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Indirectness   Listen
noun
Indirectness  n.  
1.
The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.
2.
Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty.





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"Indirectness" Quotes from Famous Books



... on it for due abundance even of meat and drink and raiment, even of wisdom and wit and honour. It is too much to say that our so preponderantly humanised and socialised adolescence was to make us look out for these things with a subtle indirectness; but I return to my proposition that there may still be a charm in seeing such hazards at work through a given, even if not in a systematised, case. My cases are of course given, so that economy of observation after the fact, as I have called it, becomes inspiring, ...
— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James
... compulsion of a dumb outward truthfulness would never build up the real inner truth of the soul;—all this Hawthorne perceived and endeavored to portray in a form which should be as a parable, applying its morality to the men and women of to-day, all the more persuasively because of its indirectness. As a study of a system of social discipline never before so expounded, it claimed the deepest attention. And never was the capacity of sinning men and women for self-delusion more wonderfully illustrated than in this romance. The only avenue ...
— A Study Of Hawthorne • George Parsons Lathrop


Words linked to "Indirectness" :   directness, characteristic, allusiveness, indirect, discursiveness, mediateness, mediacy


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