Sentence examples for emotional directness from inspiring English sources

This eloquent, poetic film, directed by Carroll Ballard, had an emotional directness that stood Mathison in good stead for writing E.T.

Turn the page, and you'll find Morgan writing with an astonishing emotional directness.

One reason, I suspect, is that we favour obliqueness over Wesker's brand of emotional directness.

But it all has a distinctive formal clarity and emotional directness that goes far beyond promise.

Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland showed us the power and emotional directness of which he is capable.

Ms. Simon's songwriting strengths have always been an unguarded emotional directness and a gift for bluntly catchy tunes.

Though he may be a long shot as an Oscar contender, the writer-director Ben Lewin, who made "The Sessions," is a favorite of the Bagger for his uncommon directness and emotional candor.

Assertiveness enhances emotional honesty, directness with others, and interpersonal relationships.

But critics citing her equally significant emotional power and directness often compared her to Emily Brontë.

His intuitive sense of form provides his actors, like singers, with brisk twists and turns that elevate his stories' emotional clarity and directness into a kind of offhanded complexity.

In her they found the perfect vehicle not just for Bacharach's adventures with melody, harmony and metre but also for the directness, emotional honesty and fidelity to vernacular speech with which David exalted what might in other hands have remained Mills and Boon cliches.