Sentence examples for pretty directly from inspiring English sources

"I had hinted pretty directly that I didn't want an engagement ring," she explained.

My frustrated anger and shame went pretty directly into the book".

My film Gulag was pretty directly inspired by it, though I would never claim to any of its greatness.

Whatever pain is being inflicted on the D.C. area is coming pretty directly from the [government] shutdown-related stuff right now, which is huge.

He said a storm would have to hit New York City pretty directly, and at a fairly high tide, for this even to be possible.

The tax credit, if there is one, can go straight to the insurer at the time of enrollment, so it can reduce the price pretty directly.

Between the thriving scenes at Hill Country, the West 26th Street outpost dedicated to Austin-style brisket and live music, and the long-running Rodeo Bar, a Tex-Mex-flavored roadhouse pretty much directly across town, that old saw from westerns about "this town isn't big enough for the two of us" doesn't seem to apply here.

If you're instead shooting outdoors while staring pretty much directly at the sun (how else are you going to get that sweet, sweet lens flare?), your photos won't be nearly as washed out.

This one is called the Watch Urbane, and it attempts a high-fashion approach thanks to fancy metal finishes, with a round face taken pretty much directly from the G Watch R.

We've long known that you'll get multiple images of each star [around a black hole], due to [the combination of] light rays that come pretty much directly to the camera, [and] rays that go in and circle around the black hole once and come to the camera.

Life intersects with work pretty darn directly when something like this goes down.