subtlety, circumlocution, terseness, indirectness, indeterminacy, literalness, allusiveness, artifice, nuance, slyness, illusionism, didacticism, staginess, speciousness, obliqueness, profundity, mimesis, metafiction, blatancy, abjection, concision, subjectivism, succinctness, pithiness, reification, incomprehensibility, sophist, concreteness, peevishness, deliberateness, poeticism, jamesian, artlessness, metaphysic, buncombe, hermeneutic, metonymy, punctiliousness, inwardness, immoderation, ambiguousness, sophistic, dissimulation, suavity, hearer, dialectics, objective correlative, impenetrability, clownishness, interiority, chiaroscuro, nabokovian, uptightness, inarticulateness, compleat, nebulousness, puerility, archaism, unnaturalness, impassivity, prolixity, solitariness, wordiness, stylisation, existentialist philosophy, aforethought, loquacity, anouilh, lexis, literalism, homiletic, auteurism, caprice, pompousness, unintelligibility, immanence, gratuitousness, casuistry, portamento, triteness, opera buffa, ingratiation, heterodoxy, jaggedness, nefariousness, impersonality, hemingwayesque, contrariness, bowdlerization, duplicity, fixity, incoherence, politesse, repugnancy, ambiguity, devilry, exactness, guilelessness, roguishness, prurience, recitatives, conventionality, equivocation, finesse, exaggeration, hyperbole, obfuscation, wordplay, circumspection, mystification, sleight, understatement, caution, decorum, distancing, feints

circuitous, roundabout

deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, procedure, process