A desultory sequence of ideas, an excessive vagueness and indirectness of expression, a peculiar and abnormal latinity, a constant tendency to exaggeration, and an immoderate indulgence in learned and literary allusions - all these are obstacles lying in the way of a study of Propertius.   anvd [Please select]

The _act of speaking_ in a _round_ about way; particularly a studied indirectness or evasiveness of speech.   anvd [Please select]

There was nothing apologetic in this man, no indirectness in his method of attack.   anvd [Please select]

Then the woman, with a woman's curious subtlety and indirectness, reached a somewhat singular conclusion.   anvd [Please select]

Anything was better than this constant indirectness of gaining his father's views through his mother.   anvd [Please select]

"A person who is very sick, is of course, always in danger, which may be more or less imminent," replied the doctor, with professional indirectness.   anvd [Please select]

Urdu is perhaps the politest of written tongues and lends itself most readily to indirectness; but since he did not expect to read a catalogue of exact facts, he was not disappointed.   anvd [Please select]