directness

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Compared with, say, the War on Drugs, a contemporaneous band that has taken some shared influences to a much larger audience, Mr. Morby favors directness and specificity, and works on a more modest scale.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Do these trends point to a regression in tactics by Premier League teams, who now favour physicality and directness over technical prowess?

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

It was wrapped in a directness that he had spent years avoiding.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

The film sets its absurdities aside for a final moment of sincere directness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

The directness of his questions and his subsequent elaborations threw her.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead