indirection

How To Use indirection In A Sentence

• he tried to find out by indirection
• We seem to want to talk to exactly the people in the past that most scribes in the past found unworthy to record, and so we seek their voices by indirection.
• His method is understatement, indirection, irony.
• The portrayal of Bob and his boat could perhaps be said to reach inward -- although this is done through concentration and indirection, not through the tedium of the "free indirect" method -- as well as to expand outward and around Bob in concentric circles of thinly-layered exposition, but it could hardly be said to ever really push forward into a plotted narrative. Experimental Fiction
• He conveys these moral tastes to the reader less by means of argument than by ironic indirection or aesthetic intimation.
• Most provisions for dynamic tunability (such as setting a debug mode) can seriously impact time efficiency by adding levels of indirection and increasing numbers of branches.
• Each in his way, Shelley and Musset pushed to extremes the art of indirection; another word would be suspense.
• Metaphorical indirection gives way to explicit generalization.
• All the point detectors have indirection; sensitive part must be at the centre - line of the vessel.
• In fact, because of a psychological predisposition, he was bound to arrive at the functionally desirable result, yet because he had to “attitudinize to himself,” he “wast[ed] time, proceed[ed] unnecessarily by indirection, and burn[t] up his energies needlessly.” Pound at Large and at Bay