indirectness

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For example, directness when speaking is common and valued in American business culture, but indirectness is the norm in some other cultures.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

This statement has everything: the bureaucratic indirectness of Soviet speech, the privileging of “fruits of labor” over the people who created them, and, of course, the utter disregard for human life.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 4, 2019

And, finally, he perhaps felt the time wasn’t right for any indirectness.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2017

Direct answers are important, but indirectness has its place too.

From US News • Feb. 22, 2016

I only instance its morally certain results to make apparent how the general bearing of religious beliefs on social practice is, in one way, veiled by its indirectness.

From St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians A Practical Exposition by Gore, Charles