Sentence examples for straight and direct from inspiring English sources

But despite the craziness, Start and Complete sounds straight and direct, the small songs perked up by subtle funk, electronic textures, and stuttering drumbeats.

The knock on Manly all season – even when they were travelling so well they were premiership favourites – is that they lacked the pack size to compete with big sides who decided to play straight and direct and bludgeon the Sea Eagles into submission.

Obama "certainly believes that Clapper has been straight and direct in the answers that he's given, and has actively engaged in an effort to provide more information about the programs that have been revealed through the leak of classified information," press secretary Jay Carney said on Tuesday, calling Clapper "aggressive in providing as much information as possible to the American people".

Such a path may be short, straight, and direct; or it may be long, crooked, and indirect.

Breaking his silence on the recent executive shakeup at Vivendi Universal media kingpin Barry Diller called new chief Jean-Rene Fourtou Jean-Rene Fourtou a "straight" and "direct" executive and labeled Edgar Bronfman, Jr. Edgar Bronfman, Jr., a "hero" of the debt-riddled concern.

I am pretty straight and direct.

(Prior to this, networks had been depicted in terms of boxes, grids, straight lines, and direct arrows, rather than the squiggles and curls of these new renderings).

Usually a staging platform coronal to the fragment is prepared to allow straight-line access and direct sight of the fragment under the operating microscope.

Could anything be learned from the George W. Bush phenomenon that would help us understand how we Americans choose our leaders and chart our collective course?" It's all downhill from there -- though hardly in a straight line, since clarity and direct exposition are anathema to the wheels-within-wheels school of thought, in which Baker really should be given an endowed chair.

In Fig. 12, which was adapted from Figure 1 of Takahashi et al. (2003b), a two-dimensional box-shaped magnetosphere for the cavity mode resonance was considered wherein the magnetic field was (i) straight and uniform, (ii) directed along the z-axis, and (iii) fixed to the northern and southern boundaries (ionosphere) of the box.

"He's straight up, direct and honest," she said.