Sentence examples for slightly direct from inspiring English sources
The phrase "slightly direct" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a manner of communication that is somewhat straightforward but not overly blunt or harsh. Example: "Her feedback was slightly direct, making it clear what needed to be improved without being too harsh."
We found that comorbidity has a significant indirect effect on survival mediated by the resection process and a slightly direct effect on mortality.
We found that comorbidity has a significant indirect effect on survival of NSCLC patients mediated by the resection process, and a slightly direct effect on mortality.
Their findings indicated that social congruence directly influenced group functioning during the problem-solving process while subject-matter expertise of tutors had a slightly direct positive impact on student achievement.
Or perhaps the slightly more direct, "Please release the doors so that the train can leave the station".
O'Neill's immediate predecessors, Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers, took a slightly more direct approach but still stopped well short of saying anything worth discussing.
"We decided to be slightly more direct and play into them, and obviously it worked because they scored a goal apiece and created several more opportunities," he added.
Sondheim, 84, who wrote Sweeney Todd in 1979, is expected at the opening on 30 March although Thompson might hope for slightly less direct encouragement than he gave her in New York.
She's no more given to a big gesture than Twigs is, but her singing is slightly more direct, and she has no problem letting her collaborators — producers like Kingdom and Bok Bok — lay a solid beat behind her.
The surcharge is one of several similar options being exercised by Westchester business owners passing on increases to customers; slightly less direct ones are higher delivery fees and higher prices.
Striker Fernando Torres says Chelsea's slightly more direct approach is behind his return to form.
Rep. Pat Meehan, R-Pa., took a slightly more direct approach.
