directing

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He’s graduating into multiplexes having spent his adolescence writing, directing, editing, composing and market-testing what people want to watch.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Does our society still have a coherent understanding of the human person capable of directing technological power toward genuinely human ends?

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

"There was no version of this where I wasn't the one directing that I would personally be open to," he said.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

"The restriction on education beyond grade six is a separate issue," he said, directing us to the ministry of education who would "hopefully… provide a satisfactory response".

From BBC • May 24, 2026

One read Welles’s lines, because Orson was at a theatre several blocks away directing rehearsals for the latest Mercury play, Danton’s Death.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow