| 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. |
| In what may be the ultimate feat of subtlety and indirection, they want to control the behemoth by appealing to its conscience. |
| In all this indirection, finding direction out is, admittedly, a formidable enterprise. |
| He conveys these moral tastes to the reader less by means of argument than by ironic indirection or aesthetic intimation. |
| The ferry barges across the seafront for its dock with categoric straightness, welcome after the shambles and indirection of Portsmouth. |
| Women writers developed an artistry of indirection, dissembling, splitting, masking, and coding to get their anger out into the public sphere. |
