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indirectness

NOUN
  1. having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal

How To Use indirectness In A Sentence

  • If they are positive, it is very unlikely that they are large, considering the indirectness of this method of subsidizing education. Education Loans, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Under the system of institutional government, a political party's obtaining and holding the state power has the feature of legality, indirectness and temporariness .
  • The indirectness of memory, in contrast to the directness of retention, however, remains somewhat obscure.
  • Quaker State-Slick 50, Inc., 165 F.3d 221 (3d Cir.1998) (opinion by then-Judge Alito), which assesses five factors: "(1) the nature of the plaintiff's alleged injury, (2) the directness or indirectness of the asserted injury, (3) the proximity or remoteness of the party to the alleged injurious conduct, (4) the speculativeness of the damages claim, and (5) the risk of duplicative damages or complexity in apportioning damages. McDonald's is lovin' it: Burger King franchisee lacks Lanham Act standing
  • Urdu is perhaps the politest of written tongues and lends itself most readily to indirectness; but since he did not expect to read a catalogue of exact facts, he was not disappointed. In The Time Of Light
  • They are more elaborate because people practice indirectness.
  • King went to the cave entrance, to look the new man over; but because he was in Khinjan, and Khinjan in the "Hills," where indirectness is the key to information, he stood for a while at gaze, listening to the thunder of tumbling water and looking at the cliff-edge six feet away that was laid like a knife in the ascending mist. In The Time Of Light
  • The indirectness of metaphor allows clients to work out struggles at their own pace. Judith D. Schwartz: Therapy and the Writer
  • The indirectness of the process invites a certain familiarity.
  • With a cultural group in which indirectness is more valued, family members should not be pushed to make demands of others without trying gentle appeals and negotiation first.
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