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Example sentences for: directness

How can you use “directness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

During the war and after it, directness became the fashion, and lyrics lost their sophistication.
When Cole Porter in the song Just One of those Things wants to suggest the painful directness with which Dorothy Parker might have sent a discarded lover on his way, he switches incongruously from plain language to an Elizabethan flourish:
The general drift of the advice was that, with one exception, if you wanted to get what you wanted in France, you must exchange your American warmth and directness for a cool and aloof manner.
But both the prose and the delivery have the appeal of directness and sincerity.
Unfortunately, her review reads like any one of Didion's earlier novels, dense on prose, short on directness.