Use "directness" in a sentence

1. They all chuckled at her sudden directness and posture of chastening her friend

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2. “What's the gist of the citation?” the Elf asked, maintaining an air of directness without any frustration in her voice

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3. Still, Rosemary was stung by the directness of it

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4. When she did speak, it was with her usual directness

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5. As he stepped outside, he was not prepared for the directness of the morning sun, square in the face

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6. There was something about Piers’ naivety and honest directness that made him seem vulnerable

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7. This time Mrs Whitaker lacked the directness she had shown thus far

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8. Friends, all of us, we were moved by the directness and beauty of this mass of St

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9. In return Tamar appreciated the directness of the young man, there was something refreshing about the young general’s attitude

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10. ” Jennifer said with directness

11. ” Billy said with complete directness, handing Conner to Brent

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12. directness but I really have to ask you an important question

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13. I was shocked at the bird’s directness

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14. “W-well,” the maître d’ stuttered as if he were surprised by the lawman’s directness and willingness to interrupt the routine and protocol of the dining room, “I’m not sure if Mrs

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15. one thing I like about Aries is their directness

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16. offered, completely unashamed by her directness

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17. directness and they shifted about in place

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18. Avery was rather taken aback at the directness of the question but she quickly

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19. The directness of the question unsettled Camilla and she shuffled her feet, crossing and uncrossing her ankles

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20. Somewhere in his mind, he imagined being the Riverraider of Greenland, a wise stranger accepted into a new community, standing up to its enemies—although, he remembered with a directness he hadn't expected, standing up to his own community's enemy was what had gotten him transported across the sea

21. “Please forgive my directness

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22. Kempis; in form heaimed at conciseness and directness rather than at artisticperfection

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23. His entire teaching is a teaching of detachment from life, a detachment from all feeling, a detachment from all action, all directness

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24. We have abstracted our own hate, our own scorn, our own disrespect, our own revulsion, our own disgust, and our own fear: in so many ways; it would take ten thousand books to show how we abstractively express our revulsion… our hate, and on how many abstract levels, in how many abstract ways we do it by distancing ourselves from all directness and direct truth and direct experience,

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25. her directness, but he was not to be deterred

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26. Truth is so obvious: that civilized people are blind to its directness

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27. The farther any directness goes the stronger it becomes

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28. The path of directness, Honesty and Courage is good

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29. But they are a false directness that only separates and kills and destroys! They are a dead directness

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30. They are an avoidance, they are an artificial directness

31. We should be doing what they are doing: but not in the way dead tools are direct by separating: but in the way LIFE is direct by connecting: using our Honesty, Courage, Love and the Sense of Pure Wonder to radiate our living Directness out to all living things and touch living creatures

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32. The path of Directness, Honesty, Courage, Wonder, Love, Giving, Connecting, Joining, Touching: makes you happy

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33. The path of directness is constructive

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34. Then you will be on the path of directness

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35. Directness destroys and kills evil, evil must be killed and destroyed:

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36. YOU CANNOT CHOOSE between GOOD and evil, you CANNOT CHOOSE between lies and the TRUTH: there is only ONE PATH: and that is the Path of DIRECTNESS, HONESTY AND COURAGE

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37. Directness, honesty, and candor always constitute the most powerful of professional

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38. Denaleal’s gaze came back to mine with directness as he finalized his previous statement by saying, “They always have a way of completing their creators tasks despite the good intent of others along the way

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39. He laid a hand on my shoulder and with a directness that signaled he already knew of what it was within my mind to do he said, “I will do it

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40. Her directness was astounding, but she spoke the truth

41. This strong light and shade, by eliminating to a large extent the half tones, helps to preserve in highly complete work a simplicity and directness of statement that is very powerful

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42. Coming at a time when the realistic and plain air movements were destroying simple directness, his work was of great value, bringing back, as it did with its insistence on large, simple masses, a sense of frank design

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43. and it is not advisable to try and combine too many different points of view as, in the confusion of ideas, directness of expression is lost

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44. “When we met in person I was immediately won over by his charm, sense of humor, and directness,” Thatcher will later recall

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45. With the sun for his only guide, or aided by such blind marks as are only known to the sagacity of a native, he held his way along the barrens of pine, through occasional little fertile vales, across brooks and rivulets, and over undulating hills, with the accuracy of instinct, and nearly with the directness of a bird

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46. He was so nervous under Hunter's scrutiny that his hand trembled to such an extent that it took him about twice as long as it should have done, and Hunter told him so with brutal directness

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47. The thought that Colin would answer whatever questions they asked with his usual directness was enough to give her heart palpitations

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48. "Then why are you here?" asked Bigwig, with his usual directness

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49. They talked with simplicity and directness

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50. conversation, Levin was all the time admiring her— her beauty, her intelligence, her culture, and at the same time her directness and genuine depth of feeling

51. clearly, with the directness of the savage and the child, undeterred by conscience when

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52. Though he was a stranger, occupying another's pulpit, he had felt this to be his duty, and took for his text the words from St Luke: "Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee!" The young man much resented this directness of attack, and in the war of words which followed when they met he did not scruple publicly to insult Mr Clare, without respect for his gray hairs

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53. Next day the weather was bad, but she trudged on, the honesty, directness, and impartiality of elemental enmity disconcerting her but little

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54. Directness was another thing she’d been practicing with Dr

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55. (It was impossible now to doubt the directness of Dorothea's confession

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56. Casaubon, and become wise and strong in his strength and wisdom, than to conceive with that distinctness which is no longer reflection but feeling—an idea wrought back to the directness of sense, like the solidity of objects—that he had an equivalent centre of self, whence the lights and shadows must always fall with a certain difference

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57. "Yes," said Dorothea, with characteristic directness, "Sir James has been telling me that he is in hope of seeing a great change made soon in your management of the estate—that you are thinking of having the farms valued, and repairs made, and the cottages improved, so that Tipton may look quite another place

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58. But he had spoken now, and had spoken with unmistakable directness

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59. Bulstrode that what had happened must be some kind of misfortune, and instead of being able to say with her native directness, "What is it that you have in your mind?" she found herself anxious to get away before she had heard anything

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60. There was a directness about this guy I liked

61. But the chief peculiarity of his speech was its directness and appositeness

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62. The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness of a point of steel

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63. There was an unceremonious directness, a searching, decided steadfastness in his gaze now, which told that intention, and not diffidence, had hitherto kept it averted from the stranger

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64. Even before our ' sin ' I explained the whole position to Makar Ivanovitch with extraordinary directness

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65. I am ready to admit now, that a great deal need not have been explained at all, especially with such directness; to say nothing of humanity it would have been far more polite, but

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66. And so in spite of the friendliness and directness of their relations, Konstantin felt an awkwardness in leaving him alone

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67. When he was asked to explain how it was apparent now at this moment, the old doctor, with simple-hearted directness, pointed out that the prisoner on entering the court had “an extraordinary air, remarkable in the circumstances”; that he had “marched in like a soldier, looking straight before him, though it would have been more natural for him to look to the left where, among the public, the ladies were sitting, seeing that he was a great admirer of the fair sex and must be thinking much of what the ladies are saying of him now,” the old man concluded in his peculiar language

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68. As soon as these savages entered the hall they began asking where the buffet was, as though they had been put up to it beforehand, and learning that there was no buffet they began swearing with brutal directness, and an unprecedented insolence; some of them, it is true, were drunk when they came

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69. The simple directness of barbaric virtues, the healthy passion and aggressiveness of its vices make the process of atavism easy to a nature that has risen above the mere materialism of civilization

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70. The translation has been authorized by Count Tolstoy, who has specially commended it for its accuracy, simplicity, and directness

71. "No other modern book approaches 'Sevastopol' in the completeness and directness with which it unveils the realities of war

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72. Blacklock,” she said, realizing that she had blundered, “don’t take my directness the wrong way

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