Sentence examples for direct nature from inspiring English sources

I just thought it was his direct nature and cutting tongue, not a sort of flirtation.

Swarbrick's direct nature was evident soon after he began interviewing for the Notre Dame job.

Torres benefited from the direct nature of Chelsea's play – more often than not it was a quick ball over the top.

The documents show that Mrs Thatcher's concern at the direct nature of the public education campaign paled alongside the robustly Victorian views of her Cabinet colleague, Lord Hailsham, who wrote complaining at the colloquial use of the word "sex".

It was thanks to a friend from Anna Scher's, Kathy Burke, that he got his film-making break in his late 20s: Burke showed his short films to a producer at the BBC, Catherine Wearing, who invited him to direct Nature Boy, a four-part drama about a teenager failing at school, screened in 2000.

The leading barrister said: "One of the things that is disappointing, even as of this morning before the resolution, is that the lord chancellor hadn't made a statement given the extent and the direct nature of the attacks in the press".

We believe that this fast decay dynamics is a signature of formation of quasi-direct energy bands in the band structure of the Si NCs, since in the case of quasi-direct nature of transition the electron-hole recombination process is very fast [22].

Gilbert's later statements become more explicit about the directed nature of these non-moral obligations (Gilbert 1997, 75 6).

A further question is whether ownership or promising fully captures all that there is to the contralateral or directed nature of the commitment.

The directed nature of precursor transport – which originates from the high vacuum environment during the process – allows shading certain regions on the substrate by shadow masks and thus depositing patterned thin films.

The obligation relates Jack with Sue in a way in which Jack and a non-participant are not related.[43] To mark the directed nature of the normative relation, and in a way that does not suggest as strongly that they are moral in nature, we might speak of contralateral commitments (Roth 2004).