| 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. |
| Fantasy, by contrast, enables writers to confront the terrors of our time by way of parabolic indirection. |
| A sly and sophisticated writer, he could always get around the code of silence with indirection. |
| 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. |
| Rather, the commission is likely to pursue consumption taxation by stealth and indirection. |
