How to Use indirection in a Sentence

indirection

noun

• This might suggest that a truer study of the psyche and its place in the world could be conducted via indirection or obliquity.
  — Matthew Bevis, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
• This is, of course, an indirect evocation of Donald Trump in a movie that doesn’t have much truck with indirection.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• The light of Ulster traveled not by particle or wave but by indirection, hint and rumor.
  — Jennifer Egan, New York Times, 26 June 2017
• My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness comes to me, which is by fits and starts and by indirection.
  — Hillel Italie, Philly.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• His essence has been captured by indirection, via a gigantic lifetime write-around.
  — Tom Zoellner, New York Times, 1 June 2018
• Antrim’s writing here is brilliant in its indirection and compression.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2021
• The nearly plotless story snares us through indirection to produce a pleasingly dark collage.
  — Claude Peck, Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
• Dutiful sons often revere their fathers for their instruction in the ways of the world—by direction and indirection, sterling example and train wreck.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 5 May 2022
• In fairness, elaboration could detract from Magid’s mode of storytelling, which relies a lot on indirection and leaving things unsaid.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2019
• The letter is included in the report and is an exquisite piece of clerical indirection and equivocation.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2020
• Unlike Shakespeare, Greenblatt does not choose a strategy of indirection.
  — Glenn C. Althschuler, Philly.com, 18 May 2018
• This is music that comes packed in velvet under any circumstances — the melodies liquid and slightly droopy, the harmonies tinged with indirection — and Bullock’s performance delivered a full helping of sybaritic delight.
  — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2018
• What the owners of the street lusted after was recognition of superior comprehension of what counted in this world, and their strategy for getting it combined restraint and indirection.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2017
• Even here, though, Ms. DeLappe shows her sophisticated grasp of exposition by indirection and of the telling, seemingly insignificant detail that wrings the heart.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2016
• The show loves to lampoon moral inconsistencies of Victorian England with Python-like indirection.
  — Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 4 May 2018
• Multiple layers of obfuscation and indirection are standard in this criminal realm.
  — Rahul Kashyap, Quartz, 15 Jan. 2020
• Wong often proceeds by indirection, and the obvious contrast of this first meeting — between Big Labor’s encumbrances and Roosevelt’s dexterity — made, in retrospect, a deliberate point.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New York Times, 23 July 2016
• Axios-ese strikes me as particularly unsuited to corporate communication, which for better or worse is packed deliberately with euphemism and indirection and exaggerated diplomacy.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024