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Indirectness   Listen
noun
Indirectness  n.  
1.
The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.
2.
Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty.





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"Indirectness" Quotes from Famous Books



... but had sense enough, upon reflection, to discover that the truth would be too strong for him; so he replied, with true Caledonian indirectness of response, "I'll no say but it may be possible that I ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
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... must seem so to you," she admitted, reading my thoughts and answering them with skilful indirectness. "But what policeman would undertake a difficult and minute search for an article whose intrinsic value ...
— The Bronze Hand - 1897 • Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)
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... letter from the latter, there is assurance that he fully understands what a slow growth dramatic style must be. But Boker was not wholly wed to theatrical demands; he still approached the stage in the spirit of the poet who was torn between loyalty to poetic indirectness, and necessity for direct dialogue. On January 12, ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini • George Henry Boker
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... Oracles. To satisfy them, the Oracle should resemble a modern coach-office—where undoubtedly you would suspect fraud, if the question "How far to Derby?" were answered evasively, or if the grounds of choice between two roads were expressed enigmatically. But the to loxon, or mysterious indirectness of the Oracle, was calculated far more to support the imaginative grandeur of the unseen God, and was designed to do so, than to relieve the individual suitor in a perplexity seldom of any capital importance. In this way every oracular answer operated upon the local Grecian ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey
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... to fence. There was nothing apologetic in this man, no indirectness in his method of attack. Parry adroitly as she might, he beat down her guard. As the afternoon wore on there were silences, when Honora, by staring over the waters, tried to collect her thoughts. But the sea ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
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Words linked to "Indirectness" :   directness, obliqueness, characteristic, allusiveness


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