| 单词 | directness |
| 例句 | Many of his sketches were done in pen and ink, a medium that captured his most intimate thoughts with admirable directness. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The shy-looking man with the liver splotches on his neck spoke with a bold directness and eagerness for action. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was true and yet in the directness of Shan's gaze, she felt guilty. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Now, in this stem man facing her, so totally different from her grandfather, Kit sensed the same quality of directness, and out of an instinctive respect she gave the only honest answer she could. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The directness of this inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Most emigrants learn the barbarians’ directness—how to gather themselves and stare rudely into talking faces as if trying to catch lies. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "Better Piggy than Fatty," he said at last, with the directness of genuine leadership, "and anyway, I'm sorry if you feel like that. Now go back, Piggy, and take names. That's your job. So long." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z But it is not just his pan-European style that make Mahler such a paradigm for twentieth-century composers; he is also notable for the directness of his musical expression. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He looks out at us with astonishing directness, as if he were reading us with the same intensity that we bring to bear on his strongly modeled features. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He respected Burnham for his candor, his directness, and the air of leadership he exuded, and no doubt he told the architects as much. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I’m taken aback by the directness and even the sincerity of this speech. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z But I was afraid of that simple executive directness now. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew how to deal with Edmund, now; firmness, he had decided, firmness and directness, that is all that is needed, and then they are happy enough; boys are very simple animals. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The children wanted to take Paige upstairs, isolate her, and have her speak to them with the directness and the concealed softness about the chances of their father being alive. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The original has the marks of early Greek poetry, great simplicity and directness and delight in the beautiful world. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The man at the counter seemed alarmed at Mom’s directness, but he handed Babou our tickets and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Kallner, with his baldness glistening, and his dress uniform oddly unsuited to the general mood, began with uneasy directness. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Ordinarily Holmes looked at Mrs. Lawrence with a directness that was unsettling, but now he avoided her gaze. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Theirs was a passionate rejection of America, for they sensed with that directness of which only the simple are capable that they had no chance to live a full human life in America. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The directness of his questions and his subsequent elaborations threw her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Then why are you here?” asked Bigwig, with his usual directness. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He is that rare operatic artist who even when singing lyrically, sounds like he is speaking with the directness of a great actor. Music Review: Real Strangeness in Imaginary Kingdom 2010-12-19T19:20:50Z He was well matched with Ms. Dickinson, who stood out for her own directness and verve. Kathryn Posin’s Bulgarian Program 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z The play of the summer light over land and sea is also caught with an ease and directness that seems almost miraculous. Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Summer With Monika’ 2012-05-27T03:41:56Z There's more of that directness between you and the music. Blog jam: Bowlegs Music 2013-06-05T11:48:00Z I found the directness of his approach refreshing, though there were places where I wanted more Mahlerian wildness. Music Review: Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid Plays Boulez and Mahler 2014-01-31T21:19:43Z Mr. McClatchy’s translation captures the meaning in poetic words that match the directness of the Italian: Grant me, Love, at last an end To my sorrow, oh hear my sigh. