| The ferry barges across the seafront for its dock with categoric straightness, welcome after the shambles and indirection of Portsmouth. |
| There's a layer of indirection there, and such layers always make things more flexible and more complex. |
| In what may be the ultimate feat of subtlety and indirection, they want to control the behemoth by appealing to its conscience. |
| He conveys these moral tastes to the reader less by means of argument than by ironic indirection or aesthetic intimation. |
| 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. |
