Adjective : an indirect course in sailing. ,an indirect advantage. ,His methods are indirect but not dishonest. ,He is known as a shady, indirect fellow. ,indirect evidence. ,an indirect quote. From Dictionary.com.
Their e-mails were 'tortured haikus of indirectness', so he told me. From Wordnik.com. [Relationships Of Mutual Mistrust] Reference
Whipple: Not necessarily indirectness, as much as not being closed, I think. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
The expats in town favor indirectness -- "I know you from somewhere, don't I?". From Wordnik.com. [Ripped From the Headlines] Reference
While the expats in town favor indirectness -- "I know you from somewhere, don't I?". From Wordnik.com. [Ripped From the Headlines] Reference
The indirectness of metaphor allows clients to work out struggles at their own pace. From Wordnik.com. [Judith D. Schwartz: Therapy and the Writer] Reference
Euphemisms rather use understatement … indirectness … the language of diplomacy. From Wordnik.com. [Euphemisms are often misleading.] Reference
There is no miserable waste of words, -- no indirectness of talk; what he thinks, he prints. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
The mirrors allow for indirectness, a device to let her catch him looking at her reflection. From Wordnik.com. [justinker Diary Entry] Reference
But one result is the loss of indirectness in government-representation, separation of powers. From Wordnik.com. ['Rhetorical Presidency'] Reference
‘If you adore her, I suppose you must have her!’ replied his mother with dry indirectness. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Little Ironies] Reference
I've written about the indirectness, the passive-aggressiveness that I find so maddening here. From Wordnik.com. [two observations, part one: canadians are still so nice] Reference
The tilting of the head a little to one side suggests a habit of indirectness and a tendency to. From Wordnik.com. [Certain Success] Reference
China's got its route on Taiwan full of indirectness and Russia's got its centuries-old approach. From Wordnik.com. [Georgia - Taiwan] Reference
But I was not convinced that the love story in the novel required Proustian indirectness and deferral. From Wordnik.com. [The decade in review] Reference
He questions him about himself, with such directness or indirectness as instinct and experience dictate. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference
Then the woman, with a woman's curious subtlety and indirectness, reached a somewhat singular conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
Operating under the assumption that this is satire, I think it is absolutely sublime in its indirectness. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Stark: Satire? Sincere? Brilliant!!!] Reference
It was with a sense of wonder that I realized that such indirectness might be meant to spare my feelings. From Wordnik.com. [Orphans of Chaos] Reference
He insinuates truth with a friendly indirectness, and banters us out of our folly with a foreign instance. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
It is in part this indirectness that suggests a parallel to Lombardi's indeterminate fields of "influence.". From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: December 7, 2003 - December 13, 2003 Archives] Reference
There is an awful lot of hand shaking and hugging and what not that goes on and also, a lot of indirectness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2001] Reference
Kellen blushed, and assented, wondering if he'd ever really get the hang of the indirectness of Elven manners. From Wordnik.com. [Tran Siberian] Reference
I have more trouble justifying the practice in music, because song lyrics, much more than dialogue, thrive on indirectness. From Wordnik.com. [Curses] Reference
But I see that over time, I may have started to focus on the downside, the indirectness, more than the upside, the politeness. From Wordnik.com. [two observations, part one: canadians are still so nice] Reference
If they are positive, it is very unlikely that they are large, considering the indirectness of this method of subsidizing education. From Wordnik.com. [Education Loans, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
This speech, in its indirectness, so injured Miss Louisa that she hated her mother deep, deep in her heart, and almost hated herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
The aristocracy which could survive such conditions had to do so by indirectness and courtier-like flattery, by blandishment and deceit. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
Miriam benignly gazed -- it was the perfection of indirectness. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Muse] Reference
However, there still seems to be a strange indirectness about the route to animal value. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog] Reference
Saunders failed to see the call for such slow indirectness of response to an ordinary request. From Wordnik.com. [The Desired Woman] Reference
The reader may even be annoyed and baffled by my indirectness and unwillingness to be specific. From Wordnik.com. [The Untroubled Mind] Reference
She was not looking her best and her mood was one of artificial indirectness that offended him. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
There was an indirectness in her gaze, as well as in her reply, that troubled me, but I said amiably. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Children] Reference
I presume she was fascinated by the indirectness of your speech, the touches of humor and your very stern manner. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Franklin K. Lane] Reference
The indirectness of speech had been a shelter to her, permitting her to hint at more than she dared clothe in words. From Wordnik.com. [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference
Bismarck did, that it was more serviceable to him than lying, for the crafty world usually banks upon insincerity and indirectness. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
Hence, by that power of indirectness to accomplish in an hour what strenuous aiming will not effect in a life-time, she fascinated the. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
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