| 单词 | indirection |
| 例句 | Back in Harlem, he had often liked to get at something through this kind of indirection. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was full of the musical equivalents of parentheses, commas, subordinate clauses and indirection: rising and falling, breathing in and out, before coming to the resolution of the final period. Joshua Bell Plays Mostly Mozart 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z This is a more straightforward memorial tribute to Wolf, measured, even stately, without the elaborate, quick-cut indirections of the earlier piece. Art Review: Hito Steyerl Has New York Solo Debut at e-flux 2012-12-20T22:07:09Z If the art addresses political issues with subtlety and indirection, the same can’t be said of the artist. 2010-02-06T03:52:00Z There is much open space in these performances, much insight and mystery, a settling into a zone between direction and indirection. Review: Wayne Shorter Goes Solo With the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Camouflage and cover are the novel's preoccupations; enigma, disguise and indirection its styles of telling. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z In that collection and the books that followed, her forms relaxed, her voice gained a new, often furious register, and her societal concerns became specific, rather than blurred by the indirections of the period style. An Appraisal: The Adrienne Rich Beyond the Anger 2012-03-30T17:31:51Z Actually, “story” may be too strong a word, though events do move, with dreamy indirection, toward a crisis of sorts. Movie Review: ‘Prince Avalanche’ Features Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch 2013-08-08T18:12:49Z And you just wish that Mr. Fierstein trusted more in his actors to deliver that message by indirection and in his audiences to infer it. Theater Review: ‘Casa Valentina,’ a New Play by Harvey Fierstein 2014-04-24T02:00:16Z In the second, there was transformation, but it happened by coincidence and indirection, through the choices of businessmen “whose only law was to buy in the cheapest market and sell without restriction in the dearest.” Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Even here, though, Ms. DeLappe shows her sophisticated grasp of exposition by indirection and of the telling, seemingly insignificant detail that wrings the heart. Review: ‘The Wolves’: A Pack of Female Warriors, Each Determined to Score 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Yet where that autobiography was rich in detail, this collection tells it “slant,” to borrow from Emily Dickinson — using indirection and layered imagery to address difficult moments. The three best poetry books for June 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z The film itself is perhaps a bit too cautious, preferring diffidence and indirection to overt emotion. | 'Cairo Time': Patricia Clarkson in Egypt in Ruba Nadda?s Script 2010-08-05T22:15:00Z The story unfolds over months, and the life-altering events that occur are revealed slowly and by indirection, sometimes as if they were conversational afterthoughts. Review: 3 Generations Aching to Connect ‘On the Shore of the Wide World’ 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z This edge of mystery, of indirection, motivates all three of the works here like an animating force. Patrick Modiano's 'Suspended Sentences': Mysteries of existential sort 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z What she ended up with is a mother-daughter story that, like a Brecht play or a Fassbinder melodrama, achieves its emotional force through indirection and distance. Lip-Syncing the Realities of a Tragic Life 2011-04-22T23:43:02Z A similar charge of indirection, or indeterminacy — I’d call it healthy disorder — could probably be leveled at “Trigger.” When to Comes to Gender, Let Confusion Reign 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z This work’s gentle indirection, given life by a perfectly melded ensemble at the Public Theater, made it the most affecting play to date to deal with the events of Sept. Traditional Theater, Sometimes With Stealth Bombs 2011-12-17T01:47:24Z But Mr. Nyuade’s satirical approach, mingling hilarity and horror, suits the show’s preference for polemical indirection, just as his semiabstract style, which foregrounds color and texture, sustains a prevailing focus on traditional studio formal skills. New Museum Triennial Looks Great, but Plays It Safe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Harrison doesn’t work with such blunt blocks of exposition, but by indirection. Review: In ‘Marjorie Prime,’ Lois Smith Connects With the Past 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z The charismatic Davis taught by indirection, seldom giving his sidemen instructions, except to keep the music interesting and fresh. Book review: Herbie Hancock’s ‘Possibilities’ Genuinely odd in its mixture of bluntness and indirection, screenwriter Angus MacLachlan's study in biblical temptation is saved from its own heavy-handedness by a fine quartet of actors. 'Stone': A vexing web of encounters between a fine quartet of actors 2010-10-14T20:39:00Z Machine Gun Kelly’s most direct reference to his whiteness is actually a neat indirection. White Rappers Paying Homage to the Past 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z He specializes in a linguistically rich indirection that can occasionally verge on opacity. ‘Sing Street’ Review: New Wave Music as Sweet Deliverance 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Ms. Manville — a paradigm of steely indirection in her brilliant Oscar-nominated performance in last year’s “Phantom Thread” — is in fully aggressive attack mode as Mary, and she sets the pace for the others. Review: Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville Lead a Hard-Run ‘Long Day’s Journey’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Ms. Nicks, 62, who performed first at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night, is the goddess of indirection. Music Review: Two Rockers, Old Hits And Reasons to Believe 2011-04-08T19:43:21Z Again and again, following the trail suggested by her objects, finding directions out by indirections, Byrne opens out Austen's story with a novelist's persistent probing of the evidence. