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"directness" Definitions
  1. the quality of being simple and clear, so that it is impossible not to understand

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He was meeting directness with directness, carefully spelling out what his show had to say.
This is meant, surely, to provide greater transparency and directness.
Imagine a company where directness is prized above all else.
Occasionally that directness from engineer gets them in trouble. Yeah.
Unnecessary and excessive directness hurts feelings, foments conflict and complicates coexistence.
Still, Ms. Liminowicz is amazed by the family's openness and directness.
She believes her directness does not dilute her warmth and affection.
The speech had the sledgehammer directness of a Trump campaign address.
It is a shatteringly effective piece of simplicity, directness and emotion.
" Leibovich observed, "Like Trump himself, these monikers have a tabloid-ready directness.
And I think women in this country will respond to his directness.
In spite of the directness of its title, "Sharp Objects" unspools slowly.
Like Koyaanisqatsi, GIFs eschew language in favor of the directness of images.
Was my non-directness at fault for how I arrived at today?
It was clear that my intensity and directness was making them uncomfortable.
It does so in the nation's capital with directness, honesty and humor.
The clearheaded directness of animals is a remedy for that self-obsession.
Even to her family, the directness of the portraits came as a surprise.
I've encountered women of equal directness, but I've found them to be rare.
Kobach mentioned the President's "honesty and directness"; he was interrupted by derisive laughter.
Bradford's unfussy directness has drawn comparisons with the awkward informality of David Park.
As Shakespeare's darkest, most nihilistic work, "Lear" benefits from such contemporary idiomatic directness.
Of course, you can't just declare you have a culture of compassionate directness.
Candor, informality, and directness have dissolved not only prohibitions but also defensible standards.
The awe and reverie in his paintings is matched by his pragmatic directness.
Sandberg's speech has gone viral, celebrated for its rawness and directness about her suffering.
SebastiAn says Gainsbourg was put off by his directness, and very possibly his drunkenness.
After Laughter recontextualizes the band's directness with an album's worth of playful sonic nudges.
All of it is marked by the ease of Padgett's writing, his unrivaled directness.
Together, these small pieces suggest, with refreshing directness, the routine behind an artist's calling.
He scrutinized reality with a new directness and tried to record what he saw.
She has brought a directness and simplicity to the movement that has been lacking.
His poetry addressed themes of black solidarity, displacement and anticolonialism with an uncompromising directness.
Rather, there is an important lesson that they convey through their modesty and directness.
"I think their directness and their pace and the attack is dangerous," the defender said.
" She also praised his directness: "I've been in relationships before where I am just confused.
In its directness, It's Hard To Have Hope is meant to be an uncomfortable listen.
The combination of delicacy, directness, and structure attains a visual power not to be missed.
McCabe's book speaks with bracing directness about what was going on and why it matters.
The book's directness about violence, sex, his family, and those in his neighborhood is stunning.
Ms. Walker, a native of Jonesboro, Ga., radiates warmth and a matter-of-fact directness.
How to combine the primal directness of Abstract Expressionism with the diligent mysticism of Hartley?
She spoke rapidly, in long sentences, with an unusual directness for someone of her generation.
At Thrive Global, the behavior-change tech company I founded, we call this compassionate directness.
People who approve of this agenda think his directness was a breath of fresh air.
This directness feels necessary; you can't have a Virgil who doesn't know his way around.
It is this directness, which was present in his work from the beginning, that remains fresh.
JS: There is a raw quality to your work that lends it a directness and intimacy.
She's drawn to popular subjects—film stars or soccer players—and paints them with childlike directness.
Yet no Romantic excess or affect intruded upon the integrity and directness of his music-making.
What is Sudanese and what is Scottish become almost weirdly incidental in Aboulela's consistent, confident directness.
That Mediterranean tilt could be Ms. Merriman's work, but the dish still has a Hamiltonian directness.
As the baby of the zodiac, Aries is known for impulsivity, directness, and a quick temper.
When she wrote about depression and addiction, she had a humaneness and directness that feel honest.
When we flex our compassionate-directness muscle, we'll find that it becomes easier and more natural.
But since it didn't bluntly aim for offense with as much directness, it didn't go as viral.
I liked the directness of True Romance—from the first five minutes the audience is already involved.
Dolph raps in a deep, accented garble that you either enjoy for its directness or can't stand.
He told his story with the practiced directness of someone who has attended many twelve-step meetings.
The Dutch found dealing with the English frustrating, and the English viewed Dutch directness as extremely rude.
Opinion columnist In a time of global emergency, we need calm, directness and, above all, hard facts.
Opinion columnist In a time of global emergency, we need calm, directness and, above all, hard facts.
Indeed, Brennan's voice is softer than his face, and different from the streetwise directness of his brother.
For me, the lean textures, clarity and emotional directness were exactly what made the interpretations so rewarding.
Another lesson from the factory floor: the ability to speak, with directness and humor, across social barriers.
The directness of Mr. La Cognata's approach was at first perplexing, but ultimately, refreshing, Ms. Adams said.
This desire for directness is best exemplified by the obsession with naming that runs through her novels.
There's no BS, and I think, in Washington, where there's so much, he does like the directness.
Others believe Klobuchar is tempering her "Midwestern-nice" public persona with directness so she doesn't get bulldozed.
You need a relationship between directness, quick tempo, but still super light, like you blow a flower.
I was particularly captivated by his directness, the lack of prudishness, and his positive attitude towards sexuality.
Instead, the seasons are determined by the directness of the Sun's rays, which is determined by Earth's tilt.
The latest "Fantastic Beasts" joins a growing list of releases tackling the subject in vary degrees of directness.
"China closed itself off before, so we were backwards," he said with directness and a tinge of sorrow.
As a believer in directness, modern dating rituals bore the shit out of me and seem entirely avoidable.
Gestures, however solemn and sincere, now require an antagonistic directness that translates easily to television or social media.
This performance is an example to all artists of what it means to blend refinement, directness and sensitivity.
"The music business and I met 30 years ago," he observed with characteristic directness in a 2007 podcast.
The stage gave him directness and an audience, the page — and his own intellect — a gift for concision.
He spoke without notes and inspired confidence in a hurt world because of his directness, honesty, and compassion.
Akyol said she loved that song's directness, but that she preferred her own songs to be more enigmatic.
Compassionate directness is about empowering employees to speak up, give feedback, disagree and surface problems in real time.
This approach carried a price: It did not capture the true depth, originality and directness of Michelle Obama.
Some German directness for President Trump, historic talks in Korea and a fight over a baby's fate in Britain.
It's a level of directness, spontaneity, and complete disregard for poise we've never, ever seen in an American President.
But the team remains reliant on the brawn and directness of reigning world player of the year Carli Lloyd.
This will require greater openness and directness from a candidate who has had a tendency to dodge uncomfortable questions.
That directness only heightens the esteem due these soldiers, even if they are reluctant to see themselves as admirable.
Your directness may shock her, but she'll get the point that the buddy system doesn't work for bathroom breaks.
I was amazed by the directness of language, the resistance to metaphor, in each of the poems I heard.
He speaks with DJ Khaledian inspirational heft, except instead of bluster and catchphrases, he proses with directness and realism.
"Google is good at finding bike paths," she says, but it emphasizes brevity and directness over scenery for walkers.
Mr. Nézet-Séguin guided Mr. Bliss in a performance that had the directness and intimacy of a Schubert lied.
Smith got their start in spoken word, and their work has always retained the intimacy and directness of performance.
For Baby Keem, it's storytelling candor — the directness of the sentiment on "Die for My Bitch" often leaps out.
People who have worked with Vadera say her directness is part of her appeal, although her style can be abrasive.
During an agitated episode, backed by erupting tremolos, Mr. Müller-Schott's intense expressivity is balanced by admirable clarity and directness.
It's chilling in its directness: less a character study than the ballad of a coward who has to face consequences.
"There is a directness and economy of storytelling that's always present in his work," Mr. Bradshaw said in an email.
Mohammed bin Salman's supporters praise him as a hard-working visionary who has addressed the kingdom's challenges with extraordinary directness.
"I don't even regret being kind of snarky," she said, before acknowledging that she's paid a price for her directness.
Tessa Thompson's blend of regal self-possession and emotional directness as Adonis's girlfriend, a musician named Bianca, didn't hurt either.
Lincoln combined Jackson's blunt directness with a principled pursuit of justice that produced what was often called Lincoln's highest trait: honesty.
There's a directness of purpose and clarity of intention to Beckinsale's performances that makes the movies work, even when they shouldn't.
Though Kiyoko's directness about being gay, specifically, still feels very fresh, she isn't a compelling pop artist because of her sexuality.
More Songs About Buildings and Food, a concept album about late capitalism, speaks with disarming directness to the current political moment.
Her directness, and her uncanny knack for noticing how characters are reacting to one another on the page, is spot on.
Their declarations of rage, triumph, fear and warning possess a directness and universality that Mr. Indiana likened to the Ten Commandments.
But directness of this kind has a hard time in a market-driven world that favors the convenient slipperiness of ambiguity.
Most N.F.L. statements are bland, but this one was notable for its directness as well as for what it left out.
It's that directness that has earned her particularly fervent fans, many of whom are looking to Ulven for guidance and understanding.
But some crucial connection has been lost, the spontaneity and directness that was, I think, the point of the Atelier experiment.
But it's when we combine directness and compassion that we create a culture in which people can truly thrive at work.
Rather, the space is cannily organized and aggressively frontal, addressing viewers with effects that range from seductive intricacy to slamming directness.
I had been conditioned to believe in the importance of directness and sincerity, but Olivier valued a more disciplined self-presentation.
For many reasons, Ryman's directness is welcome, not the least being that he reminds us that sometimes more is just more.
As in their highly praised 'The Second Machine Age,' McAfee and Brynjolfsson approach this complex topic with directness, insight, and clarity.
But beyond his positions on issues, Green said he embraces Sanders's willingness to disrupt the Washington status quo and his directness.
The mix is relatively light on melody and heavy on skittering percussive maneuvers, with an impressively raw, rough-around-the-edges directness.
It creates a directness and a knowingness that is more sensuous than erotic, even when the subject is a slightly drunken bacchante.
Helle's prose, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken, is at once frank in its directness and elusive in its selective ­economy.
Ultimately, Benger finds the issue all boils down to women's commitment to being unapologetically straightforward — without sugarcoating, softening, or curbing that directness.
In fact, the album comes so tantalizingly close to aesthetic directness that it reveals the totality of the band's commitment to mannerism.
Sure, it's a little on the nose, but we can't help but admire the Jony Ive-esque simplicity and directness of it.
" Like Sookhee, Ms. Kim displayed a quick, goofy wit and unabashed ambition, and said she identified most with her character's "rough directness.
It would be appropriate and reassuring, for example, if the Democratic nominee would own up to her failures with sincerity and directness.
