How To Use Indirection In A Sentence
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he tried to find out by indirection
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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.
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His method is understatement, indirection, irony.
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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
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He conveys these moral tastes to the reader less by means of argument than by ironic indirection or aesthetic intimation.
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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.
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Each in his way, Shelley and Musset pushed to extremes the art of indirection; another word would be suspense.
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Metaphorical indirection gives way to explicit generalization.
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All the point detectors have indirection; sensitive part must be at the centre - line of the vessel.
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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
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There's a layer of indirection there, and such layers always make things more flexible and more complex.
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Even the simplest language of novels - in Hemingway, for example, or Camus - signifies by indirection a relation to literature and to the world.
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But some media, which operate through indirection, are at least as important: music, the graphic arts.
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It remains for the narrator to incorporate into his own art of narration the advantages of artistic indirection with the certainty of effects.
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In all this indirection, finding direction out is, admittedly, a formidable enterprise.
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Fantasy, by contrast, enables writers to confront the terrors of our time by way of parabolic indirection.
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Since it's been suggested there were too many stickies at the top of the forum, I'm going to add a layer of indirection and replace them with this thread.
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Sad yet again, if so, that journalists have to resort to indirection to shame their seemingly unshamable peers.
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A sly and sophisticated writer, he could always get around the code of silence with indirection.
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Women writers developed an artistry of indirection, dissembling, splitting, masking, and coding to get their anger out into the public sphere.
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The fable of Dumpling, in the true spirit of _lanx satura_, allows Carey to attack by indirection a complete spectrum of traditional eighteenth-century targets.
A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727)
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The ferry barges across the seafront for its dock with categoric straightness, welcome after the shambles and indirection of Portsmouth.
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The painting reconfigures the motifs and, true to mondaine ideals, pictures Pompadour through artful indirection and allusion as artist and artwork.
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And his kind of ornateness and indirection told me that he really was still uncomfortable about it.
The Very Best Men—Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA
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Install regulator in the line with the arrow on the body pointing indirection of flow.
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Rather, the commission is likely to pursue consumption taxation by stealth and indirection.
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Install regulator in the line with the arrow on the body pointing indirection of flow.
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This paper describes the Indirection of log facies analysis and the log an - alysis for facies indices.
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Rather, the commission is likely to pursue consumption taxation by stealth and indirection.
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Metaphorical indirection gives way to explicit generalization.
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Along with many exotic artifacts, Feng has imported the codes and language of courtly love, with its cult of indirection, of secrecy, and of long, slow, wooing.
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The ferry barges across the seafront for its dock with categoric straightness, welcome after the shambles and indirection of Portsmouth.
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In contrast, the critics found it a thought provoking work of art: "A masterpiece of indirection and pure visceral thrills, David Cronenberg's latest mindblower is the feel-good, feel-bad movie of the year.
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and "A History of Violence"
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he could see through the indirections of diplomats
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His interest in gray is metaphysical as well as visual, for he cultivates ambiguity, indirection, and impermanence.
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According to sense-datum theorists, however, we are rarely, if ever, aware of this indirection in ordinary (veridical) exteroception.
Pain
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Install regulator in the line with the arrow on the body pointing indirection of flow.
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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.
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If you're going to take on an author as indirect and allusive as James, then it might be good to try for indirection and allusiveness.
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We might even suppose them functionally identical, treating the process of indirection as a conscious or unconscious strategy for avoiding face-threatening behaviour, seeing every revelation as also an elicitation, deliberate or not, carried out in the expectation of a response, even if it is only sympathetic agreement.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (2)
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The indirection, which is based on "advanced compilation techniques (like abstract bytecode)" results in one master class and several anonymous, JIT enabled support classes.
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The dereference operator is also known as the indirection operator.
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Given that direct resistance to religious court authority is itself illegal and non-appearance for a summons can be met with a police-enforced arrest warrant, indirection is a means of effective resistance.
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In what may be the ultimate feat of subtlety and indirection, they want to control the behemoth by appealing to its conscience.
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But the personal attacks were there, veiled under euphonious indirection.
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Call me old-fashioned but back in the good-old-days this used to be done with a bit more indirection, subterfuge and cover, no?