Mr. Kahane's singing, comfortable and nuanced in past encounters, was a revelation here; at times he combined a pop balladeer's directness with a jazz singer's fluid phrasing, reaching new heights of expressiveness.
And while the interactivity lacks the directness of a touchscreen, interacting with the surface on a flat surface feels more natural to a veteran laptop user than reaching out and touching the screen.
Perhaps it's the shock of such un-British directness that makes us reach deep into our pockets, or maybe it's the wicked glint in her eye.
Unfortunately, he sometimes rushed to reach it, which, together with the directness of his style, gave him a reputation for cleverness that he never lived down.
The St subjects started almost as poorly, but increased their directness of grasping up to session 3 where it reached a plateau (r = 0.93, p = .034, prep = 0.90, d = 5.06).
I appreciated his directness and made a note to myself that I should reach out to him when the time was right.
Bjork, who has lately been living in New York City, has said that "Medulla" is in part her response to the events of Sept. 11, an attempt to reach back to something shared by humanity before civilizations and cultures clashed: the directness of the human voice.
On the very first night of a long tour in a windswept park, I clearly wasn't seeing this revival to best advantage, but even so its emotional directness, puppyish playfulness and sense of how we are all haunted by our childhoods long after we reach maturity is beautifully handled.
Judith Tannenbaum, who organized the retrospective for the Rhode Island School of Design, said she felt that the directness of Ms. Benglis's work has been far reaching".She's not a performance artist, but her active making of the work is somehow still apparent in it," she said".That's been really influential on a generation".
Kitchener's hand gesture is equally provocative in its directness.
Directness is prized; ask straight questions and give straight answers.