Mihalik's universe is vividly imagined, with exposition given with a refreshing directness (and no reliance on characters spouting awkward as-you-knows).
But her kind of directness has had a hard time in a market-driven world that favors the convenient slipperiness of ambiguity.
The frontman Dan Reynolds sings nimbly, and the band emphasizes restraint, making an arena-size thwap-and-boom with Billy Squier directness.
But where Mastromonaco employs levity and aplomb to charm readers, Tamblyn writes with a gnawing, visceral directness to thrust them into action.
I feel like 's something that I've really tried to take from her or borrow or really influenced me, is a directness.
Her approach is playful but rigorous: there is accuracy in how she marks forms, despite the gooey directness of her paint application.
But on Friday you could see the expressions on the faces of the singers, and their voices came through with bloom and directness.
To mistake musical directness for conceptual strength is to subscribe to a tiresome valorization of overt force, tied to codes of masculine defiance.
Or rather, a yet-to-be released scientific study involving 349 undergrads who were asked to rate tweets with varying levels of directness.
I think you have to deliver that message with kindness and directness and with gratitude for the experience you've just shared with them.
The directness makes sense when you consider it's the lead single from Gunn's new album Eyes on the Lines, his first for Matador.
Thanks to a cast that speaks his language with unusual clarity and directness, it's also quite apparent that he was writing for actors.
With Chris Bell long gone from the band they created, an uncommon freshness and directness comes front and center on this particular night.
On his latest record, the succinctly titled Care, the Chicago artist has embraced directness in a way unlike that of his previous releases.
In "Morning," the first piece, he shaped the lapping melody in the strings, which gently dips and rises, with lovely flow and directness.
Both address the subject of history in a way unusual until recently for American institutions: with a truth-telling, uplift-free prosecutorial directness.
The directness and strictness also earned plaudits from an unlikely source: Trump, who in the past has used California as a punching bag.
As we see at many hard-charging companies, including hypergrowth brands like Away luggage, directness without compassion can work — until suddenly it doesn't.
I want their genuine individuality to manifest and permeate these constructed settings, while simultaneously insisting on their presence with their directness and gaze.
But the structure of the dinner and, more importantly, the unifying presence of the comedian at the roast both risks complicity and allows directness.
"He has a directness about him — there's no bullshit," Philip Heymann, Rosenstein's former professor at Harvard Law School and later his colleague, told me.
All of these features are key to the directness and simplicity that has gotten this game praise in outlets like Polygon, Eurogamer, and Destructoid.
Molly Rankin, the lead singer-songwriter in the Toronto-based quintet Alvvays (pronounced "always"), is often noted for the directness of her flattened soprano.
His poetry acquired a new simplicity, directness, and pathos—several of his masterworks date from these years—and his stature among Polish readers grew.
There's a marvelous, hard-won simplicity and directness in these drawings that evokes the physicality of a wild spiritual journey recalibrated as allegorical satire.
Most plentiful and least familiar are the "Polka Dots" works, which mine the conventions of postwar sculpture with a directness new to Ms. Bove.
"There's definitely a level of directness and rudeness that you only get when people are talking at you from behind a screen," he explains.
With a joke velocity approaching that of "30 Rock," the show, brassy and shrewd, stands out for its rare directness about race and class.
The directness of the painting, and the attention spent on each detail in pre-photography era, makes them unique works of pathos and pathology.
"I Honestly Love You" aches with an embarrassed yearning that is the result of placing pop's directness of expression in punk's fragile electric context.
The Democrats' directness about race reflects both shifting priorities within their coalition and a tactical bet on how to best mobilise and expand their base.
IT'S NOW 21 MILLION BECAUSE INSTEAD OF TRYING TO SELL AN ADDITIONAL ACCOUNT, WE DRIVE THROUGH THE PENETRATION AND THE DIRECTNESS IN THE CORE ACCOUNT.
That the scandal is now so clear, and Trump, Jr.'s complicity so undeniable, is due to the directness with which Goldstone described the situation.
But the movie's ability to express, with directness and humor, the insecurities of intimacy — most remarkably during the couple's first night together — is a delight.
Dub delay pervades "Mono," giving it a sense of spacey elasticity, but it maintains directness by tying things together with a sturdy lead snare pattern.
I confessed that I cringed whenever she called herself "crippled," which she does, because she values directness and has a streak of mischief in her.
"La Koro Sutro" is ambitious and large-scale, lasting nearly 21946 minutes, yet somehow personal and modest, too, with a kind of innately American directness.
Children's books In their brevity and directness, poems and photographs have much in common, Alexander points out in a note in this striking collaborative book.
Only in the last story do we encounter a kind of subtlety that—so beguiling is Szalay's directness—we had not quite realized we lacked.
But the speed and directness with which MoMA — not an institution usually thought of as nimble — has responded to Mr. Trump's ban are especially impressive.
"He has a directness about him — there's no bullshit," Philip Heymann, Rosenstein's former professor at Harvard Law School and later his colleague, told me last December.
Literary giants like Toni Morrison and Lucille Clifton are absent, even though Woods attributes the directness of her songwriting to the way those writers use language.
The power of this message comes from its directness, and how easy it is for all of us to take a piece of it for ourselves. ●
" In a moment of crucial directness, Lucy explains: "I feel that people may not understand that my mother could never say the words I love you.
The newfound directness makes sense as Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are noted Iran hawks who have advocated for regime change in the past.
He is a striking, feline man who rarely breaks eye-contact, implying a level of directness, but at the same time he is delicate and considered.
