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Definition of indirection in English: indirectionnoun ɪndɪˈrɛkʃ(ə)nɪndʌɪˈrɛkʃ(ə)nˌɪndəˈrɛkʃən mass nounIndirectness or lack of straightforwardness in action, speech, or progression. （行为）间接；（言语）拐弯抹角；（进程）迂回 his love of intrigue and sly indirection 他对耍阴谋诡计的热衷。 Example sentencesExamples - His method is understatement, indirection, irony.
- It remains for the narrator to incorporate into his own art of narration the advantages of artistic indirection with the certainty of effects.
- Sad yet again, if so, that journalists have to resort to indirection to shame their seemingly unshamable peers.
- In what may be the ultimate feat of subtlety and indirection, they want to control the behemoth by appealing to its conscience.
- Metaphorical indirection gives way to explicit generalization.
- In all this indirection, finding direction out is, admittedly, a formidable enterprise.
- There's a layer of indirection there, and such layers always make things more flexible and more complex.
- The ferry barges across the seafront for its dock with categoric straightness, welcome after the shambles and indirection of Portsmouth.
- Fantasy, by contrast, enables writers to confront the terrors of our time by way of parabolic indirection.
- Rather, the commission is likely to pursue consumption taxation by stealth and indirection.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Each in his way, Shelley and Musset pushed to extremes the art of indirection; another word would be suspense.
- His interest in gray is metaphysical as well as visual, for he cultivates ambiguity, indirection, and impermanence.
- But the personal attacks were there, veiled under euphonious indirection.
- But some media, which operate through indirection, are at least as important: music, the graphic arts.
- Even the simplest language of novels - in Hemingway, for example, or Camus - signifies by indirection a relation to literature and to the world.
- 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?
- 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.
OriginLate 16th century: from indirect, on the pattern of direction. Definition of indirection in US English: indirectionnounˌɪndəˈrɛkʃənˌindəˈrekSHən Indirectness or lack of straightforwardness in action, speech, or progression. （行为）间接；（言语）拐弯抹角；（进程）迂回 his love of intrigue and sly indirection 他对耍阴谋诡计的热衷。 Example sentencesExamples - Sad yet again, if so, that journalists have to resort to indirection to shame their seemingly unshamable peers.
- The ferry barges across the seafront for its dock with categoric straightness, welcome after the shambles and indirection of Portsmouth.
- In what may be the ultimate feat of subtlety and indirection, they want to control the behemoth by appealing to its conscience.
- Each in his way, Shelley and Musset pushed to extremes the art of indirection; another word would be suspense.
- But the personal attacks were there, veiled under euphonious indirection.
- In all this indirection, finding direction out is, admittedly, a formidable enterprise.
- But some media, which operate through indirection, are at least as important: music, the graphic arts.
- Even the simplest language of novels - in Hemingway, for example, or Camus - signifies by indirection a relation to literature and to the world.
- 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?
- His method is understatement, indirection, irony.
- 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.
- Metaphorical indirection gives way to explicit generalization.
- His interest in gray is metaphysical as well as visual, for he cultivates ambiguity, indirection, and impermanence.
- 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.
- Rather, the commission is likely to pursue consumption taxation by stealth and indirection.
- Fantasy, by contrast, enables writers to confront the terrors of our time by way of parabolic indirection.
- 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.
- 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.
- There's a layer of indirection there, and such layers always make things more flexible and more complex.
- It remains for the narrator to incorporate into his own art of narration the advantages of artistic indirection with the certainty of effects.
OriginLate 16th century: from indirect, on the pattern of direction. |