indirectness

But this kind of public indirectness is most unlike you.

To reach mind through the body is to lose by indirectness.

But the indirectness of such efforts has made it difficult for authorities to intervene.

Much like playing fugue, the fun comes in the indirectness.

Cindy said, her indirectness coming across in a tone of embarrassment.

One common way to achieve such indirectness is through the use of the form allegory.

"We don't often see what television actually is," he said with typical indirectness.

The other is your use of indirectness to communicate.

They found it difficult to support this position despite the indirectness of some of the claims.

Note also the indirectness of this construction relative to, for example, She's coming now "

Of course, indirectness can also be employed to put an edge on one's rudeness as well.

The peculiar power of the classical masters comes from their seeming indirectness.

In a country only recently discovering a modicum of free speech, such indirectness is not surprising.

Of course, Andrews's style has always been marked by polite indirectness.

He views his own work as an indirectness, an "insinuation":

The words are exquisitely Japanese in their indirectness.

The indirectness of her novels is deliberate but their meaning is clear to those who make an effort to understand them.

He wasn't Machiavelli's brightest pupil when it came to indirectness, either.

Mario decided to try indirectness, a vague question.

But in its more common uses it refers to an indirectness of relation between experience and its composition.

The indirectness of it struck him as cowardly.

It had to be the indirectness of the light, but his pupils seemed wider, darker, awesomely deeper.

"The indirectness of studies of mind and brain"

In the end the visual results are too familiarly antique to seem worth the either the hidden effort, indirectness or destruction.

The form of this indirectness is variably interpreted in different uses of the concept.