What is "directness"

Usage examples of "directness".

His black eyes burned in question, pinioning her with their directness.

Not prominent as a debater, he yet spoke with directness and fluency, and was always listened to by the House.

With insular directness he went straight to the point at the first interview, declared his love for Agatha, and proposed an exchange, which amused, but did not offend me, as I knew that such bargains were common in England.

She had fallen to ingenuous surprise, and Mallard again laughed, partly at the simplicity of the question, partly because it pleased him to have brought her to such directness.

In the meantime, what directness and modest sufficiency of utterance distinguishes the dock compared with the fumbling prolixity of the old gentleman on the bench!

At first glance, he appears to be an ordinary, motile protozoan, remarkable chiefly for the speed and directness with which he swims from place to place, engulfing fragments of wood finely chewed by his termite host.

The fishermen laughed aloud, but something in the directness of the instruction whetted their curiosity.

But has he preserved it in its force and simplicity and Dantesque directness?

John Tinker Meadows looked directly into his eyes and Finn Efflander managed to endure that penetrating directness without looking away.

I studied directness of expression by a frequent intercourse with men of business, and examined, with the nicest urgency, the particular characteristics of those of my own profession who were most remarkable for their plain, forcible speaking.

What first fastened my attention was this vague, unfocussed, roving, quasi-introspective vision flashing with panther-like suddenness into a directness that seemed to burn and pierce one like the thrust of a hot stiletto, His face was clean-shaven, save for a mere thumb-mark of black hair directly under the centre of his lower lip.

With insular directness he went straight to the point at the first interview, declared his love for Agatha, and proposed an exchange, which amused, but did not offend me, as I knew that such bargains were common in England.

The effects of drugs, lesions and other manipulations can readily be tested in this type of equipment by a study of their effect on the speed and directness with which the rat can find the hidden shelf.

Animal emotions are far less complex than those of sentients and can often be countered by equal simplicity and directness.

He then gives it you, and you hurriedly leave, reflecting how the republics of the Continent reel anarchically to and fro for lack of a little solid English directness and simplicity.