The unfortunate museum officials obeyed with artistic indirection.
We know the Senators' tics and mannerisms, their preferred methods of verbal indirection, their expressions when they're angry or surprised or bored.
With typical Communist indirection, Moscow and Peking used tiny, insignificant Albania as the symbol of the quarrel and as their ideological whipping boy.
What’s Behind the New Iranian Charm Offensive Usually, it’s hard to tell quite what’s going on with Iran. 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.” Translated — and anything coming out of Tehran must be translated — Oriental indirection means “listen to what I didn’t say” and “watch my eyes dance as I don’t say it.” It’s a bit ...
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Bob Woodward in Sydney Morning Herald I was as speechless as I was in July 2006 when I interviewed him and he said he was not a military commander, that he could make the case that he was 'by indirection, two or three steps removed',Woodward told me afterwards.
Frederick Reiken in NPR We use a metaphorical version of sleight of hand all the time,Reiken says. "There's so much indirection in our lives."
Ernie Chambers in Stateline.org I will have achieved by indirection, during the waning hours of my career here, what I could not directly accomplish. This demonstrates that there is more than one way to crack a walnut,Chambers said in a telephone interview with...