directness

• “I think it sums up my personality; behind my directness is complexity.”

  zornhau: Five Word Meme...

• “Your directness is bracing," CBI director Gale Bertram tells him, meaning "You're a complete waste of plasma and I wish you were landfill.”

  The Guardian: Tonight's TV highlights

• “But it had the Chamberlain directness and clarity.”

  The Present Challenge to British Imperialism

• “They consist in directness, in easily stirred susceptibility, in inflexible and lively spirits: they point to a superfluity of unexhausted gifts; and over the whole there extends a never-failing charm, a certain glamour of nobility.”

  Nobel Prize in Literature 1924 - Presentation

• “Her eyes now in their directness were the ice blue of Bill's, enchanting, and I felt reality slip a notch.”

  Fictionaut: The Fat Lady Sang

• “Yes, I said it has to, and you get that kind of directness which is ...”

  CNN Transcript May 10, 2003

• “Her directness was a kind of disturbing truth serum, which quickly got to the core of the matter at hand.”

  Simon & Schuster: Portrait of An Artist

• “He recalled the directness of her speech in their first conversation and smiled at the naïveté of her estimate of himself.”

  A Mating in the Wilds

• “He was content with chronological order for his guide; his directness is the directness of the Chronicle History.”

  The Growth of English Drama

• “Here, as in the first picture, the eyes looked forth with a curious, proud directness; but beneath the directness was a glint of humor, a flash of daring absent in the other face; the mouth smiled, seeming to anticipate life's secrets, the ungloved hand held the gun with a touch peculiarly caressing, peculiarly firm.”

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