For some viewers the political suggestions of Ms. Burki's work, however oblique, are too obvious, a bad thing.

I'd just make an oblique suggestion about my concerns, just enough to get my friend to get the police department to look for explosives at Royal's house.

Some parties send cease-and-desist letters that make "an oblique suggestion of possible infringement" to lower the risk of the recipient filing a declaratory-judgment lawsuit.

As was their habit, they bit their tongues and decided to wait out what they hoped would be a phase, and made oblique suggestions about the necessity of having a paying job.

He would have been a lot more surprised at the oblique suggestion that he heat the situation up, if he hadn't already gotten the same "hints" from another of Jennie's relatives.

It might have been read as an oblique suggestion that she would let him have her second daughter once the Reizei question had been settled.

Dopo is an oblique suggestion of stratospheric rock, an alien whisper, an Indian mantra, a bad rehearsed prayer, children playing in the garden, green tea and chocolate cookies at midnight.

There was an oblique suggestion, for example, in the 2001 embassy bombings trial in Manhattan that Mr. al Nalfi had turned against Mr. bin Laden.

The place we should be looking is for centralised government funding, rather than making oblique suggestions that universities are over-charging for their courses.

(Morel fanciers will resent this oblique suggestion that the taste of their favorite fungi can be likened to that of another species.)