Sentence examples for Direct speaking from inspiring English sources

After her appointment to the court in 1998, Sotomayor was known for her candid, direct speaking style and for her carefully reasoned decisions.

I didn't take this personally — it was a quirk of his, and I think he was perhaps more open and direct speaking to a machine than he would have been speaking directly to another voice.

Even if bloggers and political analysts were encouraged by Mr. Li's comments — and his down-to-earth, direct speaking style — they noted that his promises were short on specifics.

Recently, however, Medicare has reconsidered rules in a way that could mean that SGDs like mine — ones that do more than provide direct speaking communication — may not be covered.

Using humor, anecdotes and examples of both good and poor candor in leadership, Eberhardt delivers a renewed understanding of how direct speaking causes great velocity and encourages more fun and success at work.

Eartha Kitt is to be commended for her courageous direct speaking to Mrs. Lyndon Johnson.

The style is magical realism, which may put one in mind of a more starkly politicized José Rivera, and the script shifts between dialogue and direct address, spoken by a trio of actors playing townspeople.

Herman Cain is the only candidate with a distinctive economic plan and a direct, folksy speaking manner.

The governor has a direct, pithy speaking style — the sharp rise in property taxes in the past decade, he said, "is not a mystery; it's a mandate" — often leavened by humor.

Similarly, yet another study investigated the comparability of direct and semi-direct speaking test versions (O'Loughlin, 1997).

I was shaping to visit the United States for the first time, and Burton, as it happened, was playing Hamlet on Broadway, with John Gielgud directing and speaking the part of the Ghost.