The direct result of socialising every day in the bars may be happiness and meeting new people, but theindirect results could be addiction, or even poverty.
Indirect messages permit communicative contacts when, without them, the alternatives would be total inhibition, silence, and solitude on the one hand, or, on the other, communicative behavior that is direct, offensive, and hence forbidden. This is a painful choice. In actual practice, neither alternative is likely to result in the gratification of personal or sexual needs. In this dilemma,indirect communications provide a useful compromise. As an early move in the dating game, the young man might invite the young woman to dinner or to the movies.
Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path;oblique.
In an effort to beat the traffic jams, they opted to take anindirect route to their destination.
Did you, byindirect, and forced courſes / Subdue, and poyſon this tong Maides affections? / Or came it by requeſt, and ſuch faire queſtion / As ſoule, to ſoule affordeth?
2002, Peter Watermeyer,Handbook for Process Plant Project Engineers:
In the case of a piece of equipment such as a pump, the supplier's costs may be broken down into the directs of labour, material, and component costs on the one hand, and theindirects of customized engineering, sales, factory overheads, and order management costs on the other.
2010, Anna M. Gil-Lafuente and José M. Merigó (editos),Computational Intelligence in Business and Economics
Gradually analytical thinking was taking a greater awareness of the importance it took for all the investigation system of the possible identification or traceability of fixed costs and, in general, of theindirects of other times.
1902, William S. Monroe, “Chapter 4”, inSteam Heating and Ventilation:
Indirect radiators are seldom installed except for rooms on the first or second floors; and in the former case the duct, D, is very short, and in the latter it is usually from 12 to 16 feet long. It should be stated in this connection thatindirects of large size should be spread out as much as possible so as to give a large area against the current of air.