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z "I was probably as surprised as you are," says Boone, with characteristic directness. Cultural Affairs head a self-styled 'arts crusader' 2011-05-09T14:50:00Z Yet no Romantic excess or affect intruded upon the integrity and directness of his music-making. Two Pianists Test the Meaning of Virtuosity 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z They defuse a fear of the language by connecting it to a directness of thought and action. I, Malvolio: bringing Shakespeare to life for young audiences 2011-08-16T09:15:01Z The piece was called “Solfeggio,” it was written by Arvo Part, and it set the tone for an evening of music that balanced emotional directness with technical mastery. Estonian choir brings artistry to unfamiliar music 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z This video of them performing the beautiful “I See You” shows the success of the approach: their sound has the directness and immediacy of traditional music and the modernity of pop. Listen to Frøkedal 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z All of these genres are based upon a certain directness in messaging. Protest music has come "roaring back to life" when we need it most 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z That directness only heightens the esteem due these soldiers, even if they are reluctant to see themselves as admirable. Review: War Made Terrifyingly Palpable in ‘Citizen Soldier’ 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z What linked Ms. Previn to the flourishing singer-songwriter movement were her starkly autobiographical lyrics, in which she described mental instability, fears and fantasies, sometimes wittily and at other times with a blunt, almost scary directness. Dory Previn, as Portrayed by Kate Dimbleby 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z On Thursday, his opponents made plenty of substantive, detailed attacks on him, and maybe they worked, but tying them to questions of character risks underscoring his reality-TV-style directness. A National Descent Into Trump’s Pants 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z But spend time with Wahlberg and an intelligence becomes apparent, as does a refreshing, often astute directness. Mark Wahlberg is a chance-taker; one of his biggest is 'The Gambler' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The Hill of Venus swings back and forth between the clarity and directness of Britten and the whimsical fantasy of Tippett. BBCSO/Davis 2010-04-14T21:15:00Z But with her knack for inhabiting a work, she always seems to invest whatever she plays with freshness and directness of expression. Krzysztof Urbanski Leads the Philharmonic in Dvorak 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z The appeal of Quinn, I assume, is that he takes on big, bold subjects with visceral directness. Marc Quinn's giant baby sculpture infantilises art 2013-01-21T13:41:50Z Always he sought an implicitly modern directness and rawness that created a brave new intimacy among artist, object and viewer. Art Review: Matisse Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-11-29T22:44:14Z Under Mr. Nézet-Séguin, the Philadelphia string section, justly renowned for the warmth and body of its sound, conveyed the grave beauty of the adagio through the directness and restraint of the performance. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Performs at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-04T21:35:50Z Perhaps because of its pithy, if riddling, directness, the opening stanza of “Final Notations,” the last poem in “An Atlas of the Difficult World,” willed its way into my memory like a popular song. Adrienne Rich’s Poetic Transformations 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z And this information is conveyed with a clarity and directness that mask Mr. Frammartino’s extraordinary formal sophistication. | 'Le Quattro Volte': Eternal Complexities of the Very Simple Life 2011-03-29T22:23:21Z And, just as likely, Allah will field them with his characteristic blend of bull-headed directness and spiritually minded compassion. Bold films negotiate the fine line between voyeurism and bearing witness 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z The scale of it was all out of whack — not the script, which Didion imbued with a soul-baring directness, but the production. Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ Gets Joan Didion’s Intention Just Right 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z As Joyce Carol Oates has said, "the Joycean short story is immediately recognisable as a sub-genre in which the directness of the prose and the suggestive ellipsis of poetry are blended". A brief survey of the short story 2011-03-09T09:41:46Z But for all the directness of his appeal, Turner is a more problematic figure than the rollick of the evening suggests. Frank Turner – review 2013-04-19T15:00:03Z The D’Souzian approach favors directness in how it affirms all the beliefs of its simpatico partisans, but his ideological opposites indulge in saner versions of the same tactics. Borat v Trump: can entertainment really affect an election? 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z The accessibility concerns not only Kaminsky’s musical style and the opera’s emotional directness but also its compactness. 'As One,' the every(wo)man transgender opera 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z The musically glorious performance, with Simon Rattle conducting his Berlin Philharmonic, marked the latest collaboration between Mr. Rattle and Mr. Sellars, but it lacked the emotional directness of their acclaimed “ritualizations” of the Bach Passions. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Stages a Musically Glorious ‘Vixen’ 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z And because most of us have the experience of drawing, even though we may profess to be no good at it, drawings have a kind of familiarity and directness we can feel at home with. White Cube drawing show: The thin grey line 2010-07-20T20:31:00Z “The writing has an economy, a simplicity and directness,” he said, “which puts to shame the involved fake-political utterances of many writers for whom English is the native tongue.” Stephen Vizinczey, ‘In Praise of Older Women’ Author, Dies at 88 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z There were cackling monologues from Mr. Becker, who dismissed current pop as “part of a fashion trend”; he also took on more guitar solos with a spiky, bluesy directness. Music Review: Steely Dan at the Beacon Theater - Review 2011-09-21T23:01:55Z Beyond his sound, the directness and charismatic intensity of his singing were captivating. Review: ‘Messiah’ Brings the New York Philharmonic to Church 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The looping, dreamlike style of “M Train” can be confounding, particularly after the heartbreaking directness of “Just Kids.” Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z While Sorescu’s language, in “On the Threshold of Winter,” was rich in metaphor, Ms. O’Reilly expressed her fears, hopes and frustrations with quotidian directness. Cancer Haunts a Composer’s Life and Work 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z The film’s talky, unemotional directness might turn some voters off but, aside from Scott Z Burns’ info-packed script, she has the best chance of recognition. The early favourites: who might be winning Oscars in 2020? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Music has a directness and a physical effect. From Ai Weiwei to Anish Kapoor: the art world's love affair with pop 2012-11-14T18:23:09Z And although the incandescently elfin Stone doesn't much resemble King--who always looked both refined and California-friendly--she nails King's thoughtful directness. Battle of the Sexes Serves Up a Winning Portrait of Billie Jean King 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z It was fascinating to hear these elusive, strange scores performed with such directness and intelligence. Music Review: Revisiting an Annual Rite of Beethoven and Sibelius 2011-03-01T22:13:44Z The directness of Christopher K. Morgan’s work hooks you from the first move. Breathtaking ‘By the Inch’ at the American Dance Institute Parenting – that word – it’s very different now in terms of directness, maybe.” Rachel Weisz: 'My parents were refugees. Brexit feels like a death' 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z The idea was to evoke feelings of frustration and directness in Issa’s demeanor and outfit. The Inspiration Behind the Great Clothes on ‘Insecure’ 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z The image’s power and mystery are not unexpected, but its directness is. Review | In the galleries: Renee Stout’s fiery visions draw inspiration from Jimi Hendrix 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z This last story, which is less a story in any conventional sense than a sort of song of consolation, has an emotional directness that is lacking in most of the volume’s other tales. Books of The Times: Helen Simpson?s ?In-Flight Entertainment? 2012-03-22T21:51:09Z He went for nerve and directness and, as the title of his first record had it, his aim was true. Review: Elvis Costello’s ‘Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink,’ a Memoir 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Trappers pause dreamily in their canoes; boatmen play cards, watch the river or rest, sometimes looking toward us with knowing directness. Review: George Caleb Bingham’s Serene Images of Rivers and Frontier Life, at the Met 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Such directness is the new normal with heritage or Indigenous cultural tours. The Nez Perce are no longer leaving their story to others. They’ve become tour operators. 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Perhaps it's down to the sociological or political directness that we expect of a certain kind of new writing. Noises off: Canadian playwrights and jukebox musicals 2012-07-06T15:15:36Z The result is a body of work that is anti-sensational but shocking in the directness with which it engages with violence. Kai Wiedenh?fer's The Book of Destruction 2011-01-23T00:05:35Z One woman was impressed at the directness of Perry's art. Rewind TV: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry; The Secret History of Our Streets; The Apprentice 2012-06-09T23:05:47Z But in the dusky and eloquent performance Mr. van Zweden led, he drew rich sound and depth from the strings while maintaining chamber-music clarity and directness. Review: A Symphony Talks Politics 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z "It has a way of meeting the audience, a directness of address, that I don't see in theatre," says Bye. The great comedy ambush 2013-01-09T19:00:02Z The script handles the tabloid attacks and portrays the behind-the-scenes machinations to discredit Meghan with directness. Surprise! Lifetime's new “Harry & Meghan” movie isn't a total joke, veering from kind to just weird 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z The piece’s orchestration is subtle and often spare, and Mr. Zinman and the Philharmonic mined its dark beauty with a disciplined directness that complemented Mr. Shaham’s account. Music Review: The Modern Beethoven Ends at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-16T21:15:58Z In fact, its directness and sincerity—to the point of frequent, unembarrassed cliché—contributes to the almost shocking immediacy of the voice. Why Name Your Book After Hitler's? 