Sentence examples for direct funny from inspiring English sources

Swells's integrity saw us part company as a writing partnership when he went on to direct funny, terrifying videos for rock bands.

But the other side of the coin is Banks's relaxed fluency – the direct, funny, unpretentious intelligence of his writing, which, along with his teeming imagination, made him perhaps Britain's best-loved major contemporary novelist.

An international and diplomatic history major, she looks a bit like a young Suzanne Farrell, in whose company she once danced, and is a biting New Yorker: direct, funny and occasionally prone to an exasperated tight-lipped smile.

Its main thesis is that "markets are conversations" among humans who use language that is "natural, open, honest, direct, funny and often shocking" and above all "unmistakably genuine", whereas companies and governments are stuck in "the humourless monotone of the mission statement, marketing brochure, and your-call-is-important-to-us busy signal".

I'm going to be in Suffolk and I can't wait to read Thunderstruck, Elizabeth McCracken's new short stories – I've just finished her brilliant memoir, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, and want more of her direct, funny and heart-stoppingly honest take on things.

Wilder said that he was surprised that Leonard Nimoy, who directed "Funny About Love," saw this need in him too.

"This is the hardest part I've ever had to cast," said Mr. Sher, who will direct "Funny Girl" at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles, with performances in January and February 2012 before an intended transfer to Broadway.

Zucker is polite, direct, even funny, but he doesn't linger on conversation.

She is, always, emotionally far too open, too honest, too direct, too funny, too desperate.

But it is a direct and funny show, which seems to speak out of the real, non-show-business world that most people inhabit — and it exists.

C1 O'Donnell Testifies to 'Coup' Rosie O'Donnell, in testimony in the trial over the demise of 'Rosie' magazine, accused executives of staging a "coup d'état," but still came across as pleasant, direct and funny.