" The IC also assessed that Russia's 2016 election interference "demonstrated a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations.
He has switched from the outfield to first base, his approach has taken on a new directness, and his future again seems to be trending upward.
Her honesty feels inappropriate for the ears of a preteen; yet it also displays the directness of someone who has long had no use for artifice.
In its intimacy and directness, this beautifully small-scale performance by Tenet and the Sebastians was just as shattering as the Berlin Philharmonic's near-operatic approach.
This board book challenges stereotypes early with rhymes and drawings that address grown-up issues like equal pay, consent and domestic labor with toddler-level directness.
Still, hearing this staple in English gave fresh directness to the drama, especially in this turning-point moment, sung by the baritone Lester Lynch as Enrico.
The tenor Jean-Michel Richer sang with affecting directness and poise, but the music seemed generic, with nothing to make audible the particulars of his suffering.
For many of us, especially those of us who have been raised in families or within cultures that encourage indirectness, compassionate directness may seem really hard.
They have a buoyancy that no double, triple or quadruple bogey can sink, an inner directness made possible by parents who were supportive without being suffocating.
It is addressed with painful directness in the outdoor sculpture "Higher Goals" (1986), in Brooklyn, which raises basketball hoops twenty or thirty feet in the air.
The directness of such work enlarges our perspective, makes us more honest, and perhaps even more willing to encounter our own experience at a new depth.
But I also found myself admiring the directness and confidence with which she expressed her opinions, to anyone who was listening or even just standing nearby.
It has the level of emotional directness we've come to love from her as a performer and that people often need when they're coming out to others.
Clinton's top aides now view Trump as the favorite to win the Republican nomination, and Clinton has started to go after the brash billionaire with more directness.
Now a decade later, the earnest directness of these messages—the spartan facades and the calming symmetry—spark tinges of nostalgia for a seemingly less insane time.
The tune's equilibrium changes with each section, whether through shifting instrumentation or an unexpected new rhythm, but despite the moving parts it never loses its emotional directness.
All the 13 cast members speak with merciful clarity and directness, so you're rarely in doubt as to who's who and why they behave as they do.
We can still judge speakers' patterns of honesty or dishonesty, the directness versus slipperiness of their answers and their recall of detail versus complete lack of memory.
Bowerman advocated for CPG brands to instead combine the scale and structure of their legacy businesses with the speed, directness, and digital chops of digitally native brands.
As the young dancer, Ms. Talcott-Steenstra delivers her lines with a directness that serves the humor in Mr. Ferver's script better than his own fervid underlinings.
His movies, though set nominally in the present, evoke the 1930s in pacing and mood as well as in their combination of mischievous wit and emotional directness.
She kept her hand in, adding a fresh directness of touch, and the results give her a place in the still-emerging saga of postwar American abstraction.
It was directed by James Mangold, who shares script credit with Scott Frank and Michael Green, and has the clarity and directness of a classic genre picture.
"We take many factors into account when determining driving routes, including the size of the road and the directness of the route," the company said in a statement.
Her clarity of purpose and singular, quiet insistence on dealing with such mundane things call to mind the plainspoken directness of the great American poet William Carlos Williams.
It's amazing because it's instantaneous, it's an opportunity to present your opinion, especially in the case of Twitter's very direct manner, but that directness comes at a cost.
In the second half of the 1970s, the concept album was banished to the margins by punk, and by the bands inspired by that style's brevity and directness.
I, for one, will do whatever I can to take us there, including advocating for a directness of language (clear message) and an abstraction of listening (broad application).
The straightforwardness of Garabedian's bright, simple colors and ungainly figures — mythic icons rendered as flawed, flesh-and-blood humans — springs from the directness and honesty of his vision.
The Germans seemed put off by the Mexicans' pace and directness, but they hit the bar with a shot in the second half and nearly grabbed a point.
" That description contradicted the intelligence community's assessment in January of 2017 that said Russia's efforts represented a "significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort.
Much of Azaceta's work has an impactful emotional directness, but this piece in particular knowingly traffics in clichés without pushing them any further or adding texture to them.
To publicize the trial in that way exposes these four women to public scrutiny with greater severity and directness than if they were to remain unidentified to the public.
A few years ago, one pre-school teacher pulled me aside to point out that Alex's directness was, perhaps, a bit "off-putting" to other kids and their parents.
Talking out the frustrations in your relationship with Martian directness and Saturnian maturity will deepen the love you share and reinvigorate the sexy fire between you and your partner.
As beautiful as these photographs are on an abstract plane, there's something about their directness and humility that dissuades you from believing they're operating on a purely formal level.
Pettibon's approach is also reminiscent of the directness of children's art, a quality emphasized in the show by drawings that he made as a kid but only recently inscribed.
The directness and immediacy of this painting is complicated by her two other canvases from the 226s, one of which depicts feathers falling against a backdrop of blue sky.
They're waged by fans who oppose the primal, body-centric thrust of trap and its progenitors' penchant for lyricism that prizes directness and pained realism over metaphors and moralism.
Mark Zuckerberg really impressed me with his manner, his ability to manage the room, his thoughtfulness, his directness, and what seemed to be his earnest desire to 'connect the world'.
"He has a directness about him — there's no bullshit," Philip Heymann, Rosenstein's former professor at Harvard Law School and later his colleague, told me before Trump reportedly let Rosenstein go.
"His conversations with world leaders reflect a respectfulness but a seriousness and directness that the people of this country are already used to coming from President Donald Trump," Pence added.
Ms. Warren is one of the few high-profile leaders in either party to repeatedly challenge Mr. Trump with clarity and directness, portraying him as both dangerous and a charlatan.
Their statements presented the House of Representatives, whose honor they besmirched, with an opportunity to rebuke them with the same directness the two members used in their words of hate.
The sale by the Jesuits stands out for its sheer size and the directness of its relationship to the existence and fortunes of one of the country's top Catholic universities.
On Thursday, his opponents made plenty of substantive, detailed attacks on him, and maybe they worked, but tying them to questions of character risks underscoring his reality-TV-style directness.
"Really what appealed to me about TinyLetter was the directness of it… It was like asking 'Do you want this?' and they would have to decide," Shane said over Skype.
Blur also features the first Blur song which Coxon sings and wrote the lyrics for—"You're So Great"—a shambling alcoholic love ballad which is heart-breaking in its directness.
"Contrary to a lot of descriptions, it's not some hazy, impressionistic blur: it has a wonderful clarity, directness, and simplicity," wrote Pitchfork's Nitsuh Abebe in 2012 about Ocean's music. Indeed.
Trump's fans may pride him on his directness, but it's always of the all-caps sort, predicated on showmanship rather than sincerity, fearmongering rather than comfort, fracture rather than unity.
Instead, I want to point out the incredible force of Ferrante's prose (beautifully translated by Ann Goldstein), which harbors so much perturbing nuance beneath a surface of such apparent directness.
Mr. Martin's directness also put Mr. Varadkar — whose Fine Gael party, although economically conservative, has a large socially liberal wing — in an uncomfortable position with elements of his own base.
DeSantis has still avoided closing the beaches, but on Thursday, his tone and directness increased markedly as he ordered beach gathering to be limited to no more than 10 people.
"She had an astute and intelligent directness as a teacher and conveyor of the art form of dance," Nikolaj Hubbe, artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet, said by email.
Still, there was not a sense of directness or intimacy like that achieved by Tenet in its peregrinations, and Trinity's two quartets, widely separated, lacked a comparable unity and force.
" There is, throughout this book, an almost nineteenth-century simplicity and seriousness, Russian in its directness, a steady circling around the theme of "If he is to live, what now?
Freed from the burden of typical talking points — which are mostly disseminated by television, after all — the teens were armed with facts and statistics and a directness rarely seen in politics.
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But Cash's warmth and directness (she invited Sprague to sit next to her in the interview booth, which "allowed her to be more tactile than I expected") affected the writer deeply.
"Pence clearly understood something in the meeting," one EU official said of talks with Tusk, a former Polish prime minister who said that he spoke with unusual directness in the talks.
You can't do it all on your own I like the directness of the speaker in this poem and I particularly enjoyed how the speaker would ask direct questions of their reader.
" The committee also agreed with the intelligence community that Russian interference in the 2016 election "demonstrated a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations.
At the core of his art is an artlessness akin to conversational speech: time and again, he colors a line by breaking the honeyed tone and letting a folkish directness steal in.
She had clearly sensed that she was fighting a losing battle, and had spoken to the Justices with striking directness about how they could vote against her position—in a limited way.
Hemingway's career got overlayered by money, persona and fame, but sometimes even at this late stage he was able to reconnect with the young man's directness that produced his early best work.
Her first novel, How to Leave a Country, won the PEN/Nelson Algren award in 1984, and since then, Mazza has examined issues surrounding place, sex, gender, and hierarchy with incredible directness.
After a half of side-to-side passing that produced little offense, Berget's directness quickly yielded a goal after he headed down a long pass into Villa's path in the 52nd minute.
Taylor Swift's unfiltered testimony about a former radio host who she said groped her attracted a lot of notice for its directness and for the skill with which she parried his lawyer.
Two interwoven narratives dominate this film — Lil Peep's inexorable rise, owing to the emotional directness and melodic accessibility of his music; and his thin defenses against the demands and consequences of fame.
Frazier's work has always offered an unflinching sense of intimacy and directness; it parses the violent aftermath of late-stage capitalism and racism, even as it highlights the resiliency of affected communities.
"Russia's effort to influence the 2016 US presidential election represented a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations aimed at US elections," the report says.
"Russia's effort to influence the 2016 US presidential election represented a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations aimed at US elections," the report said.
The violence of shooting a gun is, of course, a far cry from the act of shooting a camera, but there's a physical directness to both that shows up in these unflinching photographs.
None of these new songs stirs the emotions with the simple, rewarding directness of hits from other recent family-oriented movies, such as "Remember Me" from Coco or "Tightrope" from The Greatest Showman.
With precocious assurance, the book shows the emotional directness and unabashed musicality that would abide across Neruda's drastic alternations of style, along with other personality traits, as it were, of a long career.
And while the interactivity lacks the directness of a touchscreen, interacting with the surface on a flat surface feels more natural to a veteran laptop user than reaching out and touching the screen.
"Stettner's work continues to attract with an apparently egoless respect for fact and the unforced directness of its transmission," the critic Alan Artner wrote in The Chicago Tribune in 22012, reviewing an exhibition.
I have observed in my research that the relative directness I learned from my mother isn't so much Jewish as East European, in contrast to the relative indirectness more common among German Jews.
What makes Warhol the gold standard is the utter elegance, simplicity and directness of his paintings — his ability to distill a world of information out of a picture through minimal but brilliant intervention.
It had such directness, the lines feeling not as if they were being fed into iambic pentameter because of some strategic decision but because the meter was a natural mode for its speaker.
