indirection
Noun
Meaning
Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.
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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
Languages, literature, art, music, history: are all self-evident helps - and even mathematics and sciences, by training memory and demanding the analytical approach, are helpful by indirection.
Bad as euphemism is, however, indirection is worse.
Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.
Bad as euphemism is, however, indirection is worse. I notice that a writer in a recent magazine gives this advice to budding newspaper men:.
he could see through the indirections of diplomats