directness

He allows the subject to float over to Hitchcock with a calm directness that I admire.

He spoke without notes and inspired confidence in a hurt world because of his directness, honesty, and compassion.

Since then, no president has spoken to the American people with so much candor, directness, and vision.

Mentally, he is full of aggression, thrust, directness, essentially active, not passive.

Their greatest virtue is their uncluttered directness, their fluid mastery of well-researched detail.

Further questions respecting her family, &c., were answered with equal directness and propriety, and with manifest truth.

Her directness had made all possible 'buts' seem ridiculous and futile, and had made the expression of curiosity seem offensive.

He always disdained circumlocution, prided himself upon the directness and simplicity of his address.

The power of any force—moral and religious as well as mechanical—is in proportion to the directness of its application.

As a community, San Francisco exalted personal courage, directness of encounter, straight and effective shooting.