We achieve indirection by exploring that topic metaphorically, via a poem, a story, a piece of music, or a work of art that embodies it.
His interest in gray is metaphysical as well as visual, for he cultivates ambiguity, indirection, and impermanence.
If you're going to take on an author as indirect and allusive as James, then it might be good to try for indirection and allusiveness.
Fantasy, by contrast, enables writers to confront the terrors of our time by way of parabolic indirection.
There's a layer of indirection there, and such layers always make things more flexible and more complex.
Rather, the commission is likely to pursue consumption taxation by stealth and indirection.
Women writers developed an artistry of indirection, dissembling, splitting, masking, and coding to get their anger out into the public sphere.
He conveys these moral tastes to the reader less by means of argument than by ironic indirection or aesthetic intimation.
The ferry barges across the seafront for its dock with categoric straightness, welcome after the shambles and indirection of Portsmouth.
In all this indirection, finding direction out is, admittedly, a formidable enterprise.
Sad yet again, if so, that journalists have to resort to indirection to shame their seemingly unshamable peers.
Call me old-fashioned but back in the good-old-days this used to be done with a bit more indirection, subterfuge and cover, no?
It remains for the narrator to incorporate into his own art of narration the advantages of artistic indirection with the certainty of effects.
In what may be the ultimate feat of subtlety and indirection, they want to control the behemoth by appealing to its conscience.
A sly and sophisticated writer, he could always get around the code of silence with indirection.
We seem to want to talk to exactly the people in the past that most scribes in the past found unworthy to record, and so we seek their voices by indirection.
The indirection and suggestiveness of French Symbolist literature were introduced by Kim Ŏk, the principal translator.
It is slyly witty, full of knowing asides, false starts and playful indirection.
More impressive still, A. L. Kennedy has a keen feel for the jousting indirection of male banter.
Desire has its indirection, libido its whims, and Léon, who now lacks both stable home and partner, is their consenting victim.
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It seems to me that the Bloc amendments propose to achieve by indirection constitutional changes that belong elsewhere.
It is that kind of indirection that makes the implications of policy work so unpredictable.
We do not make constitutional changes of this sort by indirection without substantial discussion.
Adding a level of indirection between the timestamp signatures and the package files included in an update.
So we have exactly one level of indirection, just as in regular Linux distributions.
Born from a crisis of indirection, the last meeting in effect has given the moribund francophone caucus new life.
This puts an extra level of indirection between your internal servers and the internet greatly reducing your exposure to hackers.
First we encapsulate the variation in a class as this will add a level of indirection.
Since it's been suggested there were too many stickies at the top of the forum, I'm going to add a layer of indirection and replace them with this thread.
Metaphorical indirection gives way to explicit generalization.
Along with many exotic artifacts, Feng has imported the codes and language of courtly love, with its cult of indirection, of secrecy, and of long, slow, wooing.
But the personal attacks were there, veiled under euphonious indirection.
Every page on this wiki should be accessible by one level indirection from the sidebar, that is, it should be linked at least by one page directly accessible by the sidebar.
For endorsing diversity and open-mindedness, texts alternate languages, passing from Dutch to Gaul making an indirection by English and French, primitive and warlike odes which call upon the black strengths of reason.
At times during the trial, it was unclear how much unintelligibility was caused by mistranslation and how much by the deliberate indirection of witnesses.
In ancient Rome the institution of the will appeared at an early stage of cultural development, but there, too, it seems to have been preceded by a stage in which its effects could be achieved only by indirection.
Do not count on an answer, for indirection is very much her thing.
Somehow, the extra level of indirection here seems noisy to me.
It has the obliqueness and indirection of Strauss, and its thesis is the Straussian nihilism that philosophy and faith are unfounded choices.
On a theoretical level the proposed research has the aim to contribute to current discussions on theories of indirection as communicative strategies with reference to social asymmetries.

I could be robbed by indirection, but this was too open and barefaced to be endured.
It is possible, however, that it may teach a valuable lesson by indirection.
Colonel Dexter Baldwin had his faults, like other men, but they were not those of indirection.
In your case, I fear, confession is exploitation by indirection, profit-making by ruse, self-aggrandizement at the expense of God.
Human beings, all human beings, he had found, moved only by indirection.
There was not a fibre of guile or indirection in his moral nature.
Madame Guyon lays bare her heart, but she does it by indirection.
Besides she could not wait to ask her questions by any indirection.
The other was not dull, nor did he usually travel by indirection.

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