Saying something hard, ugly or forbidden to name in a gentle, indirect or disguised way.
In Inferno
three times it made it spin with all the waters; at the fourth it raised the stern and sent the bow downward, as pleased the Other, until the sea closed over us.
"As pleased the Other" speaks of God without saying the name. Ulysses, a pagan, cannot pronounce it, and the indirect expression is the form that suits him for acknowledging a will greater than his own.
already blind, groping over each one, and for two days I called them, after they were dead. Then, more than grief, fasting had power.
Cantos XXXI to XXXIV: The Ice and Lucifer, Ugolino, recounting how his children died in the tower
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