But there are moments when the hyperbolic prominence of the work is such that it amounts to a kind of personal IPO, a direct declaration to the market: buy me.
Instead, he demanded "direct declaration of accountability by the [current] government before the people, the Majlis and the Judiciary".[21].[21]
Hence, in an implicit challenge to Mr Starr, the direct-eyed declaration: "I say to you now that at no time did I ask anyone to lie, to hide or destroy evidence or to take any other unlawful action".That claim is a bold one, and it goes to the heart of what Mr Starr has been investigating.
Seay is so direct in her declarations there's a danger of banality here; it's a measure of the poet's skill that what would in other hands seem simplistic or even trite is here both enthralling and instructive.
AT the Cannes Film Festival in May, when the Austrian actor Christoph Waltz stepped up to the podium to accept his best-actor prize for playing an SS colonel in "Inglourious Basterds," he cut through the usual bluster of the ceremony with a direct and touching declaration.
Whoever he hugs, whoever he directs his spontaneous declarations of love to suddenly FEELS holy, suddenly FEELS blessed, suddenly FEELS totally alive -- touched as they've been by the kind of "Lo, I say unto you" energy that has the power to instantly turn words into reality.
This includes item declarations or direct definitions.
United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power made her comments at the Defense One Summit, where she addressed the question of how the U.S. intends to deal with Assad in remarks that were more direct than other recent declarations from the administration.
This year France has gone in an entirely different direction, offering "Declaration of War," written by and starring Valerie Donzelli and Jeremie Elkaim and directed by Ms. Donzelli.
Paine's pamphlet, anonymous at the time of publication, had a direct effect on the Declaration of Independence.
