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Meanings of indirectness in English

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

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Examples for "directness"
Examples for "directness"
1
Growing suddenly serious, she regarded him with a look of unsettling directness.
Hood
2
The simple directness of the spoken word has been allowed to stand.
Quiet Talks on Following the Christ
3
The Princess talked on in a fashion of perfect simplicity and directness.
His Hour
4
The corporal raised his head and replied with the same peasant-like directness:
The Downfall
5
There was a straight-forward directness in the gaze of his blue eyes.
The Forfeit
Usage of indirectness in English
1
To do so intentionally, you go by the law of indirectness.
The Silence: What It Is and How To Use It
2
There was nothing apologetic in this man, no indirectness in his method of attack.
A Modern Chronicle — Volume 05
3
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 All...
4
The antidote is to narrow down the indirectness with straightforwardness.
Ebony
5
There are considerations, proprieties, a necessary indirectness-hemust use, in short, a little art.
Italian Hours
6
Socrates, as well as Plato, feared indirectness and wrote conclusively about memory and wisdom.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
7
And the fuzziness and indirectness of all that data means it's very open to interpretation.
Wired
8
The other is your use of indirectness to communicate.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
9
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 Maga...
10
Then the woman, with a woman's curious subtlety and indirectness, reached a somewhat singular conclusion.
Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 3
11
There is no miserable waste of words,-noindirectness of talk; what he thinks, he prints.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 / A Mag...
12
Anything was better than this constant indirectness of gaining his father's views through his mother.
Dangerous Days
13
Mrs. Richards remained unabashed at her vis-à-vis's palpable indirectness.
The Blood Red Dawn
14
Saunders failed to see the call for such slow indirectness of response to an ordinary request.
The Desired Woman
15
She was not looking her best and her mood was one of artificial indirectness that offended him.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
16
Her clothes and her manners and her accent all had come, albeit with slow indirectness, from London.
On the Firing Line
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