Having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal.
1 To do so intentionally, you go by the law of indirectness .
2 There was nothing apologetic in this man, no indirectness in his method of attack.
3 The explanation, with the usual indirectness of a Griswold, was sugared with a compliment.
4 The antidote is to narrow down the indirectness with straightforwardness.
5 There are considerations, proprieties, a necessary indirectness - he must use, in short, a little art.
6 Socrates, as well as Plato, feared indirectness and wrote conclusively about memory and wisdom.
7 And the fuzziness and indirectness of all that data means it's very open to interpretation.
8 The other is your use of indirectness to communicate.
9 He questions him about himself, with such directness or indirectness as instinct and experience dictate.
10 Then the woman, with a woman's curious subtlety and indirectness , reached a somewhat singular conclusion.
11 There is no miserable waste of words , - no indirectness of talk; what he thinks, he prints.
12 Anything was better than this constant indirectness of gaining his father's views through his mother.
13 Mrs. Richards remained unabashed at her vis-à-vis's palpable indirectness .
14 Saunders failed to see the call for such slow indirectness of response to an ordinary request.
15 She was not looking her best and her mood was one of artificial indirectness that offended him.
16 Her clothes and her manners and her accent all had come, albeit with slow indirectness , from London.
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