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
The researchers observed that cortical activity tracks energy changes related to direct speech, despite the strong interference of the 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
Possibly we once prided ourselves on our honesty, and felt happy in our upright character, plain-dealing, and direct speech; but to our dismay we have been betrayed into double-dealing, equivocation, evasive or even fraudulent conduct.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods
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