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indirection
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Because the women can’t vote or hold public office, their improvements get implemented through a mixture of trickery and indirection.—
Deborah Williams
July 14,
Literary Hub,
14 July 2025 -
Compared with Severance’s usual storytelling mode in season two, where any explicit plot point is buried in layers of ambiguity, vagueness, and artful indirection, the conversation between the Marks is immediately, beautifully blunt.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Evasiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evasiveness. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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