Sentence examples for Direct addresses from inspiring English sources

Direct addresses to the audience explain some background; the time scheme is confusing; cricket is explained; we are even given the definition of a sentence.

Like a variety show, it had a curtain, direct addresses to the audience, and guest stars.

The movie's flaming artifices get to some cold truths, beginning with the one-man chorus Dolemedes's direct addresses to the audience.

In a series of flashbacks, Gordon sketches in the background to Pearl's action, but her direct addresses to the reader are intrusive and turn Pearl from a character into an object lesson.

Although the play was revolutionary in its fluid movement through time and its direct addresses to the audience, Wilder surely never meant it to be cute in its self-consciousness.

Eka Kurniawan's first novel Beauty Is a Wound has already been compared to García Márquez and Rushdie – it is long, it recounts the history of an "exotic" country and it is studded with supernatural happenings, so never mind that Kurniawan is bawdy where García Márquez is plangent, or that his occasional direct addresses to the reader owe more to oral storytelling than to postmodernism.

It's a very direct address.

Ruhl is a fan of direct address.

It's a theatre of direct address.

His last poems showed an increasingly direct address, extensively describing a landscape or recounting an experience.

Recently, the Times' Charles Isherwood lamented the overuse of direct address in plays (including "Chad Deity").