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z This desire for directness is best exemplified by the obsession with naming that runs through her novels. In Gory, Majestic Fiction, a Hard Look at the Holocaust’s Stubborn Silences 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The directness and honesty of her worn, serious face makes the account of Hare’s betrayal even more vivid than his unsparing account of it. ‘The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir,’ by David Hare 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z As elusive as the work looks, there’s a truth-in-advertising directness to it. Art Review: In the Beginning Was the Word 2011-02-16T13:00:07Z Ruth would be an archetypal “cool” grandma were it not for her haughty bite and startling directness. ‘Juniper’ Review: Bad Grandma 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Moore’s style came from a simplicity and rhythmic directness combined with a distinctive effect called slapback. Scotty Moore’s legacy: Elvis’s first guitarist helped created a signature rock sound 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Works of this sort especially resonate with the 20th century’s delight in spontaneity and directness. Art Review: Vessels of Clay, Centuries Old, That Speak to Modernity 2011-04-07T20:56:46Z It's a slight piece, but not without its subtleties: it successfully combines a layered knowingness with a sweet, unaffected directness. Lovers Walk 2010-09-23T22:30:00Z Eventually sexual adventure, often rendered with graphic directness, would become a staple of Updike’s fiction, as his mission to record the Protestant ethic met the upheavals of the sexual revolution. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z The tenor Jean-Michel Richer sang with affecting directness and poise, but the music seemed generic, with nothing to make audible the particulars of his suffering. Review: A Look at ‘Léonore’ Before Beethoven, and Others, Got to It 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z There’s a simplicity to him and a directness, which I admire. Benedict Cumberbatch Has Heard Your Confusion About ‘The Power of the Dog’ 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Yet despite the music's unadorned directness, the piece doesn't quite work. Cherubini: Lodoïska – review 2013-05-08T16:54:33Z In its intimacy and directness, this beautifully small-scale performance by Tenet and the Sebastians was just as shattering as the Berlin Philharmonic’s near-operatic approach. Review: An Intimate ‘St. Matthew Passion’ Has a Shattering Effect 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The Brahms quintet took time to cohere, and it was not until the andante and the spiky scherzo that Kovacevich's playing settled into its familiar balanced directness. Stephen Kovacevich 70th birthday ? review 2010-10-18T21:30:00Z He contributed production to two songs on Kanye West’s “Yeezus” — “Black Skinhead” and “Send It Up,” which both pull off a similar balance of directness and idiosyncrasy, as the music on “Aleph” does. Music Review: Gesaffelstein, a.k.a. Mike Levy, at Webster Hall 2013-12-05T23:36:19Z But the fact is that directness is better if the subject is, well, directions. So, you’re hiking across rural Britain? Walking the walk is the easy part. 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Her apple pie, girl-next-door directness, with a trace of hurt, serves her to a tee on the Patsy Cline opener, "Why Can't He Be You." Diane Schuur's new country disc a keeper 2011-06-06T21:30:09Z They nearly always face the camera with a directness that hints of confrontation, challenge. 'Touching Strangers' touches truths about connection 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato approached the work with a bright but flexible timbre and projected its emotional power, as well as the suave surfaces of Berlioz’s vocal writing, with an appealing directness. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-02-25T00:04:16Z Judith Tannenbaum, who organized the retrospective for the Rhode Island School of Design, said she felt that the directness of Ms. Benglis’s work has been far reaching. Art: A Life of Melting the Status Quo 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z Such women – cleverer, tougher and funnier than the men who underestimate them – perfectly suit an acting style rooted in directness and lack of vanity. Frances McDormand: two defining roles, two decades apart 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Cowell’s departure leaves a gap of withering directness that will be almost impossible to fill. Reimagining ?American Idol? After Simon Cowell 2010-08-01T22:45:00Z What remains is bright, clean and intense, combining minimalism’s austerity with pop art’s directness. Review | In the galleries: David X Levine uses pencils to put a new spin on an Old Master 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z I missed the intimacy and directness — the almost chamber-orchestra clarity, with the words leaping off the stage — of the St. Louis production. Review: ‘Fire’ Brings a Black Composer to the Met, Finally 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z This is a fairly standard requirement in theatre, but the trusting directness of the LA audience meant the darker play inside the play was sometimes subdued. Death of The Author: how did my play fare in LA? 2011-03-07T17:31:16Z These poets’ directness suits their media, at their best disrupting never-ending streams of gossip, selfies and opinion-mongering with stark emotional clearings that aren’t entirely unlike the mental stillness and “othering” fostered by poetry’s traditional techniques. Why Rupi Kaur and Her Peers Are the Most Popular Poets in the World 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z It wasn’t completed until 1985, but it did what “The Memory of Justice” didn’t: it approached the Holocaust with an absolute directness, accepting fully the impossibility of showing the unshowable and filming the unfilmable. Two Prescient Films About the Memory of the Holocaust 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z In these elegant, vibrant performances, Mr. Andsnes intriguingly reveals the magisterial qualities of the earlier work and the classical directness of the later one. