All 3 Uses of
oblique
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- at the oblique triple (piano!†
Chpt 11 *
- Shebronze, dealing from her oblique jar thick syrupy liquor for his lips, looked as it flowed (flower in his coat: who gave him?†
Chpt 11
- In the second storey (rere) of his (Bloom's) house the light of a paraffin oil lamp with oblique shade projected on a screen of roller blind supplied by Frank O'Hara, window blind, curtain pole and revolving shutter manufacturer, 16 Aungier street.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(oblique as in: an oblique reference) indirect; i.e., not straightforward