"Directness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... brutal directness of his look her own eyes slowly sank. A very faint tinge of colour crept over her pallor, but she made ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It ...
— Pearls of Thought • Maturin M. Ballou
... pleased Mrs. Tretherick. She did not stop to consider how much an imperfect knowledge of English added to his curt directness and sincerity. But she said, "Don't tell anybody you have seen me," and took out ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte
... Hawthorne felt for the sufferers, and the memorial that he submitted to our government on their account has a dignity, a clearness and cogency of statement, worthy of Blackstone or Marshall. It is in marked contrast to the evasive reply of Secretary Cass, both for its fine English and for the directness of its logic. It is published at length in Julian Hawthorne's biography of his father, and is unique for the insight which it affords as to Hawthorne's mental ability in this direction. We may infer from it that if he had ...
— The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne • Frank Preston Stearns
... beyond the seas had not made a settlement, but had given a handsome present and was apparently to be looked to, across the water, for other favours. People are simplified alike by great contentments and great yearnings, and, whether or no it was Gravener's directness that begot my own, I seem to recall that in some turn taken by our talk he almost imposed it on me as an act of decorum to ask if Miss Anvoy had also by chance expectations from her aunt. My enquiry drew out that Lady Coxon, ...
— The Coxon Fund • Henry James
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