indirection

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“The same hallmarks we listen for in Rorem’s music will be found in his essays a well: indirection, instinctive grace, intellectual aplomb, a lyrical line.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2022

The effect of these lines, which reach back into the past while projecting far into the future, is that of a rebus, with the stunning phrase “the final whereabouts” offering one more breath of indirection.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2022

There are two levels of indirection from the core business of Robinhood.

From The Verge • Mar. 22, 2022

It turned out that the famously elusive artist, with his signature habit of strategic indirection, had submitted it as a proposal for a site-specific sculpture.

From New York Times • May 13, 2021

Back in Harlem, he had often liked to get at something through this kind of indirection.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey