Sentence examples for Direct speech from inspiring English sources
noun
The writing of speech, using the exact words of the speaker, usually between quotation marks
Direct speech is abhorred.
Direct speech makes dirty deeds too clear.
Direct speech has a narrative function, but "Fatal North" has too much of it: putting words into people's mouths is a dangerous game, and it needs to be played artfully.
Direct Speech "I want to have sex with you".
This directional-power-ratio measure was shown to properly estimate the ratio between the direct speech and the reverberation amount, yielding a well-founded signal-based quality measure and a blind DRR estimator.
(An astonishing forty-five per cent of the poem is direct speech).
There are no paragraph breaks, and there is no conventional direct speech.
The direct speech she relates from parents of victims seems parodic in how it exculpates her.
Maskell gives us, in direct speech, whole conversations that took place 50 years earlier.
Long narratives – flashbacks – are conveyed in pages of direct speech, uttered by this or that character.
Hurried editing shows in erratic chronology, direct speech whose sources are unclear and easily avoidable errors.
