He could smoke a cigar, make oblique remarks, admire her silhouette, and think about her proposition all at the same time.

But Julia parried her oblique remarks easily enough, talking about anything which came into her head and refusing to rise to any of her patient's barbed remarks.

Yesterday the NYT charted its own course and ignored Jiang's oblique remark at Harvard about "mistakes" his government has made.

In the last six months she'd learned more about his family from a few oblique remarks than she'd learned in all the years he'd been her assistant.

The Hoshan had made several oblique remarks before but had always backed down when pressed for further information.

The belief grew that the original patination had been black, possibly based on some rather oblique remarks in Pliny's Natural History on treating bronzes with bitumen.

From oblique remarks I gathered that she wanted to rejoin the main force before disaster struck it.

In oblique remarks last week, Mr. Dole backed off his opposition to the ban.

Three days after the explosion, President Vladimir V. Putin had made no further comment after oblique remarks on Friday.

They made oblique remarks (and some not so oblique) about "a terrible waste of talent."