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Indirectness

noun
1.
Having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal.





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"Indirectness" Quotes from Famous Books



... glance; and after the trial he sent her his card, he dogged her in the train! What was she to think? 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 • E. W. Hornung
... nurse, settled herself by Nellie's side, and Nellie knew that she either sought confidences or had them to impart. 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. It was some time before the question was reached which ...
— The Deserter • Charles King
... would have lain in the expression of a stress upon him and his customary daily existence, beyond what any definitely proposed issue of it, at least for the moment, explained. Something of that is involved in the very idea of a classical education, at least for such as he; in its seeming indirectness [211] or lack of purpose, amid so much difficulty, as contrasted with forms of education more obviously useful or practical. He found himself in a system of fixed rules, amid which, it might be, some of his own tendencies and inclinations ...
— Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater


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


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