Sentence examples for telling us directly from inspiring English sources

"So what the Chinese are telling us, directly or indirectly, is that if we want access to their rare earth material metals we should invest in China".

In the essay published here, for instance, the author seems to be telling us directly about the time he spent on the island of Saint-Pierre.

It spawned the concept of ambient intimacy, of knowing what are friends are up to without them telling us directly.

In the absence of someone telling us directly, we draw our clues from their facial expressions and body language.

"Our members are telling us directly: 'We've had some pretty severe assaults on staff members recently,' most recently a stabbing incident in Edmonton on an officer," Godin said.

Even if there is indeed nothing useful in that video to understand what motivated this man to murder, we already know so much about this place from which he came and this culture in which we live that we can answer some questions without him telling us directly.

One whose narrator tells us, directly: "Wake up.

"They would like us to stop, though they haven't told us directly," the husband said.

One whose narrator tells us, directly: "Wake up.Live your life".

Moreover, in most cases, change of system parameters and prompt of the alarm system can not necessarily tell us directly what types the fault belongs to or where it lies in.

All that gives them resonance is our growing understanding that they fictionalise a part of Iris's life about which she cannot tell us directly.