Sentence examples for direct often from inspiring English sources

Her manner was direct, often combative, her handshake firm.

Fans and reporters know Leyland for his direct, often disarmingly blunt way of speaking.

His real target is not science per se, but science divorced from direct, often mystical, experience of Nature.

Like Protestants elsewhere, the Anglicans preferred comparatively short, direct, often chordal — but not necessarily simple — sacred settings.

Haven attacks the Girard story with a combination of biography, "you are there" journalistic observation, and direct, often witty interviews with the philosopher himself.

Mr. Hirst often aims to fry the mind (and misses more than he hits), but he does so by setting up direct, often visceral experiences, of which the shark remains the most outstanding.

The films he directed, often some years apart, veered greatly in style and subject.

On Sunday, Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies directed often heavy traffic as mourners passed the crash site on foot and in cars.

Habit: Perennial herb (or flowering 1st year, appearing annual), hairs spreading or obliquely directed, often straight, stiff, < 0.5 mm, especially near stem tip.

That's the way directing often goes.

Wayans has had a fairly prolific career for a man of 40, juggling acting, writing and directing often at the same time.