Mr. McConnell told colleagues at a lunch in mid-2800 that his personal goal was to "shut down all the competitors," according to one senator who was surprised at the majority leader's directness.
Citizens critical of the government's response have been vocal on Chinese social media, challenging the authoritarian regime with unusual directness — and providing a counterpoint to propaganda about heroic first responders addressing the crisis.
On occasion such an arrangement leads to images whose directness displeases the authorities, but a more common outcome has been that proximity to an army helps bolster the narrative preferred by the army.
He raps with a clear-eyed lyricism that any old-school head could appreciate and a wry directness that young skater kids and message-board nerds alike can yell along with as they mosh.
He often prints the images that inspire him on a garment, but that directness is something supernatural, such that he's known for best-selling, graphic-driven streetwear and appreciated for his high fashion fantasias.
His staccato three- and four-beat lines suit the rhyme-mad verbiage and moral directness you should love him for, and it's nice that he adds a common touch and a sense of humor.
With 16 paintings created over 22 years, the show is an introduction to Mr. Lovelace's style, which blends the directness of much outsider art with a cogent political awareness and a penchant for allegory.
You sense Lucia's tenaciousness coursing through Ms. Yende's performance of the mad scene on her latest Sony recording, "Dreams"; even in the character's delirium there is a chilling directness, even defiance, to her singing.
In a Harvard Business School interview, Professor Amy C. Edmondson, a professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard, said directness and candor are key elements to create a healthy and more productive work environment.
She chose to step down from the court to nurse her husband through Alzheimer's disease, but he quickly slipped beyond her reach; she eventually confronted, with similar directness, her own ongoing struggle with dementia.
" But the report also said that Russia's activity in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was a "significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations aimed at US elections.
Blumenthal, a longtime Wall Street Journal reporter, is part of a current wave of narrative nonfiction authors who write for teenagers with such directness and clarity that adult readers, too, may gain a deeper understanding.
The directness of the question is meant to elicit laughs, but the fact is that the whole of the action focuses on Goodwin's budding relationship with a 17-year-old — in other words, a child.
Murphy, she said, had agitated for emotional directness; among other things, he'd zeroed in on a few lines of dialogue about Johnnie Cochran being racially profiled by cops, and turned it into a full scene.
It's amazing to me that a genre which is, by definition, the most popular on earth can frequently express the difficult sentiments it does with such emotional directness, all the while staying within generic confines.
It sets out a slow, electronic R&B groove for a detailed put-down addressed to a boyfriend's ex: "I know you feel he may be coming back to you," Dawn sings with vicious directness.
Though he can deal with their attention behind a screen, he seems overwhelmed with the directness of in-person interactions with paying customers who have a crush on him, without a manager to mediate it.
"First Reformed," with its evident debt to Dreyer and Bresson (most obviously "Diary of a Country Priest"), might seem to follow in this vein, but it works through its influences to achieve an uncanny directness.
The musically glorious performance, with Simon Rattle conducting his Berlin Philharmonic, marked the latest collaboration between Mr. Rattle and Mr. Sellars, but it lacked the emotional directness of their acclaimed "ritualizations" of the Bach Passions.
Mr. Ilchman and Mr. Echols argue that Tintoretto's "Self-Portrait" (1546/1548) — painted barely a decade later — was already a breakthrough in Western art for its assertiveness, directness and the bold handling of the paint.
"I've moved more and more, as an artist, toward directness, because I'm just surrounded by the indirectness and amorphousness and impressionistic character of whatever 21st-century life is," Mr. Krell said by phone, from Los Angeles.
Their message on "Come to the Dance" is simple—don't bother going to a rave if you're just gonna stand there—but their approach is skillful, utilizing total directness to create a sense of uncontainable energy.
And there is inevitably a loss of directness — the "intimacy" Wagner spoke of — when singers perform in a language not native to most in the audience, not to mention not native to many of the singers.
It's this directness that makes "Made in Heaven" so appealing — whereas Bollywood might gloss over these uncomfortable truths, a streaming medium, and its freedoms from a censor board and stifling box office numbers, unshackles the creators.
"This is something that needs both knowledge of Europe and government and has to be done with energy, with directness," HSBC Chairman Douglas Flint told Reuters in the first public comments by a member of the group.
Coldplay responded with some of the most mechanistically devastating songs in their repertoire and remained a nose ahead of the competition thanks to the blunt force pairing of Martin's ever-sharpening directness and his band's matching gravitas.
Some of the more abstract photographs in the series also illustrate this directness: In the above image, Sassen paints her own breast and makes a print directly onto paper, depicting her female form in a self-portrait.
She sings with a heartfelt directness— as in "Colored Woman," a declaration about breaking free of limits and following dreams — and she convinces us that she really likes, and then loves, the awkward and often childlike Huey.
Paired together, the two portraits are immensely striking: Not only are they both unusually active for this kind of portrait, but they give off a palpable sense of intelligence, directness, and — perhaps more than anything else — cool.
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These poets' directness suits their media, at their best disrupting never-ending streams of gossip, selfies and opinion-mongering with stark emotional clearings that aren't entirely unlike the mental stillness and "othering" fostered by poetry's traditional techniques.
These poets' directness suits their media, at their best disrupting never-ending streams of gossip, selfies and opinion-mongering with stark emotional clearings that aren't entirely unlike the mental stillness and "othering" fostered by poetry's traditional techniques.
When she writes, she brings all her academic expertise and rigor to bear on her subject, but the clarity and directness of her language shows non-academic readers exactly why her subject is so important and compelling.
