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Indirection   Listen
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Indirection  n.  Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out."





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"Indirection" Quotes from Famous Books



... Charlton's letter, what did Isa do? What could she do? A woman may not move in such a case. Her whole future happiness may drift to wreck by somebody's mistake, and she may not reach a hand to arrest it. What she does must be done by indirection and under disguise. It is a way society has of ...
— The Mystery of Metropolisville • Edward Eggleston
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... her unusual indirection. She was immensely grown up; there were new manifestations of her otherwiseness. He noted little sophisticated tricks of manner that reminded him ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson
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... of that time who were supposed hardly to know their own hearts indulged the habit of politic indirection quite as much as young people in the same condition indulge it in this time; so when Ben-Hur inquired for the good Balthasar, and with grave courtesy desired to know if he would be pleased to see him, he really addressed the daughter a notice of his arrival. ...
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace
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Words linked to "Indirection" :   deceit, deception, dissimulation, procedure


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