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z “Results” is something of a paradox: a straightforward movie that reveals itself by stealth and indirection. Review: ‘Results’ Tracks Exertions in Matters of the Cardio 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z It is another measure of how resistant 9/11 remains to artistic treatment that several of the more memorable artworks that captured the city’s sense of loss did so by indirection. The 9/11 Decade: Outdone by Reality 2011-09-01T16:55:45Z It’s full of disquiet and indirection, but self-possessed. Ben Ratliff’s Favorites of 2013 2013-12-13T18:30:06Z Though Ms. Galchen favors misdirection and indirection, her writing is skillful, imaginative, often funny. Books of The Times: ‘American Innovations’ by Rivka Galchen 2014-05-07T20:15:28Z What it’s saying may not be what it’s trying to say, but its indirections and misdirections are nonetheless fascinatingly symptomatic. The Fascinating Failures of “The Happytime Murders” 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z And while the narrative moves mostly in a straight line, it also doubles back and encounters obstacles, proceeding into the past by means of association, indirection and the overcoming of repressed knowledge. ‘Flee’ Review: From Kabul to Copenhagen 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z As to the specific meaning of those flags, the artists chose indirection. German Artists Say They Put White Flags on Brooklyn Bridge 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z I was perhaps guilty of excessive indirection early on, so much so that I briefly acquired the nickname of Gentle Ben in the industry. Ben Brantley on Shutting the Stage Door Behind Him 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Even some of the shortest pieces, between two and four minutes long, suffer from conceptual overload and indirection. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-08-29T21:53:00Z The indirection is not purposeless; Edelman is building the service roads to his main argument. Review: A Jew and 16 ‘Nerf Nazis’ Meet Cute in ‘Just for Us’ 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z At first, the comedy, cleverly constructed through sly directorial indirections, prevails: Cassius’s job interview, for instance, involves a deadpan, over-the-top display of his qualifications, which, we soon find out, is full of falsehoods. “Sorry to Bother You,” Reviewed: A Wild Workplace Comedy Energized by Righteous Anger 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z With artful indirection, Dr. Keilson delineated the psychology of dread, evasion, hatred and self-deception, and the complex relations between Jews and non-Jews in 1930s Germany. Hans Keilson, Novelist of Life in Nazi-Run Europe, Dies at 101 2011-06-02T21:23:44Z Mr. Edwards’s first feature was the clever, low-budget “Monsters,” and even with a lot of money at his disposal, he often prefers subtlety and indirection to obvious noise and spectacle. Godzilla, Grandaddy of Movie Monsters, Stomps Back 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Everywhere in her fiction there is the same sense of deflection and indirection. Moomins’ magic maker 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z It turned out that the famously elusive artist, with his signature habit of strategic indirection, had submitted it as a proposal for a site-specific sculpture. From David Hammons, a Tribute to Pier 52 and Lastingness 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z “The same hallmarks we listen for in Rorem’s music will be found in his essays a well: indirection, instinctive grace, intellectual aplomb, a lyrical line.” Ned Rorem, prize-winning composer and writer, dies at 99 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z The effect of these lines, which reach back into the past while projecting far into the future, is that of a rebus, with the stunning phrase “the final whereabouts” offering one more breath of indirection. Review: How a Guatemalan kidnapping inspired Eduardo Halfon's autofictional 'Cancion' 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z There are two levels of indirection from the core business of Robinhood. How Robinhood’s Aparna Chennapragada is building the future of investing 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z They must construct themselves through word and voice, through the indirection of figurative language and the contrivances of patterned rhythms and rhymes. The Artists Dismantling the Barriers Between Rap and Poetry 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Each one is just a few pages, written in an oblique, poetic style that arrives at its conclusion through indirection. Review: New story collection by Danish writer Dorthe Nors 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z But Morrison criticized by indirection; she was political because of what she didn’t say. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The obfuscation and indirection continued Wednesday when Democrats tried to pin Barr down on his prevarication. Opinion | William Barr has shamelessly corrupted the debate over the Mueller report 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Aside from theological differences, it’s interesting to note that from a literary perspective, the revised stories in the Koran are told with less indirection than they are in the Bible. Review | Comparing the Bible’s mercurial God with the Koran’s grandfatherly Allah 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Not altogether a beast, in spite of his grotesque passion, Humbert determines to dose the child with sleeping pills and achieve his transport by indirection, out of a scrupulous regard for her purity. Reading “Lolita” in 1958 1958-11-01T05:00:00Z While normal political language functions through implication and indirection, Mr. Trump luxuriates in saying the quiet part loud. Opinion | Chris Hayes: What ‘Law and Order’ Means to Trump 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z “My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness comes to me, which is by fits and starts and by indirection. I don’t think poetry arranged in neat patterns would reflect that situation.” John Ashbery, exalted poet of boundless verve, dies at 90 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z “My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness comes to me, which is by fits and starts and by indirection. I don't think poetry arranged in neat patterns would reflect that situation.” John Ashbery, regarded as one of the world's greatest poets, dies at age 90 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z But Obama, confident in Clinton’s electoral prospects, instead chose stealth and indirection. Obama stayed quiet on Russian interference. History will judge him for it | Walter Shapiro 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z In a new Brookings paper, he demonstrates that government expands by indirection, using three kinds of “administrative proxies” — state and local government, for-profit businesses, and nonprofit organizations. Opinion | Big government sneakily gets bigger 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Whatever his subject may be with any given project — the nature of political revolt, or the challenge of historical remembrance — Loznitsa’s approach is invariably one of sly indirection and implicit moral inquiry. The films of Ukraine's Sergei Loznitsa invite a closer look at history 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Narrative indirection, the time-honored choice, often governs “Lincoln in the Bardo,” as when Saunders clips dozens of different and sometimes contradictory sources to handle Lincoln’s physical description: George Saunders Gets in Lincoln’s Head 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z “Sometimes overtly, sometimes through code and indirection, he spoke to many Americans’ discontent with economic stagnation and an increasingly multicultural society in a way that breached basic principles of dignity and equality. Emergence of populist leaders threatens democracy, says Human Rights Watch 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z But “Untitled America” is not as affecting as “Pavement,” because it lacks the earlier piece’s modesty and indirection. Kyle Abraham’s Political Choreography 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z There’s a lot of indirection and redundancy and countervailing force built into a big country. A Letter to a European Friend in a Time of Trump 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Moving without being excessive, "Loving" makes some of its points by indirection, like a shot of the Lovings watching Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. The interracial-romance turmoil at the center of 'Loving' is brought to light with a clear-eyed humanity 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Wong often proceeds by indirection, and the obvious contrast of this first meeting — between Big Labor’s encumbrances and Roosevelt’s dexterity — made, in retrospect, a deliberate point. Could Hillary Clinton Become the Champion of the 99 Percent? 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z And the press conference that Kerry held, alongside the Jordanian foreign minister, at an airport in Amman, was a neatly choreographed jig of indirection. John Kerry’s Middle East Mission 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z "The Assassin" takes his penchant for narrative indirection to new heights, especially in the second half when romantic entanglements and political alliances become increasingly difficult to parse. Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 'The Assassin' gives martial arts an art-house punch 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z At times during the trial, it was unclear how much unintelligibility was caused by mistranslation and how much by the deliberate indirection of witnesses. A Chinatown Bank Accused of Fraud 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z In our Barbican-directed oratorio a great deal of indirection and obliquity was welcome. A Point of View: What's the secret of writing great song lyrics? - BBC News 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z It speaks directly only to the sort of people who were enfranchised in 1787; the rest of us are left to make arguments by amendment and, failing that, by indirection. Sex and the Supreme Court 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Unlike most past first ladies, Mrs. Clinton didn't—and doesn't—operate by indirection. Hillary Clinton, First Lady: Newsweek's 1993 Cover Story 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z While those criticisms were delivered with indirection, as the ayatollah’s pronouncements always are, his message was clear. Shiite Militias in Iraq Back Off Boycott Over U.S. Strikes on ISIS 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z As in that book, Faye’s withdrawal and indirection seem to indicate melancholy, but she also has a subtly satirical relationship to the world and to the people in it. Embarrassed by Fiction | The New Yorker 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Earlier, less conventionally, in a passage of subtle indirection, the narrator first realized what was afoot. A Risky Novel of Seduction and Betrayal 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z But, given the complexity of the situation, subtlety and indirection are more promising tools than brute force. Obama keeps his options open on dealing with Islamic State The New York Stock Exchange, less than a mile from Katsuyama’s desk, appeared to be the stock market closest to him — but Ryan’s maps showed the incredible indirection of fiber-optic cable in Manhattan. An Adaptation From ‘Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt,’ by Michael Lewis 2014-03-31T09:00:22Z Iranians are masters of what has been termed “Oriental indirection” — which amounts to not quite saying what you mean, but getting your point across in a range of subtle ways. Iran's Foreign Minister Turns to YouTube 2013-11-19T19:05:22Z Usually, the government is divided and its signals to a foreigner mixed, or at least wreathed in what’s been dubbed in the past as “Oriental indirection.” Behind Iran's Charm Offensive 2013-09-20T19:35:27Z Such indirection is common in violent and repressive societies, but after more than 30 years of war, the Afghan penchant for elegant and oblique expression is particularly well honed. Opinion: How to Read Afghanistan 2013-08-10T18:15:10Z Although apparently free agents are we in reality only by infinitely subtle indirections making the responses, forming the habits, establishing the characters which result merely from the blind impulsions of an inherent constitution? Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z He was right, for sleepless nights swept around and the pulsing indirection of sex carried me to her for yet another rendezvous. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z The seal of sacramental confession could not be openly and habitually violated, but the result was reached by indirection. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Certainly this was true of this particular old salt, and it was necessary to approach him by indirection. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z If you go as far as this with me, you shall avoid, who knows, what indirection, and that not altogether without entertainment. