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
Smith, poet laureate of the United States and a Pulitzer Prize winner, shows tremendous range in these rich, humane poems as she shifts from lyricism to direct speech, from meditative passages to wry humor.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2018
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
The wit of the man—his direct speech, and all of his beautiful indifference for the good opinion of those whom others follow after and lie in wait for—was sublime.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert
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