Directness Quotes
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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 barzun— IV (Bernard Shaw in Twilight (1943))
While 9 Songs is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.
stephanie zacharek— Review of 9 Songs (2005)
Some 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.
john dewey— The Traits of Individual Method
Some 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.
— John Dewey (1916) Democracy and Education. Section 13: The Traits of Individual Method
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— The Problem of Style, Fawcett, New York 1966
