The phrase "as a direct connection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a straightforward or unmediated link between two entities or concepts.
Example: "The new software establishes a direct connection between the user and the database, enhancing data retrieval speed."
Alternatives: "as a straightforward link" or "as an unmediated connection".
An icon is not a story to make you think of God so much as a direct connection to God: it is not an instrument of worship, it is part of what is worshipped.
It's a model that may appeal to status seekers, but the romance is lost on younger consumers who value what they see as a direct connection to the dirt in which grapevines are planted, and to the people who tend those vines.
They found that indirectly connected to the financial system through social network is as beneficial as a direct connection.
SugarSync also announced an update Blackberry app with improvements to the interface as well as a direct connection to the Blacklberry email app.
As a direct connection between Tyrol and Milan, the Grisons and in particular the Val Müstair became strategically important to the Habsburgs.
Finger movements appear to be (almost) exclusively controlled by cortical areas in the contralateral hemisphere if control is defined as a direct connection to the spinal cord (Brinkman and Kuypers 1973; Soteropoulos et al. 2011).
This would reduce above-ground pedestrian congestion in Herald Square and along 32nd and 33rd Streets as well as provide a direct connection for the many people who transfer between these two transportation hubs.
Note that does not necessarily have to be a wired interface, as long as it gives a direct connection to the Internet, which is then routed to the core network of the operator.
The discussion gets more personal as readers with a direct connection to the school or to the people involved weigh in.
Frauke Petry, its leader, joined a chorus of voices attacking Merkel, writing on her Facebook page: "Is Germany now open and colourful enough for you, following the wave of crimes and sexual attacks, Frau Merkel?" A short time later she went so far as to made a direct connection between the events in Cologne and the mass rapes of German women by Red Army soldiers in the spring of 1945.
"The idea of the designer as entrepreneur is a direct connection to the Bauhaus.
