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direct quotation

noun as in direct discourse

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Above them a solitary lightbulb emits jagged illumination — a direct quotation from Picasso’s “Guernica,” the totemic Modernist depiction of war’s horrors.

While using direct quotations from patients may appear to center their voice, research indicates that quotations and other charting conventions can convey stigma and doubt instead.

There’s no sense of pastiche, no resort to parody; direct quotation is limited to the few moments when Song is performing as Cio-Cio-San.

An earlier version of this article incorrectly attributed a sentence as a direct quotation in the report.

Every single one of them was a direct quotation from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the lionized director of the federal government’s National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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