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, 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, however evaded, would be, fully, for her; nothing in fact would ever have been for her so direct as the evasion.
From The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 by James, Henry
Directness was always one of Burgess’s leading qualities.
From Mike by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
