Sentence examples for plain and direct from inspiring English sources
"The presence that I go for is to be plain and direct," he said.
He mixes the Attic and Asiatic modes of oratory brilliantly, so as to be plain and direct sometimes while at others to perfectly capture the mood of the more flowery moment".
In his new film, "The Lovers," he films a romantic comedy (albeit one with few laughs) with such a plain and direct fullness that the movie exhausts itself in its conception and sits inert on the screen like an undigested mass of script pages.
Saeed's style is plain and direct, without literary pretensions, but with a tone of emotional delicacy that is as odd in the circumstances as it is touching: treated with courtesy by a single officer, after much cruelty, the prisoner refrains from asking questions about his arrest, because "I did not want to appear to be exploiting his kindness".
This motion allows me to poetically splash images with overstated diction, or be plain and direct.
Tad Brennan commented that Rowling's writing resembles that of Homer: "rapid, plain, and direct in expression".
McCann captures Lily's clear, simple intelligence in plain words and direct storytelling.
Harold Norse, a poet who broke new ground beginning in the 1950s by exploring gay identity and sexuality in a distinctly American idiom relying on plain language and direct imagery, died on Monday in San Francisco.
While Charlotte tries to reposition herself in New York, her namesake, the plain and unnervingly direct teen-age daughter of her best friend in high school, struggles to slip the snares of her confining life in Rockford; ostracized by her peers, she switches schools and initiates an affair with a secretive stranger.
Since taking over the racing association almost six years ago, Noe's plain-spoken and direct style has inspired both admiration and enmity, but little in between.
First, the distinction between Experiencer-subject adjectives in 10a and 10b lies in the distinction between inherent meaning (I'm just plain bored) and directed meaning (*I'm just plain interested).
