directness
直接性,直率性,直觉性,率直性
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Definitions
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- : to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- : to regulate the course of; control: History is directed by a small number of great men and women.
- : to administer; manage; supervise: She directs the affairs of the estate.
- : to give authoritative instructions to; command; order or ordain: I directed him to leave the room.
- : to serve as a director in the production or performance of.
- : to guide, tell, or show the way to a place: I directed him to the post office.
- : to point, aim, or send toward a place or object: to direct radio waves around the globe.
- : to channel or focus toward a given result, object, or end: She directed all her energies toward the accomplishment of the work.
- : to address to a person or persons: The secretary directed his remarks to two of the committee members.
- : to address to an intended recipient.
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Examples
This year’s event — which was in-person, parking lot-style shindig — featured a fair amount of Voice of San Diego reporting and some direct jabs at VOSD podcast host Scott Lewis.
So direct indexing is allowing us to give them the Nasdaq minus Facebook, or minus web advertising companies.
It’s time to harness finance and direct it to preserve our planet.
There needed to be some way for the teacher to spend uninterrupted time with virtual students for direct teaching.
Dassault Systèmes had a direct response, as many companies are working very closely with trying to work on solutions to the virus.
He allows the subject to float over to Hitchcock with a calm directness that I admire.
He spoke without notes and inspired confidence in a hurt world because of his directness, honesty, and compassion.
Since then, no president has spoken to the American people with so much candor, directness, and vision.
Mentally, he is full of aggression, thrust, directness, essentially active, not passive.
Their greatest virtue is their uncluttered directness, their fluid mastery of well-researched detail.
Further questions respecting her family, &c., were answered with equal directness and propriety, and with manifest truth.
Her directness had made all possible 'buts' seem ridiculous and futile, and had made the expression of curiosity seem offensive.