directness
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Mr. Hara and Ms. Kobayashi favor discursiveness over directness and display no appetite for concision in anything featured in this box.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Prior to Guardiola's arrival, English football was famed for its intensity, directness and fast attacks, with Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United dominating.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
Plain language, ordinary intimacies—Ebert’s directness makes it possible to feel the moment with nearly the same unbearable immediacy that Penn creates in the film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
The film sets its absurdities aside for a final moment of sincere directness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025
But it is not just his pan-European style that make Mahler such a paradigm for twentieth-century composers; he is also notable for the directness of his musical expression.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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