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z That policy of indirection and sham has prompted the waste of too many millions of dollars of the people's money in this country. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z I could see that he was accustomed to win in the Shakespearian way—"by indirections find directions out." My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z His unprejudiced mind wondered at the conduct of the "Liberty men" that deprecating the annexation of Texas, deliberately promoted its success by indirection. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z Her wonderful dusky eyes, as vague and innocent as a child's, swept Caroline's face before they wandered, with their look of indirection and uncertainty, to her mother-in-law, who was knitting by the window. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z If Arthur learned much from him, it was by indirection; knowledge came to him unconsciously, as an atmosphere to be breathed, rather than as a lesson to be mastered. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Colonel Dexter Baldwin had his faults, like other men, but they were not those of indirection. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z Ms. Bartz is trying to turnaround Yahoo after several years of indirection and missteps by her predecessors. Bits: Yahoo Chief Executive Faces Unhappy Shareholders 2011-06-23T20:32:02Z With so much accomplished in the past by indirection, there can be no doubt but that important advances in psychotherapeutics must result from the extension of its deliberate use. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z There was no further use for indirection or concealment. Erskine Dale?Pioneer 2011-06-13T02:00:32.327Z In some documents the indirection is ignored and the text is translated directly. Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 2011-06-13T02:00:22.167Z "Let us put all these indirections aside and be for the moment merely a man and a woman, as God made us, Verda," he said soberly. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z This is true, as to the company and the information by Dr. McLoughlin, but false, by indirection, in this, that they knew the island for years had been claimed by him as his property. Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon 2011-05-20T02:00:38.647Z They who barter their children for a string of beads, or a talent of gold, are no more pagan than they who, by accumulated indirections, lead them to barter themselves. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z He had never admitted, save by indirection, that he had been to the Cayces'. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z Do not refuse her request by indirection; let the issue be fairly and openly made. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Yea, even against the decree of the Fifteenth Amendment have they defeated democracy by indirection and duplicity. Papers of the American Negro Academy. (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 18-19.) 2011-02-23T03:00:31.787Z This spirit, which creates for itself an atmosphere hard to describe, compounded as it is of universal knowingness, ironic indirection, delicately intellectual emotion, and faintly emotional intellectuality—this spirit is quite alien to childhood. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z The barter economy may well involve much more indirection than the money economy, in many cases. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z The worst problem is that shortening services add another layer of indirection to an already creaky system. Google gets into the URL shortening business ? in its own quiet way 2010-10-01T11:55:00Z Many business leaders felt that Roosevelt's "advance toward socialism by indirection" had to be stopped. Stock Market Lessons from Elvis' Infancy 2010-09-15T01:01:00Z Hence it must be that in the former army officer’s plan lay some intent more complex than mere open-and-shut meeting and slaying: some carefully planned and guileful climax to be approached by indirection. The Law of Hemlock Mountain All direct approaches failing, at last he tried indirection. True Detective Stories From the archives of the Pinkertons "What?" inquired Boone, wondering what topic Anne was approaching by this path of indirection. The Tempering This indirection would seem to be the result of a constant effort, on the part of everybody in authority, to shirk the responsibility for difficult situations. Drugging a Nation The Story of China and the Opium Curse I could use it to Susan's advantage, I believed, more effectively by indirection; I endeavored to do so now. The Book of Susan A Novel And very exquisitely, by fine indirection, he put her at her ease with him—conveyed the impression that time had done its work-a-day task of sobering passionate emotion into tranquil esteem. Shadows of Flames A Novel He is a child in feeling," she said, "without anything false, incapable of any indirection, a strong, steadfast, sincere, manly, and noble character. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine But instead she asked, with a happy indirection, "Where am I going?" Rose MacLeod Checkers gathered by indirection that he was wealthy outside of his business. Checkers A Hard-luck Story Here was the art of the demagogue, blinding the eyes of the people with sophistry and false pretences in order to secure by indirection that which could not be obtained by fair discussion. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 Even among themselves it is treated with extreme indirection and veiled hints. Washo Religion He was so enamored of metaphorical indirection that he tried to see everything in the terms of something else. Old Crow Of course it was done honestly; nobody suspects the Mayor of Boston of double-dealing, of intrigue, or of any indirection! The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence When it came and when the father realized that the mother also saw it, they feared to speak of it–even to themselves and by indirection. In the Heart of a Fool No wealth comes out of nothing, but all must be produced and distributed, and what one gets by indirection another loses or fails to get. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism For the faithful were frequently thrown off balance by a strategy of ironical indirection. A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) It aims at the poetry of things rather than of words, and works by suggestion and indirection rather than by elaboration. Whitman A Study He was ever for evasion, indirection; she for frank, open dealing in all things. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country The time has gone by for subterfuge and indirection.... The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Indirect and irresponsible influence they have now, but indirection and irresponsibility are dangerous elements in governments which assume to be representative, and are a constant menace. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Reference is frequently made in the early stories to divination, or the process of obtaining the will of the gods by indirection. Japan It is seen in his purpose to convey his message by suggestion and indirection, or as an informing, vitalizing breath and spirit. Whitman A Study She was very shy about telling of her early acquaintance with Whittier, and whatever I could learn was by indirection. Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. Is not this a survival of that old vice of womankind, indirection?... The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V With all her woman’s cunning of indirection, she brought the talk around to Philip Haig. The Heart of Thunder Mountain "He simply can't help it; indirection is Walter's long suit," Mrs. Standish took up the tale. Nobody He saw no way even vaguely to resolve upon what he felt able to do, except by indirection. The Prisoner Children do not understand the prudential maxims concerning health, upon which these restraints are founded; and if they can, "by any indirection," obtain things which gratify their palate, they will. Practical Education, Volume I Another kind of indirection that is very interesting is that of a boy who ostensibly is talking to one, but everything which he is saying is intended for another. A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes Besides she could not wait to ask her questions by any indirection. The Heart of Thunder Mountain All of these enjoyed Dumpling, and their tastes are ostensibly approved while at the same time being heavily undercut with satiric indirection. A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) To search out a Saxon word because it is Saxon and short is as reprehensible as to use the indirection of Latin words where directness is wanted. English: Composition and Literature He smiled at her earnestness, her unusual indirection. Otherwise Phyllis It seems to be the pride and pleasure of an Oriental to conceal his mind and purpose and to say and do things by the greatest indirection possible. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ But Wotan has no subterfuges or indirections of his own—not conscious ones; when he needs their aid, he uses another, as he had told Fricka. The Wagnerian Romances Virginia’s eyes fell before the gaze of these two men, 50 for they had none of the shyness or nothing of the indirection of the ruder men she had met. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West We might call him our Manx King Alfred, if the indirections of history did not rather tempt us to christen him our Manx King Lear. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 They felt that equivocation and indirection were thrust aside, and the law was now being laid down. The Candidate A Political Romance Much may be accomplished by correct teaching of good principles, but human nature is such that people learn even more through indirection than through instruction. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Why temporize by adopting half-way measures and a policy of indirection? History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States If we intend to say we will do nothing, let us say so plainly, and not by indirection. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 In 1256 Alexander IV, "with characteristic indirection," authorized inquisitors and their associates to absolve each other, and grant dispensations for irregularities. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals "I'm in the middle of the third movement, A W," he told me, like a man who had no time to waste on preliminaries or indirections. Greener Than You Think Sometimes it is seen in hints and shown by indirection but in other instances it is direct, positive, powerful. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Whatsoever I desire to do I will not do by indirection. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States The present, method of deducing the atom by indirection is very unsatisfactory. The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds He loved to wander, with aimless preoccupation, among closely-packed shelves, and in9 pursuance of this indirection was familiar with the interior of every library in the city of Philadelphia. The Flaw in the Sapphire Like thumb and index they formed a crescent, a threatening semicircle, reaching forward by indirection. Greener Than You Think Scott taught by indirection and did good by stealth. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Then the Mormons made mendacity take the place of murder, and went about to do by indirection what before they had approached direct. The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite He refers to this second wife once by indirection, thus: "The children of Laura are no longer motherless." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Furthermore, there was the question as to whether Cousin Julia, in any event, would value satisfaction secured thus by indirection? Elsie Marley, Honey The people ran from the Grass, not in a straight line from north to south, but by indirection, seeking first the seacoasts and then escape from the afflicted land. Greener Than You Think All the beautiful rewards of life come by indirection, and are the incidental results of simply doing our work up to our highest and best. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Yet with characteristic indirection, Jefferson assigned other reasons for substituting a written message for the usual personal address. Union and Democracy And he was to learn that for most of us fate works with curious indirection. The Forbidden Trail If my action does not offend those most nearly concerned, it will scarcely offend those removed by space, time, or indirection. The Moral Economy The other was not dull, nor did he usually travel by indirection. The Long Roll Captain de Mouret," the rough old warrior began, without any prelude or indirection, "I desire to send you at once to Paris on an errand of the utmost importance to myself and to this colony. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV Positive, and aggressive to the last degree, he never sought "by indirections to find directions out." Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective Now they were plunging into the naked and primordial conflict of man against woman, without reservations and without indirections—and it left her with a vague fear of some impending helplessness and isolation. Phantom Wires A Novel He had no duplicity, no indirection, no diplomacy. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 She too had taken what she wanted from life, but she had won it by indirection. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North This tone concept, or mental picture of tone qualities controls the vocal instrument by indirection. The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing That the prophet Joseph well understood how to "By indirections find directions out," clearly appears from his cunning expression of faith in the pretended revelation of the patriarch Hiram. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective I was alert to win her notice by any sort of indirection, and embarrassed to speechlessness when I had won it. Confessions of Boyhood Everywhere they impel and, to a large extent, though by indirection, they compel, prolific breeding among the less intelligent persons. The Red Conspiracy Human beings, all human beings, he had found, moved only by indirection. Never-Fail Blake "Where is my sister-in-law?" he asked next, and now at least I could not censure him for indirection. A Pair of Patient Lovers A woman makes her chief mistake when she judges a man by herself and attributes to him indirection and complexity of motive. The Spinster Book Whatever we may say to children on the subject of religion, whether directly or in teaching by indirection through songs and worship, must pass over somehow into action in order to have meaning and reality. Religious Education in the Family After due discussion they had determined that the time for cautious indirection was passed and that there would be no quibbling with the Abbot of Kirkstall. Beatrix of Clare "Who 're you looking for, Jim?" suddenly and peevishly demanded the man in the soiled white duck, as though impatient of the other's indirections. Never-Fail Blake Such intrigues, however, work in the dark and by indirection; it is not often easy to trace their course. The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain In his eyes, the second of these objectives never lost its importance; and it was in fact substantially adopted by indirection and by necessity in the closing periods of the war. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History That a State can do by indirection what it cannot do directly, is denied even by the Supreme Court of the United States. The Facts of Reconstruction "It is not impossible that I shall want them myself," responded Bean, unconsciously adopting the Tully indirection. Bunker Bean Even where the power is not nominally in her own hands, she often, as in the cases of Penelope or Esther, rules by indirection. Woman in Modern Society We managed things by mild indirections, by absurd circumlocutions. Children of the Market Place The regrettable aspect of Douglas's course is his attempt to nullify the Missouri Compromise by subtle indirection. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics It is doing under cover and by indirection, but certainly, what he proposes shall be done by direct proclamation of the President. American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) A liar is one who by direction or indirection seeks to deceive. John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life Along with these fixed qualities of action, women have a tendency to indirection when they advance. Woman in Modern Society Few men indulged in so little harsh criticism of others, and he expressed censure or disapprobation by humorous indirection rather than by open accusation. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations In the animal world the female is noted for her indirection. Sex and Society Where Sam laboriously arrived by the aid of his forty years' knowledge, the younger man leaped by the swift indirection of an Indian—or a woman. The Silent Places In the past some statesman, a Richelieu or a Bismarck, had a policy and led his nation to it by devious paths of indirection. Woman in Modern Society She liked to say to Gretchen things that were meant for other ears; there was novelty in the indirection. The Log School-House on the Columbia No, Countess, he remains ignorant; and I give you warning, Madam, I am not to be cross-questioned by indirection. The Sword Maker Congress has found ways of reaching by indirection objects which could not be approached directly. Our Changing Constitution For love is needlessly crafty, it has always an instinct of concealment, of indirection about it. The End of the World A Love Story Incidentally she read her Bible, maintained religious exercises in the village, provided the church with a carpet by methods of indirection and kept the church clean. Woman in Modern Society Though I must say," replied Mary Connynge, with indirection, "that I fancy the other far more, he being not so forward, nor so full of pure conceit. The Mississippi Bubble However, it is possible to do a thing or two by indirection in this world, as one half the race has had gone reason to learn. V. V.'s Eyes These, she understood, were the real questions that underlay Westerling's polite indirection. The Last Shot She responded, however, with something of her mother's indirection. The Frontiersmen Though the diver was shielded by the impenetrable fickle element that gave Achilles invulnerability, the air-pump above was exposed, and thus the diver might be slain by indirection. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 He reveals the man by the most skilful indirection, and by leaving his guard down, often allows the reader to score a point. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors He had set the idea in motion, and then, by methods of indirection, of which he was a master, he had urged it on to fulfillment. Scattergood Baines Paul didn't like that, and took refuge behind one of those Slavonic indirections which are typical of the Russian mind—an indirection hinting at mysterious purpose and power. Mary Minds Her Business Not having in English a corresponding number of rhymes, will not the translator have to resort to transpositions, substitutions, forcings, indirections, in order to compass the meaning and the poetry? Essays Æsthetical And in each book, the lesson has been conveyed with the unobtrusive indirection of fine art; the story is ever first, we are getting fiction not lectures. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities I proceed with his education rather by indirection and suggestion than by direct precept. Architecture and Democracy He knows not the beauty of the universe, who has not learned the subtile mystery, that Nature loves to work on us by indirections. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 "You are right, batuchka," said the blonde giant at last, matching indirection with indirection. Mary Minds Her Business What she does must be done by indirection and under disguise. The Mystery of Metropolisville Faint clews and indirections: manuscripts of Walt Whitman and his family. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1976 July - December The housing of the soldiers was another matter: that necessity was plain and urgent, and the miracle has been accomplished, but except by indirection it has contributed nothing to the permanent housing problem. Architecture and Democracy The "Sisters" were still living on last summer's glory, and only by such indirections alluded to defeats. Kincaid's Battery Culture comes, in a sense, by indirection, a man absorbs it and furnishes the conditions for its growth, but he cannot receive it directly from his teachers. A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 By indirection she obtained a description of Claghorn, so that he might not escape her if he came in. Bambi Incidentally, the sled went faster, and thus, by cunning indirection, did man increase his mastery over the beasts. White Fang "We waste little time in indirections, so I hope it's not out of the way for me to ask straightforwardly if you are truly in earnest, about wanting a home in Lilac Valley?" Her Father's Daughter "Lugur knows the secret of the Portal—if he dare use it," answered the captain, with a curious indirection. The Moon Pool It was thus sought by indirection to prevent the creation of a merchant marine by the American Colonists and to limit their commerce to British ships. James Otis, the pre-revolutionist “In your case, I fear, confession is exploitation by indirection, profit-making by ruse, self-aggrandizement at the expense of God.” Love of Life and Other Stories She was without practice in indirection, but she successfully hid her jealousy and her fears, though his manner was making their taunts and threats desperately real. The Cost "Ken where he lies!" answered the sexton, with national indirection of response. The Bride of Lammermoor Moreover he proved by the indirections of his misinformation that he had really been there and was not making ghost stories in order to impress us. The Mountains Naturally, the indirection of the Japanese was incomprehensible to him. Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis And if you will permit me—I do not impute indirection, of course—but your remark seems to require a footnote. The Market-Place In attaining this knowledge, I was compelled to resort to indirections by no means congenial to my nature, and which were really humiliating to me. My Bondage and My Freedom "In the second place," Theron went on, still more hesitatingly, "there seems a certain—what shall I say?—indirection in—in—" "In getting them together for a revival, and springing a debt-raising on them?" The Damnation of Theron Ware For, despite his artistic indirection, the baron's manner was conclusive, his intentions unmistakable. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation The second sought to get negro suffrage into the South by indirection at a time when a positive suffrage amendment could not be passed. The United States Since the Civil War I desired her to suppose that this referred to some Albany woman, but I was never skilful in indirection, and I do not believe that she was at all deceived. In the Valley I could be robbed by indirection, but this was too open and barefaced to be endured. My Bondage and My Freedom All that you've said by indirection, and much besides, has had its meaning to me. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama So old a man had no energy to expend in the indirections of haste. The Forest I admire your generous indignation against oppression and wringing by "any indirection from the poor peasant his vile trash." The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 Women, from their weaker condition, have from ages past been trained to gain their desires from men by indirection. Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife There seems to be a prevalent disposition in the religious world to do good by indirection and stratagem. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays What is it in us, arous'd by those indirections and directions? Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Representing life, it teaches, like life, by indirection, by those nods and winks that are thrown away on us blind horses in such profusion. Among My Books First Series Since our tuition is through emblems and indirections, 'tis well to know that there is method in it, a fixed scale, and rank above rank in the phantasms. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics He is the poet indeed of literality, but of passionate and significant literality, full of indirections as well as directness, and of readings between the lines. Poems By Walt Whitman She even praised Abner himself by indirection—as one strand in the general rustic theme. Under the Skylights I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection. The Canadian Elocutionist Then she said, with the indirection of her age and sex, pushing against Annie's knee, "I don't know what your name is." Annie Kilburn : a Novel By that fond indirection he brightened with fresh air and natural music and sunshine the dry routine of his unmated days. From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 I meant that you should discover me so, by my faint indirections; And I, when I meet you, mean to discover you by the like in you. Poems By Walt Whitman He would follow it about and hover above it, and by many gentle indirections seek to approach it. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton Having never had any occasion to create a false or deceitful impression or to accomplish anything by indirection, it was natural that they should not know what affectation was. Equality At best, however, this seems to me but an indifferent substitute, an inadequate "extra," doing limitedly the real work of education by indirection. Towards the Great Peace I bethink me that a thin withered straw is in Scotland called a windlestrae: perhaps such straws were thrown up to find out 'by indirection' the direction of the wind. The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 She flies pursuit, she is shy, and wild, and timid, and will be best wooed by indirection. Adventures in Friendship "What did you wish to see me about?"—with a use of the past tense as connoting something of indirection and hence of delicacy—a nicety customary, yet unconscious. Miss Lulu Bett Even when he lied we were not deceived; truth can be stated by indirection. Love, Life & Work Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others On the other hand, much can be accomplished by indirection, and by this I mean the buildings and the grounds and the cultural adjuncts that are offered by any school or college. Towards the Great Peace Yet—will it be credited?—more than one of us read it so hurriedly, perhaps with so passionate a longing to have it the truth, as not to perceive its satirical indirections. The Boss of Little Arcady Students of Shelley occasionally scan those pages with a view to pick some obscure ‘hints and indirections’, some veiled reminiscences, in the stories of the adventures and misfortunes of The Last Man or Lodore. Proserpine and Midas But without any such errand, or occupation, or indirection, we managed to extract considerable satisfaction from the view of the lower St. Lawrence and the Saguenay. Locusts and Wild Honey But that promise had been made under the influence of Hesden's ardent zeal for the right, and she found by indirection many excuses for avoiding its performance. Bricks Without Straw Think ye a life given to indirection and worming, to prying and scheming, is one of self-choice? Janice Meredith But he went no farther than the City Hotel; and here one may note a further contrivance of indirection on the part of our attending Fates. The Boss of Little Arcady In both a result is produced by indirection—by applying a force out of line of the ultimate direction. Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism Somehow the effect of his words was more potent on her than if he had not accused her by indirection. Constance Dunlap This is his personality,—the real Homer,—which lies deeper than his talents and skill, and which works through these by indirections. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers "It took you some time to get up that abstract, didn't it, Price?" he presently said, with artful indirection. The Prodigal Judge Tell about what we have seen to-night, mention the cabaret by indirection and Whitecap directly. The War Terror But you freely admit that indirection and succession do not invalidate design, and also that Paley and all the natural theologians drew the arguments which convinced your skeptic wholly from eyes indirectly or naturally produced. Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism He does not propel himself along by sheer force of muscle, after the plebeian fashion of the crow, for instance, but progresses by a kind of royal indirection that puzzles the eye. Winter Sunshine They don't give themselves at first,—like the real landscape and the sea, they are all indirections. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers The pathetic inefficiency and the continual indirection of the Spanish character are now apparent to the world; they were long ago apparent to those who have had our diplomatic duties to do. Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom He had gone at the job on the bias of indirection, picking out a passage at either side that the center might the more easily "pull." The Blazed Trail Being a woman, she comprehended perfectly the indirection of a woman's approaches, and knew well enough by this time that Penelope, whatever her personal leanings, must feel with her family in regard to this engagement. Their Pilgrimage And were not the new duties to be used to pay governors and judges, thus by subtle indirection undermining the very basis of legislative independence? The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England But it is too slightly so and of too much indirection. Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 He was, as I remember, unable to tell directly, what made him happy or unhappy, but by wonderful indirections he could tell. Essays — Second Series And so, Count," he continued, to the Italian, "the administration of the criminal law in our country may seem to you subject to delays and indirections that are not justified. The Sleuth of St. James's Square She blushed, and only replied, with absolute indirection, "Oh, I am so thankful to you, Pierre Philibert!" The Golden Dog One can see every day how women manage,—the very word tells the whole story,—MANAGE men, by cunning strategy, cajolery, and all manner of indirections, just as if they were elephants. Gala-days "You don't feel I'm neglecting you in my too-much poker?" he tried again, by indirection. On the Makaloa Mat Ah lover and perfect equal, I meant that you should discover me so by faint indirections, And I when I meet you mean to discover you by the like in you. Leaves of Grass The great age of the Count—he seemed to be the representative in the world of some vanished empire—gave his irony a certain indirection. The Sleuth of St. James's Square Our views do not permit the woman to show without great indirection whom she hates or whom she likes; nor may she indicate clearly whom she loves, nor must she appear solicitous. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students Left to themselves, they always approached by indirection. The Jacket (Star-Rover) What subtle indirection and significance in you? what clue to all in you? what fluid, vast identity, Holding the universe with all its parts as one—as sailing in a ship? Leaves of Grass All must have reference to the ensemble of the world, and the compact truth of the world, There shall be no subject too pronounced—all works shall illustrate the divine law of indirections. Leaves of Grass What about these likes of myself that draw me so close by tender directions and indirections? Leaves of Grass We have then, first, to consider how, by comparatively remote indirection, to introduce those conditions into the ``funded'' complex, which will give rise to the association. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students We have led women so far by our indirection that according to Stendthal, to be honest, is to them identical with appearing naked in public. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students |
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