No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.
jacques barzunSome attitudes may be named... which are central in effective intellectual ways of dealing with subject matter. Among the most important are directness, open-mindedness, single-mindedness (or whole-heartedness), and responsibility.
What is needed is a noticeable unnoticeable style,... a directness of speech that seems to one judging easily imitable, to one trying it nothing less so.
j. v. cunningham