The quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech.
Trueness of course toward a goal.
1 Growing suddenly serious, she regarded him with a look of unsettling directness .
2 The simple directness of the spoken word has been allowed to stand.
3 The Princess talked on in a fashion of perfect simplicity and directness .
4 The corporal raised his head and replied with the same peasant-like directness :
5 There was a straight-forward directness in the gaze of his blue eyes.
6 The officer replied with a directness that rose superior to personal curiosity.
7 The directness of the answer, given in a shy voice, astonished him.
8 But the style has the directness and sincerity of all his writings.
9 And the return of the wanderer was set forth with graphic directness .
10 With all its faults the style has the merits of masculine directness .
11 No sincerity or directness anywhere in him, and very little real courage.
12 The coarse bluntness and directness of the man did not offend her.
13 Poor Mrs. Lee was quite disconcerted by the directness of the attack.
14 But the chief peculiarity of his speech was its directness and appositeness.
15 Alton laughed, and Miss Deringham found something pleasant in his naive directness .
16 Never had men more simplicity of purpose, more directness in its execution.
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Directness в диалектах
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