directness
Example Sentences
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Directness and vulnerability, without pathos, turned out to characterize both movements, which became, in this reading, a point-counterpoint rather than two fragments waiting for a conclusion that never got written.
From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2016
Directness wasn't just a virtue, but a requirement.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2011
Directness and justness of relation are the most important things in painting.
From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh
Directness, vigor, dramatic action, an ending that appeals to the imagination,—most of the good qualities of story-telling are found in this old Scottish ballad.
From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph
Directness once more armed her gaze, and again he was powerless to meet it.
From A Life's Morning by Gissing, George
