The justices had earlier rejected several cases that raised more oblique questions about the government response to the terror threat.
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As her marriage to a childhood friend sours, the movie poses oblique questions about the interplay of morality and intelligence in the development of Western culture.
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"Oh, nothing, " she would begin, and then allude to what she had been told with an oblique question : " Honey, how good are your friends?
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At a postgame press conference at Network Associates Coliseum, Lewis was able to give an oblique answer to a reporter's equally oblique question about " everything last year, " then two questions later was back to talking football.