directness
Americannoun
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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 turned their eyes to the external world, and taught them to see even themselves from without.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.
Directness is also a protection against that literature of egotism which is the excess into which subjective poetry easily falls.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.
Directness was natural to Estelle and both her father and her friend, Mr. Churchouse, had fostered it.
From The Spinners by Phillpotts, Eden
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