Crossword-Solution: INDIRECTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Indirection | n. | Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. |
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| indirect procedure or action | 1 answer |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEAG
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with INDIRECTION (5)
The white slave has taken from him, by indirection, what the black slave has taken from him, directly, and without ceremony.
And if you will permit me--I do not impute indirection, of course--but your remark seems to require a footnote.
And is she e’en gane?” “She died yesterday,” said Ravenswood; “and desired to be buried here beside her husband; you know where he lies, no doubt?” “Ken where he lies!” answered the sexton, with national indirection of response.
She was without practice in indirection, but she successfully hid her jealousy and her fears, though his manner was making their taunts and threats desperately real.
Young people of that time who were supposed hardly to know their own hearts indulged the habit of politic indirection quite as much as young people in the same condition indulge it in this time; so when Ben-Hur inquired for the good Balthasar, and with grave courtesy desired to know if he would be pleased to see him, he really addressed the daughter a notice of his arrival.
Quotes with INDIRECTION (3)
So small footprint yet the shovelling jealous sea has not erased it. You were for me the necessary exemplary figure of dedication and endurance. Whatever your inner life truly was it was ardently pursued. You observed with acute imagination. When you spoke you drove to the heart of things though sometimes through wry indirection. You manifested the value of the life dedicated to an art. Whatever terrors you underwent they may have been very great you did not evince them. You …
If women patronize the wheel the number of buyers will be twice as large. If women ride they must, when riding, dress more rationally than they have been wont to do. If they do this many prejudices as to what they may be allowed to wear will melt away. Reason will gain upon precedent and ere long the comfortable, sensible, and artistic wardrobe of the rider will make the conventional style of woman's dress absurd to the eye and unenduring to the understanding. A reform often …
Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial.