He was an affable, sociable boy whose directness was of the easy and not the exacting kind.
Mahamat Saleh Haroun won the jury prize for his excellent film A Screaming Man, which was thought by some in Cannes to be over-schematic, but whose directness and simplicity I found entirely compelling.
The series ended on Thursday evening with chamber music by Joan Tower, a composer whose directness and eclecticism make her music instantly accessible, and whose imaginative sense of development — often by way of insistent but evolving rhythms and surprising juxtapositions — gives it an original, distinctive personality.
In describing the Sabras, the native-born Israelis, whose famous directness and candor seem to him simply discourtesy, he cannot resist adding, "Ironically, it was in Germany, in the eighties — the last place in the world that I expected to be reminded of Israel — that I encountered a similar bluntness and lack of tact".
The show also dwells on the children that she hasn't given birth to, and is shot through with the hauntingly pure voices of two young girls whose sweet directness is pointedly contrasted with Meow Meow's attempts to face down the world with sequins and pill-popping.
It will also be interesting to see whether that style suits players who thrived when leading rapid counterattacks – such as Jamie Vardy, whose jagged directness earned him an England cap, or Marc Albrighton, who, after being overlooked for months by Pearson, emerged as a rampant menace down the right towards the end (and provided welcome accuracy from set pieces).
As adept as he is at working with an orchestra, or electronica, or rocking out with the National, what's most appealing about his current album Carrie & Lowell is the way he uses these talents in the service of some mightily touching songs, whose melodic directness recall the best work of Elliott Smith.
The striker -- whose pace, directness, and eye for goal have caught Roy Hodgson's attention -- has scored only three senior goals for the national team.
To sharpen his journalistic eye, he read H. L. Mencken, who became an early mentor and whose cigar-waving directness and contrariness appealed to him.
The anthology opens with "The Aunt" by Mari Evans, whose simplicity and directness capture a child's experience of loss.
Her grave is simple: a soldier's grave, in a town whose toughness, rawness and directness was always a part of "the Dietrich".