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Beethoven, the Bad Plus, Fred Astaire and More 2014-04-02T16:00:38Z He spoke with the sort of insight and directness you expect from someone you've known for years. ArtsBeat: Frank Ocean, the R&B Musician, Uses Tumblr to Describe His Love for a Man 2012-07-04T17:26:49Z There’s neither antic sketch comedy nor blithering quirkiness in his performance, but a directness that goes together with the character’s substantial yet nerdy sincerity. Everyone Is a "Trainwreck" 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z No superlative seems sufficient to describe the clarity, directness and power of Manet's art. Manet: the Inventor of Modernity ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:37Z There’s a lack of waste, a sinewiness that fits the scalding directness of the story. Elena Ferrante’s ‘Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Timony says she was inspired by the directness of vintage recordings from Stax Records, wanting to blend the bluntness of old rhythm and blues with the aggressive nature of after-school basement shredding. Teen angst still afflicts Mary Timony in adulthood 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z The Illusionist is like a seance that brings to life scenes from the 1950s with eerie directness, in a way that glitzy digital animation or live-action period location work could somehow never do. Film review: The Illusionist 2010-08-19T21:52:00Z Lyrically, the LP was also ahead of its time in the way it centered emotional honesty and adolescent confusion, with the kind of directness and sincerity not heard on many '80s new wave albums. Why Tears for Fears deserves Rock & Roll Hall of Fame consideration 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z There is a new directness and generosity in his recent works. Music Review: Elliott Carter Celebrates 103rd Birthday at 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-10T00:36:32Z Green’s work is frequently compared to that of Diane Arbus: both are drawn to parks, to gender nonconformists, and to a certain directness of gaze. A Counterculture Portraitist’s Chronicle of New York’s Youth 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z For me, the lean textures, clarity and emotional directness were exactly what made the interpretations so rewarding. Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen Brings Mahler to Carnegie, Ever So Coolly 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z I think a real appreciation for directness and honesty, a real fascination with all the medical processes. ‘Prostate Dialogues’ storyteller John Spelman gets personal — but not in a ‘TMI’ kind of way By focusing on this one community, featured in The New York Times in April, the performances and the pieces conveyed with powerful directness and immediacy the tragedy that shook the entire country. Music Review: ?Resonances of the Kugo,? Part of Music From Japan at Merkin 2012-02-19T19:53:15Z “There’s something about the directness of comics,” Imam says. Comics festival brings international flair to Seattle 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z For all of Mr. Serra’s facetious asides, his art has an estimable directness. Richard Serra Is Carrying the Weight of the World 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z But Luise Buchberger, the cellist, played the continuo line with much less vibrato, a period touch that added a nice directness to the statements of Frederick the Great’s theme in the first Allegro. Music Review: Bach and Polyphonies Minifestival at Lincoln Center 2010-08-15T21:47:00Z He talked about the instrument the same way he played it: with a directness born of years of knowledge, offering one tidbit after another. Jordi Savall wakes an early-music instrument from a long sleep 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z The whole thing has an internalised, meditative quality, and the cast use discretion and directness to good effect. Treasured 2010-06-13T21:30:00Z Yet it was no surprise that Ms. Fleming’s Countess melted when the youthful tenor Joseph Kaiser, as Flamand, sang Strauss’s lyrically rapturous setting of that text with such tender sound and directness. Music Review: Words or Music: Why Choose? 