While some of his political and marketing questions are asked straightforwardly, Mr. Zogby occasionally cloaks his inquiries in figurative mammoth fur.
This is important because one might expect that medical faculty would be particularly savvy about reporting negative opinions when asked straightforwardly about their own views.
Richardson said that, with his focus on all the other elements of the case, he never asked Howell straightforwardly how he'd gotten home that night.
Pertinently, this is the only quantity that would be straightforwardly ascertainable by asking respondents about themselves.
When asked to speak more straightforwardly about what particular fragrances smell like — citrus, say, or sandalwood — Mr. Burr became inflamed.
The feminist research that most straightforwardly exemplifies these ideals are community self-study projects: research undertaken by women, on women, for women (Gorelick 1991, 459), in which women's experience and concerns give rise directly to the questions asked.
Yet no one asked, "Are you going to be OK?" Friends' medical upheavals -- like AIDS, like epilepsy -- are, if not tangible, at least somatic, and can therefore be addressed straightforwardly.
Malick dares to ask large questions, and ask them outright, straightforwardly, in voiceovers that take the form of inner monologues, or, more accurately, take the form of prayer: we often see people kneeling.
I suppose it's a remarkable coincidence that two people from that course should have gone on to become playwrights," he says, "although it has meant that my daughters do ask sometimes why I'm not famous like Alan Bennett". At university Frayn read French and Russian before changing to moral sciences, a course now more straightforwardly called philosophy.
But audiences here take it straightforwardly and literally".
