0 the quality of saying what you think in a very honest way, without worrying about other people's opinions: --
He handled the embarrassing crisis with characteristic directness.
Their work has a directness and emotional honesty that's difficult to find in contemporary art.
1 the quality of moving in a straight line towards something or someone without stopping or changing direction: --
2 a very honest way of saying what you mean --
Instead, the reader's sense is above all one of urgency and compression and unusual directness.
Actually, both directness and indirectness are relative concepts rather than absolute ones.
This confusion of surface gives emphasis to form, but complicates the directness of experience.
Clarity and directness of message are self-evident throughout.
The second aspect of directness is a feeling of direct engagement : 'the feeling that one is directly manipulating the objects of interest'.
The way the mechanisms supporting these features are related to the design goal of directness is also discussed.
The space of the auditorium succeeds because of the almost primitive directness with which the intention is translated into form.
I was struck by the directness and the clarity of the prose; the sharp insights and fascinating historical detail.
