It demands habits of inward attention, and it often proceeds by indirection and obliquity.

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More impressive still, A.L. Kennedy has a keen feel for the jousting indirection of male banter.

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Each good moment seemed to trail off into confusion and indirection.

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And third, there's the scenario of domain names as nothing more than a level of indirection in Internet numbering, allowing sites to move without notifying every last database and spreading loads among sites with the same service.

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