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Updated: May 12, 2025
At the end the proud structure was a lonely obelisk furred in a green covering to the very flagpole on its peak, from which waved disappointed yet still aspiring runners. Upward and outward continuously, empty lot, fillingstation, artistic billboard, all alike to the greedy fingers. Like thumb and index they formed a crescent, a threatening semicircle, reaching forward by indirection.
He was so enamored of metaphorical indirection that he tried to see everything in the terms of something else. But to-day she had her own thoughts. She sat staring into the fire, her cheeks burned by the leaping heat, and Dick, looking up at her, stopped on an uncompleted line. "You haven't," he said, "heard a word." "Not much of it," said Nan. She looked at him disarmingly.
When Holmes appeared upon the lecture platform it was to discourse of literature or science, or to treat some text of social manners or morals with a crisp Poor Richard sense and mother wit, and a brilliancy of illustration, epigram, and humor that fascinated the most obdurate "come-outer". Holmes's lectures on the English poets at the Lowell Institute were among the most noted of that distinguished platform, and everywhere the poet was one of the most popular of "attractions". There were not wanting those who maintained that his use of the platform was the correct one, and that the orators who, often by happy but incisive indirection, fought the good fight of the hour abused their opportunity.
Women, from their weaker condition, have from ages past been trained to gain their desires from men by indirection. In the worst form, this appears as deceit; in the best, as tact. Laying aside the moral aspect, deceit is always unwise in a wife, since, in time, it defeats its own end.
Sister Soulsby interjected, with vivacity. "Well," said Theron, picking his words, "in the first place, it rests with the Presiding Elder to say whether an adjournment can be made until Tuesday, not with me." "That's all right. Leave that to me," said the lady. "In the second place," Theron went on, still more hesitatingly, "there seems a certain what shall I say? indirection in in "
Ansell began, with the pleasant abruptness that was one of the subtlest instruments of her indirection; and as Justine acquiesced, she added, yielding her slight lines to the luxurious depths of an arm-chair: "I have been rather suddenly asked by an invalid cousin to go to Europe with her next week, and I can't go contentedly without being at peace about our friends."
"I I well, you see, I'd rather not come for just a minute until I've explained to you that that my appearance may strike you as being a trifle unusual, in fact, I might say, queer," pleaded Mr. Leary, seeking by subtle methods of indirection to prepare her for what must surely follow. "Never mind explainin' gimme a look!" The suspicious tenseness in her voice increased.
Then she said, with the indirection of her age and sex, pushing against Annie's knee, "I don't know what your name is." "Have you never heard my name? It's Annie. How do you like it?" "It's it's too short," said the child, from her readiness always to answer something that charmed Annie. "Well, then you can make it longer. You can call me Aunt Annie.
But he went no farther than the City Hotel; and here one may note a further contrivance of indirection on the part of our attending Fates. From the evening train of that day the 'bus brought another strange gentleman, of an Eastern manner, but somewhat neater of dress than the first one and speaking with an accent much less obtrusive.
It is hard that she can do nothing to help him. Aware of her father's interest in her every wish and aspiration, Esther refrains from any suggestion which may cause additional care. Sir Donald's observing vision notes each emotional clew. Many unspoken queries find vocal reply. Delicate points are cleared by suggestive indirection. Neither completely yields to profitless conjecture.
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