| 单词 | indirectness |
| 例句 | Against girls and their indirectness, their whisperings, he would be helpless. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The etiquette around “unfriending” is still evolving, a process impeded both by the nomenclature and the indirectness of the interaction. Perspective | Miss Manners: ‘Unfriending’ etiquette still fuzzy 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z “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.” Special Report: Contemporary Art: The Frenetic World of Yi Zhou 2010-12-01T12:10:00Z For example, directness when speaking is common and valued in American business culture, but indirectness is the norm in some other cultures. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z This statement has everything: the bureaucratic indirectness of Soviet speech, the privileging of “fruits of labor” over the people who created them, and, of course, the utter disregard for human life. What HBO’s “Chernobyl” Got Right, and What It Got Terribly Wrong 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z It's a lot better than indirectness, however—and it's a whole lot less work. 7 Signs You're Dealing With a Passive-Aggressive Person 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Based on decades of studying indirectness in conversation — and a lifetime of using language to communicate — I’d say no. Opinion | It’s not just Trump’s message that matters. There’s also his metamessage. 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Direct answers are important, but indirectness has its place too. 7 No-Fail Responses to Your Child's Questions About Sex 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Rather, it is by understanding how creativity and innovation, even with all their inherent messiness, disorder, and indirectness, need specific situations and contexts in order to flourish and effect meaningful change. Innovation Overload: Why Saying "Creativity" Is Not Enough 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Kautsky has cited as an argument against the Soviet Constitution the indirectness of elections, which contradicts the fixed laws of bourgeois democracy. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z By that magnificent and masterly indirectness which means the only dramatic straightness and intensity. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z They had already established themselves in him before he noticed them; and the indirectness took this form—that the passion of the chase gave place to an interest in the valley itself. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z But the question is one of directness or indirectness of aim. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z "Especially, the current methods of annexing the property of others are characterized by an indirectness and refinement very grateful to the natural feelings." Teaching the Child Patriotism 2011-07-03T02:00:11.747Z Moreover the uncertainty and indirectness of any injury to the Eller plaintiffs underscore the fact that the balance of equities weighs against preliminary injunctive relief.” The Fifth Down: N.F.L. Says Second Lawsuit Is Unlikely to Succeed 2011-04-04T22:11:01Z May its distinctness make up for its indirectness.... The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z This he proceeded to do, advancing on his subject with what he thought was a crafty indirectness: "You know, Miss Maitland, you're not a credit to Long Island." Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z Very great wealth introduces too many intermediaries, too great indirectness, too much that is extrinsic, too frequent hindrances and superficialities. The Holy Earth Yet within this general straightforwardness there is a singular eccentricity and indirectness in detail. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 I only instance its morally certain results to make apparent how the general bearing of religious beliefs on social practice is, in one way, veiled by its indirectness. St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians A Practical Exposition If it is to be threaded at all, it must be only with the greatest caution and, at times, indirectness. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations Something else Martin noticed, while Dr. Ichi talked on with Oriental indirectness. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story Because he couldn't find answers to these questions for himself, he tried, during supper, to sound Uncle Sim, leading up to the subject by an adroit indirectness. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Ivan said this in a perfect fury, giving him to understand with obvious intention that he scorned any subterfuge or indirectness and meant to show his cards. The Brothers Karamazov In trying to realise the methods of land tenure amongst the Greeks, we are baffled by the indirectness of the evidence available. On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay Short of trunk and short of continuous limb, it is yet a stout and rugged object, the indirectness of its branching branches adding to its picturesque quality. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 The act of speaking in a round about way; particularly a studied indirectness or evasiveness of speech. Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois "I know that it must seem so to you," she admitted, reading my thoughts and answering them with skilful indirectness. The Bronze Hand 1897 The reader may even be annoyed and baffled by my indirectness and unwillingness to be specific. The Untroubled Mind The fact that in practice the Territorial Committee ordinarily did participate in the legislative process was largely offset by the exceeding cumbersomeness and indirectness of the system. The Governments of Europe Still less do they mean those mental habits of suspicion, mystery and indirectness, which may infect communities as well as individuals. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 The two languages are so different in nature that anything like a literal rendering of one into the other is sure to result in awkwardness and indirectness. Heidi (Gift Edition) There is no miserable waste of words,—no indirectness of talk; what he thinks, he prints. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 He had heretofore known only in the indirectness of theory the sudden capriciousness of mountain weather; storms that burst and cannonade without warning; trickling waters that leap overnight into maddened freshets. A Pagan of the Hills This predilection of his probably accounts for the obscurity or tantalizing indirectness of his writings. The Last Harvest The connexion of thought with space seems to have a certain character of indirectness which appears to be lacking in the connexion of thought with time. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Indirect influence alone remained to her, and she surmised that her ultimate triumph would depend upon the perfection of her indirectness. The Miller Of Old Church The explanation, with the usual indirectness of a Griswold, was sugared with a compliment. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe In this contrast between the earlier and the later epistles we have an evidence of their genuineness which is all the stronger because of its indirectness. Companion to the Bible You cannot dally with brilliant indirectness; you must make every man and woman understand that you are goldenly sincere, forcefully earnest, earnestly honest, high of intention, sound of purpose, direct of method. The Young Man and the World Something of the old, quizzical look was playing about the corner of her pretty mouth as her elder sister, with feminine indirectness, began her verbal skirmishing with the subject. The Deserter He insinuates truth with a friendly indirectness, and banters us out of our folly with a foreign instance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Wilberforce and Newman never cleared themselves of the suspicion of indirectness. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant He was not willing to be lectured about indirectness. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics "I wish you'd leave metaphor and come to plain speaking," cried Lambert in an irritable tone, for the conversation was getting on his nerves by reason of its prolixity and indirectness. Red Money "I never saw," he says, "so little indirectness in any statesman as in the First Consul." Drake, Nelson and Napoleon Quietly, but with tactful indirectness, Jesus lets Judas know that He knows. Quiet Talks on John's Gospel The tilting of the head a little to one side suggests a habit of indirectness and a tendency to "stall." Certain Success Here at the very beginning of the reconnaissance we had run against the stone wall of African indirectness and procrastination. African Camp Fires And here we must say a word regarding a certain great law that we may call the "law of indirectness." What All The World's A-Seeking The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness Power and Happiness The aristocracy which could survive such conditions had to do so by indirectness and courtier-like flattery, by blandishment and deceit. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines His faults are prolixity, indirectness, and want of constructive power, and consequently the sustained sweetness and sumptuousness of his verse are apt to cloy. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature To do so intentionally, you go by the law of indirectness. The Silence: What It Is and How To Use It But Boker was not wholly wed to theatrical demands; he still approached the stage in the spirit of the poet who was torn between loyalty to poetic indirectness, and necessity for direct dialogue. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini There was the voice in which he had offered her his aid; there was the look in his eyes; there was the delicate indirectness of that offer. The Shadow of the Rope When that abhorrence which society now shows to direct theft, is shown to theft of all degrees of indirectness, then will these mercantile vices disappear. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice Nellie Whitehead was not given to indirectness, and Claire had a feeling that for some reason her friend was finding it advisable to lead up to her project rather cautiously. The Blood Red Dawn One is inseparable from the subtlety and difficulty of the thought or the compression and pregnant indirectness of the phrase. From Chaucer to Tennyson He questions him about himself, with such directness or indirectness as instinct and experience dictate. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 "A person who is very sick, is of course, always in danger, which may be more or less imminent," replied the doctor, with professional indirectness. Poor and Proud, or the Fortunes of Katy Redburn: a Story for Young Folks "Not if it had been like Casaubon," said Sir James, conscious of some indirectness in his answer, and of holding a strictly private opinion as to the perfections of his first-born. Middlemarch He was reasoning against the desire, which had returned with intensity, to take her in his arms; to have done with indirectness; to explain exactly what he felt. The Voyage Out "I suppose I should not have thought of it but for the turn the talk took to-night," she returned with feminine indirectness. The Philistines Shakespeare understood perfectly the charm of indirectness, of making his readers seem to discover for themselves what he means to show them. Among My Books First Series The candor of his nature refused the least deceit, and rejected every degree of indirectness without consciousness or effort. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis "You want to know something about him," she added, not choosing to indulge Rosamond's indirectness. Middlemarch They offered him a chance of pleading his cause, this time, with a happy indirectness of allusion at which not even a young lady's susceptibility could take offence. The Fallen Leaves "Well, gentlemen," he began, with the obvious indirectness of a man not used to diplomacy, "how do you like your accommodations?" The Lady of the Aroostook She was not looking her best and her mood was one of artificial indirectness that offended him. We Can't Have Everything He said one morning with some indirectness: 'I had such a lovely dream last night, Mother.' Tenterhooks "Well, it's for a reason I have, and then one or two more on top of that," replied the former, with his usual indirectness. The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter A tale illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont Upon every form of private corporation—railroad, industrial, mining, public utility—is conferred a peculiarly sweeping and insidious power of taxation the indirectness of which often obscures its frightful nature and effects. Great Fortunes from Railroads There are considerations, proprieties, a necessary indirectness—he must use, in short, a little art. Italian Hours This sense of proportion, of close or remote relation, of directness and indirectness, the feeling for perspective, so-called, can be acquired only by continued practice, for sharpening the faculty of apprehension and appreciation. Public Speaking Urdu is perhaps the politest of written tongues and lends itself most readily to indirectness; but since he did not expect to read a catalogue of exact facts, he was not disappointed. King of the Khyber Rifles Saunders failed to see the call for such slow indirectness of response to an ordinary request. The Desired Woman "It certainly contains some interesting information," said our Hero, with a Quaker-like indirectness of reply. Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green Alive to his own indirectness, he was conscious at once of the slight sign of reservation, and said: 'Tell me...' and swerved sheer away from his question: 'how is Madame d'Auffray?' Beauchamp's Career — Complete Alive to his own indirectness, he was conscious at once of the slight sign of reservation, and said: 'Tell me . . .' and swerved sheer away from his question: 'how is Madame d'Auffray?' Beauchamp's Career — Volume 5 I presume she was fascinated by the indirectness of your speech, the touches of humor and your very stern manner. Letters of Franklin K. Lane Her clothes and her manners and her accent all had come, albeit with slow indirectness, from London. On the Firing Line The opening was too good, therefore, to be neglected, though she came to the subject with much of the indirectness and perhaps justifiable address of a woman. The Deerslayer Hence, by that power of indirectness to accomplish in an hour what strenuous aiming will not effect in a life-time, she fascinated the Bishop to an unprecedented degree. Two on a Tower ‘If you adore her, I suppose you must have her!’ replied his mother with dry indirectness. Life's Little Ironies Manston still persisted in his suit, but with more of his former indirectness, now that he saw how unexpectedly well she stood an open attack. Desperate Remedies Mrs. Penniman was a tall, thin, fair, rather faded woman, with a perfectly amiable disposition, a high standard of gentility, a taste for light literature, and a certain foolish indirectness and obliquity of character. Washington Square With a charming indirectness, however, which did not escape him, she replied, "Le Gardeur is very proud of you to-day, Pierre." The Golden Dog Clarence had taken a fancy to this Indian, half steward, half vacquero, who had reciprocated it with a certain dog-like fidelity, but also a feline indirectness that was part of his nature. Susy, a story of the Plains The transition from directness and immediateness to indirectness and mediation, along with the notions of space and time appropriated in the process, is in many ways reflected in the process of language constitution. The Civilization of Illiteracy "Would Tadjie, Mamma?" with a directness that would not admit of indirectness. Tattine Anything was better than this constant indirectness of gaining his father's views through his mother. Dangerous Days See from your childhood all smallness, all indirectness that has been yours; look well at it, and in its light do you not see every man your brother? Dreams On the other hand, Billy, with true feminine indirectness, insists that it means "The Master who Shouts and Howls." The Land of Footprints Socrates, as well as Plato, feared indirectness and wrote conclusively about memory and wisdom. The Civilization of Illiteracy Within this pragmatic framework, a level of indirectness is constituted: confirmation, or what cybernetics identifies as feedback, in all biological processes. The Civilization of Illiteracy |
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