directness

"Your directness is bracing," CBI director Gale Bertram tells him, meaning "You're a complete waste of plasma and I wish you were landfill."

Tonight's TV highlights Rebecca Nicholson 2010

I think it sums up my personality; behind my directness is complexity.

zornhau: Five Word Meme... zornhau 2010

But it had the Chamberlain directness and clarity.

The Present Challenge to British Imperialism 1936

They consist in directness, in easily stirred susceptibility, in inflexible and lively spirits: they point to a superfluity of unexhausted gifts; and over the whole there extends a never-failing charm, a certain glamour of nobility.

Nobel Prize in Literature 1924 - Presentation 1924

Her eyes now in their directness were the ice blue of Bill's, enchanting, and I felt reality slip a notch.

The Fat Lady Sang 2009

Yes, I said it has to, and you get that kind of directness which is ...

CNN Transcript May 10, 2003 2003

Her directness was a kind of disturbing truth serum, which quickly got to the core of the matter at hand.

Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986

He recalled the directness of her speech in their first conversation and smiled at the naïveté of her estimate of himself.

A Mating in the Wilds Ottwell Binns

He was content with chronological order for his guide; his directness is the directness of the Chronicle History.

The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne

Here, as in the first picture, the eyes looked forth with a curious, proud directness; but beneath the directness was a glint of humor, a flash of daring absent in the other face; the mouth smiled, seeming to anticipate life's secrets, the ungloved hand held the gun with a touch peculiarly caressing, peculiarly firm.

Max Katherine Cecil Thurston 1893