direct speech
Britishnoun
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Broadcaster Eamonn Holmes said: "He made direct speech entertaining. With that he was ahead of his time. I'm just sorry he hasn't had more time."
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025
This remained true even when participants were told to direct their attention toward a silent film and ignore the story, suggesting that top-down attention isn't required to mentally separate direct speech and its echo.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024
“It was the toughest, coldest, and most direct speech I had ever heard John Kennedy give publicly,” O’Donnell said.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2015
And in The New Yorker, Kenneth Goldsmith referred to its participants as having “produced a body of distinctive literature marked by direct speech, expressions of aching desire, and wide-eyed sincerity.”
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2014
Only in September, when at Lord Wimborne's instance he interviewed Lord Kitchener, did he have the opportunity of raising the matter by direct speech.
From John Redmond's Last Years by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
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