Example sentences for: directness

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

  • The straightforwardness and smiling directness are sad, temperate, heartfelt, and moving, as well as droll.

  • 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.

  • "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.

  • 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.


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