Directness

Examples

• Among the most important are directness, open-mindedness, single-mindedness (or whole-heartedness), and responsibility. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The directness and endurance of the influence of this trained veteran on his gifted son a hundred fine incidents attest. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The facts which are cited in support of the alleged pure egoism of children really show the intensity and directness with which they go to their mark. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She decided that directness would be best. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The difference between them is largely one of time-span, influencing the directness of the connection of means and ends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Confidence is a good name for what is intended by the term directness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I'm not going to have any of your horrid New England directness, cousin, said St. Clare, gayly. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Directness was his distinctive and immortalizing quality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You are as beautiful as Helen, replied Maurice, rather taken aback at the directness of this question. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• So far as the word is concerned, much that was said under the head of directness is applicable. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Hence he took the course which one would expect of Edison's common sense and directness of action. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There is a directness of aim in virtue which gives an insight into vice. Plato. The Republic.
• It is easier to indicate what is meant by directness through negative terms than in positive ones. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But he had spoken now, and had spoken with unmistakable directness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This directness of vision fertilizes thought. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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