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Example sentences for: directness

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During the war and after it, directness became the fashion, and lyrics lost their sophistication.
Sincerity and directness 25.
"We are what we are, and there is nothing much to be done about that" doesn't make for a very interesting aesthetic, and Eastwood's dry, dodgy movies (Schickel touts "their directness of address, their plainspoken psychological realism") bear the stamp of this shrunken worldview.
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:
In World War II, the need for a general-purpose vehicle was satisfied with the development of a means of transportation referred to by the government with astonishing directness and candor as a general-purpose vehicle . The army, quick to abbreviate everything, began to refer to the vehicle as a g.p.