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What is an indirection?

What is an indirection? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A lack of direction; deviousness or aimlessness.
  2. (programming) Use of a variable or object through its address.
  3. An indirect action or process.
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Fantasy, by contrast, enables writers to confront the terrors of our time by way of parabolic indirection.
Rather, the commission is likely to pursue consumption taxation by stealth and indirection.
There's a layer of indirection there, and such layers always make things more flexible and more complex.
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.
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.

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