Sometimes the inspiration for Matisse's illustration is obvious, but in many his choice was somewhat oblique or idiosyncratic.

The aperture is somewhat oblique.

The plates move at a relative rate of over 0.4 inches (10 mm) per year at a somewhat oblique angle to the subduction zone.

The somewhat oblique segments will link downwards into the fault at the base of the cover sequence with a helicoidal geometry.

But whereas General Idea's work is somewhat oblique, Gran Fury means to be straightforward.

So Mr. Fitts, worried about homegrown businesses, is fighting the franchises, though from a somewhat oblique angle.

Greene has himself, in various circumstantial if somewhat oblique pieces about his early life, sketched in some darker shading.

"It is somewhat oblique and refers to conversations that have been held and understandings that have been reached."

The aperture of Punctum randolphi is wide and somewhat oblique.

Leaflets not toothed, and somewhat oblique at the base.