He's instead provided tough talk about Muslims and terrorists, speaking with declarative directness about crushing terrorism in a way some voters might find more satisfying than the cliches uttered by political leaders ever since the September 11 attacks.
As part of the announcement, the ambassador fired off several tweets stating that German companies should "wind down operations (in Iran) immediately" and then followed up defending his directness as being directly compliant with White House talking points.
Katie Roiphe suggests in her article that, with the approach of death, we anticipate the opening of a "new, honest, generous space" in which "there is a directness, an expansiveness" that can be filled with meaningful last words.
Indeed, there is a directness to him, from the coolheaded way he fields questions from voters — listening to them all, to gauge the room, before patiently answering each — to how he decided to run in the first place.
Cartoons often weather criticism for making violence, well, cartoonish, but BoJack uses the medium's leeway to instead show violence — whether physical or verbal — with a stark directness that would seem melodramatic in the hands and mouths of live actors.
Inside there are fewer than a dozen people, and all around you, in the half-light, are some of the boldest paintings of the Italian Renaissance, depicting the life of Christ with a directness you have never seen before.
Her style resists translation, because it is full of colloquial French structures and expletives; she deploys them with abandon and an unerring sense of rhythm, lending the performance a directness that works well in the compact Théâtre de l'Atelier.
So clean-cut does he seem as an actor, with that steady jaw and the disconcerting directness of his gaze, that when anything truly messy or emotionally dishevelled comes along we know for sure that battle will be joined.
Both Hot Chip, which released its debut album in 5123, and Simian Mobile Disco, whose debut album arrived in 2007, have addressed that question from multiple angles, juggling analog nostalgia and digital proficiency, self-conscious directness and ironic postures.
Mr. Trump's crude directness and his unrivaled skill in manipulating the news media so strongly resemble the political style of the former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi that I sometimes wonder whether Mr. Berlusconi is secretly coaching him from the sidelines.
His 19953 three-disc album of Erik Satie's early piano works drew attention to this overlooked music, which he performed with elegant restraint and directness, bravely observing the very slow tempo indications in many of these scores to haunting effect.
He is far more subtle than Mr. Forsyth and much less gimmicky than Mr. Deighton, and if he can't quite match Mr. le Carré's doomy intensity, he has the compensating virtues of (relatively speaking) greater directness and solid good sense.
The book is full of Clinton focusing blame elsewhere, but in raw terms -- and with more directness than at any point since Election Day -- the former Democratic nominee admits that she made catastrophic mistakes during the campaign that led to her loss.
Ask him about any political issue—visa requirements, or Denmark's controversial 24-year rule for migrant marriages, for example—and he will lean across the table and explain his stance with a clarity and directness that is pretty rare in most politicians.
The fascination with Chau's killing is multifaceted, but perhaps it is at least partly driven by the impossible fantasy of a world where solutions arrive with the directness of an arrow's flight—and where justice and the law are one and the same.
A White House official told CNN that Cuomo's pressers have become mandatory viewing in the West Wing, with the New York governor's command and directness driving Trump's own desire to use the briefing room every day to drive coverage of the coronavirus.
I have been puzzling and suffering through bad news after bad news, and, as a Black American artist, one central question keeps coming into my mind: is abstraction or directness more likely to afford us the understanding we need to move forward?
In terms of dramatic focus and emotional directness, this engrossing stage translation of a novel invites comparisons to the work of Simon McBurney, the English director whose emotionally raw production of Stefan Zweig's "Beware of Pity" is also in repertory at the Schaubühne.
It was a revelation to hear James Agee's text — evoking an entranced young boy during a cozily magical evening with his family on the back porch and wet grass of his Knoxville home — rendered by Ms. O'Hara with disarming directness and clarity.
Last weekend's big Liberty and Justice dinner here — and the crossfire before and after the premier Democratic event — bore the unmistakable feel of a turning point in the race: Bernie Sanders started taking on Elizabeth Warren with directness he'd avoided until now.
The show's capstones are  small-scale prints made over the course of the artist's career, which comprise  the portfolio, Sternberg: A Life in Woodcuts (1991), whose directness and handcrafted autobiographical details are fitting testimonies to his ethic of giving patient witness to the world.
"When you left I closed the door, closed my eyes, sat on the floor," she sings in "Black And White", with a directness that sits almost jarringly alongside "Grand Hotel" and its tales of old devils making "their blood pacts in the ancient mists".
"I believe the government spied on the Trump campaign," said Mr. Barr in a town where semantic directness is simply not practiced among the political pharisees and their pilot fish in the media who seek to preserve a certain order by obfuscating true intent.
Such punchy directness makes her a heroine for our times, as well as for hers, and nowhere more withering than when, freshly hitched to Masham, in a marriage of convenience, she satisfies him with one hand—briskly and distractedly, while talking of more important things.
He is allergic to willful obscurity and "our little literary games," as he declared in one "Howl"-referencing populist manifesto that he titled, with characteristic directness, "Populist Manifesto No. 1": We have seen the best minds of our generationdestroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
Not unlike 21 Savage, whose song "No Heart" Wopo freestyled over to viral acclaim, or Detroit's Tee Grizzley, Wopo is part of a wave of new stylists who go for blunt force lyrical directness and embrace more stripped-down sounds than the maximalists of rap radio.
We have an idea that when someone is dying, a new, honest, generous space opens up; that in the harrowing awfulness of dying there is a directness, an expansiveness, a loosening of inhibitions, the potential for things to be said that could not be said before.
