| As is with specific situational irony, greater reader perception is required since there is more indirectness in its presentation. |
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| The indirectness of memory, in contrast to the directness of retention, however, remains somewhat obscure. |
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| Older and newly arrived Vietnamese Americans often display indirectness and extreme politeness in dealing with others. |
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| The indirectness of the process invites a certain familiarity. |
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| While Pauline is attentive and listens carefully, her general approach and indirectness are not very convincing to Catherine. |
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| There are varying degrees of directness and indirectness concerning a teacher's intervention, yet the intended purpose of changing behavior is the same. |
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| 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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| You can utilize indirectness in specifying filter settings as well. |
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| What I like is the juxtaposition of the directness of the sculpture and the indirectness, the coldness, of 3-D animation and computer-generated art. |
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| Note also the indirectness of this construction relative to, for example, She's coming now. |
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| The problem, at least in part, is that the indirectness of Bernanke's language, the way an inflation target is implicit rather than explicit, feeds the confusion. |
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| The Japanese language acquires much of its beauty and strength from indirectness — or what English-speakers call vagueness, obscurity, or implied meaning. |
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| But the relationship is indirect. It is this indirectness which protects the artist and permits our dreams and visions to have currency and survive. |
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