indirection

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At first, the comedy, cleverly constructed through sly directorial indirections, prevails: Cassius’s job interview, for instance, involves a deadpan, over-the-top display of his qualifications, which, we soon find out, is full of falsehoods.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 3, 2018

Again and again, following the trail suggested by her objects, finding directions out by indirections, Byrne opens out Austen's story with a novelist's persistent probing of the evidence.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2013

In that collection and the books that followed, her forms relaxed, her voice gained a new, often furious register, and her societal concerns became specific, rather than blurred by the indirections of the period style.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2012

It began: "The Japanese Government Information Office published this morning the following declaration . . .", went on for seven paragraphs of pretty indirections.

From Time Magazine Archive

What about these likes of myself that draw me so close by tender directions and indirections?

From Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Walt