For Mr. Bray, who is British, such directness may mean that his new colleagues are rubbing off on him.
Ms Miller's ear for the language, both black and white, her eye for gesture and pose, above all her feel for the bitter clarity of adolescence, make this a remarkable book.In Jay Merrick's novel "Horse Latitudes", there is a moment of envy for such novelistic directness.
Such directness, such social grace wasn't at all what I had been expecting.
It was fascinating to hear these elusive, strange scores performed with such directness and intelligence.
Forgive those listeners – they're not accustomed to having someone speak to them with such directness and enthusiasm.
I hope that you will take such directness as a mark of respect, and not as an unkindness.
Yet this somber, pensive piece has such directness and emotional clarity that the music seems utterly honest.
Anyone who was in America at that time knows the risks he was taking, which no other pop star did with such directness.
Like the great Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Ms. Blythe sings with such directness and affecting expressivity that you feel as if she were speaking to you.
While such directness surely produces detractors, it also creates clarity and hones his brand.
