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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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Sad yet again, if so, that journalists have to resort to indirection to shame their seemingly unshamable peers.
It remains for the narrator to incorporate into his own art of narration the advantages of artistic indirection with the certainty of effects.
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.
Women writers developed an artistry of indirection, dissembling, splitting, masking, and coding to get their anger out into the public sphere.
The ferry barges across the seafront for its dock with categoric straightness, welcome after the shambles and indirection of Portsmouth.

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