even if obliquely, of the rich Catholic theology of suffering," Dan Walden, a graduate student at the University of Michigan and a gay Catholic, told Vox.
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Smith and Johnson appeared to obliquely address the scolding in their Tuesday letters, arguing that both committees had jurisdiction over the issue — Science because it has jurisdiction over government cybersecurity standards, and Homeland Security because it has authority over "the effectiveness of present national security methods" across government.
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Prestini's operatic score, with a libretto by Royce Vavrek, did not encourage the "astronauts," as the MC called the audience, to sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight: Instead, it was a thundering opus that obliquely told the story of a woman losing her child and committing suicide.
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In advance of that event, his office has rolled out its latest video holding up Mr. Ryan as a man with a plan, though the details of that plan, obliquely intended to distract from the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, are very much a work in progress.
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With an ensemble of six vocalists and 18 instrumentalists, the 80-minute "Place" obliquely yet obsessively mulls gentrification; displacement; the powers and limitations of white male privilege; and the intersection of shifts in communities and families, including the birth of Mr. Hearne's children and the breakup of his marriage.
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The show turned 2 this month, and it's mind-boggling to consider how much has happened since its premiere: the Brexit vote, the election of Donald J. Trump (obliquely mentioned in the performance as "you know who"), the escalation of the culture wars to their current fever pitch.
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But many are incensed by what they felt was the gall of Stephens to take on climate change as his first column, and then to obliquely suggest that the data underlying climate science may be flawed, just like the data that predicted a Hillary Clinton win in November.
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According to the White House's account of Trump's July call with Zelensky, the Ukrainian president obliquely brought up military aide that the Trump administration had mysteriously put on hold just days earlier by referring to specific pieces of equipment he intended to buy once the money came through.
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" Because usually you'll find out about a breaking news event because someone will have made a joke referencing that event obliquely ... Somebody was joking, I forget who on Twitter, that's like, "When a meteor comes eventually, they'll just say, 'Oh, can't wait for that big rock to hit us all.
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Many Catholic Venezuelans were disappointed that the Vatican did not take the opportunity to rebuke Mr Maduro openly (or even obliquely) over the country's humanitarian crisis, or over the fact its most prominent opposition leader, Leopoldo López, is in prison on what human-rights organisations consider to be trumped-up charges.
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Fed officials have only obliquely embraced the rate-cut imperative, and by most indications Powell, like a traditionalist baseball skipper, isn't wholly comfortable yet in going to the bullpen at this stage, with the U.S. economy still holding up well and no proof that inflation is on a sustained downward path.
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While milk and honey contains several poems that, through coded words like "dishonor," obliquely refer to Kaur's cultural upbringing, that's about as explicit as it gets: The poems are vague enough to provide identifiable prompts for readers from a variety of different cultural environments, including — in many cases — white Western readers.
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Gradually, and very obliquely, we get some slight sense of Kircher's rambling interests — "I found and named the pathogen of the plague," he sings, "I designed hydraulic organs, horoscope machines, a reconstruction of the seating plan in Noah's Ark" — as well as his anxieties about dying and being proven right.
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But Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and senior aide, has defended him on Twitter — albeit obliquely, sharing a quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson about "enemies and spies" — and in interviews, telling the Associated Press that the impeachment investigation was an effort to oust her father outside of the ballot box.
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"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" pops up in Act II. Some of the numbers, which are mostly sung by cast members rather than lip-synced in a more traditional drag-show style, are used to advance the plot, while others seem to comment obliquely on the drag-queen scene in general.
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Cathy BernardNew York To the Editor: Re "Gun Culture of a Country Is Scrutinized After Attacks" (news article, March 16): This paper and other media outlets have referred directly or obliquely to a "gun culture" in New Zealand, implying it might be an impediment to changing the country's gun laws.
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After a trip to the Whitney, where Mr. Lang was most attracted to works that were only obliquely political, he took in something more heavy-handed: a performance of Marc Blitzstein's white-hot musical "The Cradle Will Rock," which makes its pro-union message forcefully clear, at Classic Stage Company.
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He uses the theme obliquely, such as in a scene in which Andrew's friend (or possibly uncle) tells him a joke about a dealer managing to flash dope in front of a cop who is trying to book him for it — and then dispenses advice on staying clean and upright.
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