"Ugly Cherries" was recorded during Mx. Bruce's senior year at Bard, with Mx. Hopkins, who had graduated the year before, holed up and lonely in an apartment in nearby Hudson, N.Y. Though in parts murky and soulful, "Ugly Cherries" can also be exciting in its unbridled directness.
"Russian efforts to influence the 2016 US presidential election represent the most recent expression of Moscow's longstanding desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order, but these activities demonstrated a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations," the report continued.
France forward Kylian Mbappe, who had ripped apart Argentina in the previous round with his directness and pace, wasted a good opportunity to open the scoring in the 15th minute when Olivier Giroud headed across the box to him but the 19-year-old's looping header was off-target.
Shuffling along on the prompting of Michael's conflicted voice-over, the movie watches as he films a documentary about queer youth, suffers panic attacks, alienates his partner (Zachary Quinto, whose directness and intensity are welcome counterpoints to the general insipidness) and eventually finds God and a fiancée (Emma Roberts).
As the book comes to an end, we see the Rodgers and Hammerstein legacy truly begin to take form — works of theater that not only spoke with searing directness to the times in which they were written, but that have a continual, constantly renewing connection to our hearts and spirits.
The power of Manzoni's art comes not simply from his dedication to essences, but also from the founts of associations that his unvarnished directness allows to percolate, and from the paradoxes that his efforts embody: his work can be viewed as slight and Herculean, tragic and buoyant, mystical and materialist, minimal and baroque.
I was touched by this sentiment in "Nanette," and I wondered, as I watched, how Gadsby would use that kind of directness to strengthen the stories she told, since she is, essentially, a storyteller—someone who uses characters and situations to illustrate her ethos and thus, perhaps, connect more deeply with the audience.
Photography is all about direction: Much of what we witness is colored by the direction in which the photographer has chosen to point their camera—shots from high above or peering from the ground up; angled captures that pulse with fire; or, say, the vivid and vulnerable directness reminiscent of Carrie Mae Weems portraits.
This may sound like a slippery, even specious distinction, but I think it's essential to piecing together the blunt authority of the tape paintings — objects made from unapologetically non-art materials (a practice she has continued with experiments in steel, slate, Rust-Oleum, stone, and cement-block walls, among other supports and mediums) with plainspoken directness.
It now appears that many of the undeclared meetings that have subsequently come to light between Mr Trump's inner circle of advisers—Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner and Donald Trump junior—and an assortment of Russians with links of various directness to the Kremlin, most notably Sergey Kislyak, the ubiquitous and gregarious former Washington ambassador, were aimed at thawing relations.
Which is why it's so hard to do what you should be able to in a game cruelly dubbed "GTA with horses" by just about everyone who never played it: Go on a post-save rampage and wipe out as many civilians as you can before the law steps in with no-questions-asked directness and the safety off.
Bernie SandersBernie SandersTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Top aide Jeff Weaver lays out Sanders's path to victory MORE (I-Vt.) says that Trump is a "pathological liar," he is speaking with his usual directness to say something that virtually every Republican or Democrat privately believes.
The new album's earthy quiet blesses "True Love Waits" with its most breathless recorded incarnation—a skeletal, deconstructed piano chord fleshed out by bass notes and a splatter of countermelody—and in return, the threadbare directness of the lyric sharpens A Moon Shaped Pool's stark meditations on love to a point, lifting it to the pantheon of great Radiohead closers.
In 2017, the U.S. intelligence community issued such an assertion in no uncertain terms: Russian efforts to influence the 2016 US presidential election represent the most recent expression of Moscow's longstanding desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order, but these activities demonstrated a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations.
In Screaming Swifts: Paintings and a Construction, at the Mitchell Algus Gallery (September 23 – October 23, 2016), his first one-person exhibition in New York, Kaiser employs a straightforward approach, a muted palette of pale magenta, black, and white, and an efficient directness of paint application, fitting a symmetrical form made of sharp-edged planes and triangles tightly within the painting's physical borders.
That directness hasn't always been central to his work, but it's reflective of the slightly more exalted position he holds in pop right now, a level of success where he's guesting on Ariana Grande and Maroon 5 songs (which come as slightly less of a shock than when he teamed up with the early adopter Miley Cyrus a few years ago).
Marsden Hartley's admiration for the folk paintings he encountered in the American Southwest comes across in portraits that pay homage to their style, but the unvarnished directness and formal flatness of these late-career works also reflect artists he may not have been aware of, such as Horace Pippin and the immigrant John Kane, born in Scotland to Irish parents.
Even when the band wasn't sampling Slayer on "She Watch Channel Zero," collaborating with Living Colour for "Funny Vibe," and re-recording "Bring the Noise" with Anthrax, Terminator X's turntablism often served as a surrogate lead guitar, and Chuck D's booming delivery eschewed the jazzy inflections of Rakim and KRS-One in favor of a cadence that had the directness of a hardcore barker.
And indeed the directness and clarity of the law are a pleasant surprise: While data brokers offer many benefits, there are also risks associated with the widespread aggregation and sale of data about consumers, including risks related to consumers' ability to know and control information held and sold about them and risks arising from the unauthorized or harmful acquisition and use of consumer information.
I don't know if it was the directness and certitude of his statement that rattled me—he was always clinical, always rational, always dry—or that his death was no longer just an idea—it was happening, it was real—or if, during the week I'd spent by his side, we had bonded without my knowledge or consent and, all of a sudden, I loved him.

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