Significados de indirect expression en inglés

Was the old man's thoughtful offer of hospitality another indirect expression of the natural human distress which he perversely concealed?

A South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman played down the commentary, calling it "an indirect expression of the North's various grievances."

"It is rather singular that he should be absent at this particular time," said Markland, giving indirect expression to his own intruding suspicions.