directness

How To Use directness In A Sentence

• Older and newly arrived Vietnamese Americans often display indirectness and extreme politeness in dealing with others.
• Their e-mails were 'tortured haikus of indirectness', so he told me. Relationships Of Mutual Mistrust
• Kellen blushed, and assented, wondering if he'd ever really get the hang of the indirectness of Elven manners. Tran Siberian
• He presents his case with refreshing clarity and directness.
• His love of simplicity and directness extends beyond tech. Times, Sunday Times
• He had an innate egalitarianism, a plain-spoken American way of talking, a directness, and a lack of airs.
• But he and his advisers rightly think his best sales point is his image as an antipolitical politician, a country doctor turned governor who boasts of "my directness and my unwillingness to bend" as he bluntly diagnoses all the ills of American life. There's A Chill In The Air
• The MIT students' postshow demonstration in the lobby of the two toy-plane-like robots had all the charm and directness that the stage presentation lacked. Mark Morris And His Joy of Text
• Now I'm starting to appreciate the interplay of musical texture and lyrical directness.
• These are shown in the boldness of the batik colors and the directness of the motifs.