2011-03-29T22:23:23Z In its boldness and directness, the artist’s recent work evokes 1960s pop and minimalism. In the galleries: No day at the beach 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z It creates a directness and a knowingness that is more sensuous than erotic, even when the subject is a slightly drunken bacchante. She Painted Marie Antoinette (and Escaped the Guillotine) 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Also shown here are children’s letters and drawings donated by fire and police departments, expressions of touching directness and sincerity sent to New York from all over the country and from foreign lands as well. Exhibition Review: 9/11 Exhibition at New-York Historical Society ? Review 2011-09-07T21:28:42Z Akyol said she loved that song’s directness, but that she preferred her own songs to be more enigmatic. Turkey’s Psychedelic Rock Star Speaks Her Mind, Ambiguously 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z It's the directness of his writing, and the way it plunges you into taut scenes without any kind of preamble and holds you there. A week in radio: Harold Pinter's Betrayal 2012-07-19T20:30:02Z And he is able to identify the creative instruments of financial destruction with the directness that is all-important to a book like this. Books of The Times: Roger Lowenstein Traces ?The End of Wall Street? 2010-03-31T22:53:00Z The challenge here was to maintain the original lyric’s directness without overstating the case or demeaning the West Indies. Six Lyrics That Show Why ‘Hamilton’ Is Tough to Translate 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The lyrics are so open while still having a directness throughout. Audio advent calendar: Villagers playlist 2010-12-09T13:56:00Z The overall feeling is a directness and intimacy that Mr. Lester compared to an indie movie. ‘Oklahoma!’ Is Reimagined at Bard College’s SummerScape Festival 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Thus are the figurative planes set for the book's final third, in which Barnes confronts his own grief with a directness the more brutal for its contrast with the first two thirds. Julian Barnes 2013-03-30T07:00:25Z Like their teacher, these young eclectics have avoided stylistic dogma, and they draw on everything: serialism, Minimalism, pop, electronica, jazz, world music, soaring Romanticism, directness and complexity. John Corigliano?s New Work Commemorates 9/11 2011-09-24T22:15:07Z Reading that, I’m reminded of the stories of William Carlos Williams when he wrote as the family doctor he was—his directness, his frank and knowledgeable details of medical conditions and treatment, his objective reporting. The Story Is the Thing: On Lucia Berlin 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z It was wonderful to hear the affirming chorales that end each scene in this epic work, which tells of Jesus’ last days and crucifixion, sung with such full-bodied sound and directness. Oratorio Society of New York Performs ‘St. Matthew Passion’ 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Her attitude isn't one of blithe unconcern but uncomplicated directness. Angela Lansbury's spirit and star power burn as bright as ever 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z She faces us with sober directness, nude but for white pumps on her feet and shackles around her wrists. 'Power: Work by African American Women' delivers the voices of 37 artists in one fierce exhibition 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z When I got around to listening to it, I became enamored with the album’s directness and simplicity. Whither the Indie Band? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z It was directed by James Mangold, who shares script credit with Scott Frank and Michael Green, and has the clarity and directness of a classic genre picture. Review: In ‘Logan,’ a Comic-Book Stalwart Turns Noirish Western 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z I think it’s a kind of honesty and a kind of directness that does not assume that they will miss all subtlety. Novelist Alice McDermott on what she owes readers and not winning awards 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z “This Bitter Earth,” danced with Tyler Angle, is one of several works made for her that rely upon her unique directness and seem likely to fade without her. City Ballet Presents ‘Masters at Work’ 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Wherever he goes, the artist records his surroundings in an expressionist style that stresses spontaneity and childlike directness. Review | In the galleries: Artists create a multi-work homage to a teacher and a comrade 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Their declarations of rage, triumph, fear and warning possess a directness and universality that Mr. Indiana likened to the Ten Commandments. Robert Indiana’s Best: A Mini Retrospective 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Yet timing and circumstances have rendered its directness, the outright obviousness of its metaphors and messaging, into its greatest strength. ‘The Platform’ Review: An Accidentally Timely Political Allegory 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Here was a conductor, it seemed, trusting in the music and simply trying to help his eager choristers and the excellent Boston Symphony players to perform it with directness and vitality. Music Review: John Oliver Leads the Boston Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-08T22:44:17Z From the get-go, there’s “Heaven on Their Minds,” whose guitar riff has an evocative directness right up there with Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.” Why ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ the Album Has Always Rocked 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z In the smaller pieces, an “Ave Maria” and “Pater noster,” for instance, both transcriptions of Liszt’s own choral settings, Tocco was all simplicity and directness. James Tocco impresses with rare performance of 1849 Liszt piano suite 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z I couldn't help liking the directness of the moment when the lights went out on the NHS. Reader reviews: your take on Much Ado about Nothing and Danny Boyle's Olympic ceremony 2012-08-03T17:33:40Z This board book challenges stereotypes early with rhymes and drawings that address grown-up issues like equal pay, consent and domestic labor with toddler-level directness. 12 groundbreaking books for young readers of all genders 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z The exhibition is unusually compelling, given its directness and simplicity. Exhibition Review: Natural History Museum Explores the Wonders of Pterosaurs 2014-04-10T14:00:02Z Yet for all of Piau’s stylish word-painting, she never fussed with the vocal line and approached the texts with admirable directness. French soprano’s serene concert at UDC is the stuff of dreams 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The young medium, he said, “has all the advantages and disadvantages of childhood. It is still unafraid of spontaneity and directness.” The Little-Known Photo Collages of Josef Albers 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Two unfamiliar series of small pencil sketches in vitrines have a thrilling directness. Georgia O’Keeffe, ‘Modernized’ by MoMA 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z “La Koro Sutro” is ambitious and large-scale, lasting nearly 30 minutes, yet somehow personal and modest, too, with a kind of innately American directness. America’s Quintessential Maverick Composer, at 100 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The contrast with Harris’s flayed, raw directness is apt for the drama. Early Meryl Streep and Peak Alan Alda in “The Seduction of Joe Tynan” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z No one invented Dolly Parton or Elizabeth Taylor, although many have claimed to, and their connection to their fans was, and has been, a visceral, living thing based on an honesty and directness. The Media Equation: Elizabeth Taylor: Famous, but on Her Own Terms 2011-03-26T17:36:52Z “Spencer” seems to me the more coherent film, partly because the directness of Stewart’s performance stands out so poignantly against the moral vacuity and aesthetic constipation of her surroundings. ‘Spencer’ Review: Prisoner of the House of Windsor 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Kahane’s interpretation mixes pop-song directness and amplified singing with string writing that attains a whorled density and includes an embedded reference to a Thomas Adès piece. Music Review: Gabriel Kahane at Zankel Hall 2012-10-28T21:31:37Z She chose to step down from the court to nurse her husband through Alzheimer’s disease, but he quickly slipped beyond her reach; she eventually confronted, with similar directness, her own ongoing struggle with dementia. An Intimate Portrait of Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Impressed by his confidence and directness, I said yes. Modern Love: Being the Older Woman 2010-07-22T21:24:00Z His movies, though set nominally in the present, evoke the 1930s in pacing and mood as well as in their combination of mischievous wit and emotional directness. Wonders in a Grim World: The New York Film Festival’s Best Trick 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z While those performances are sometimes a bit more strait-laced expressively than today's much suaver period-instrument bands, there is a wonderfully uncomplicated directness about the singing and playing that is always fully engaged. The Complete Bach Edition on USB – review 2013-04-17T15:30:21Z Henry's narrative voice retains the vigour, the energy and the directness it possessed from the beginning of his story. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z If it were my marriage, I’d look past the tattoo to the bigger issue of valuing directness more and, toward that end, pledging to judge less. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: He had no inkling that his wife would get a tattoo 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z The image’s directness is emblematic of Mr. Shabazz’s distinct pictorial style. 50 Years of Art in the Bronx 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z “There’s just a degree of directness in the way things are being stated that feels new.” Perspective | The media has turned a corner and is normalizing Trump less. It’s about time. 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z It's a beautifully conceived and immaculately realised sequence, sung with simple directness by the six male voices of Cinquecento in a nicely churchy, but never overpowering, acoustic. Willaert: Missa Mente Tota; Motets, etc 2010-07-01T21:40:00Z He writes a clear prose that transforms ordinary events, detailing the span of his life with such directness that everything seems to be happening in real time. ‘My Struggle’: Book four of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z I guess what attracted me was the purity and directness. Style: Outsider Art Finds Its Place in Fashion 2011-01-10T13:50:04Z It was, he decided, "an excellent Hamlet" and "a fine performance that confirms Peake's capacity for emotional directness and a fierce, uncensored honesty". Plaudits for Maxine Peake's Hamlet 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Batsheva dancers always have presence: a self-assured directness that borders on arrogance. Review: Gibney Dances Ohad Naharin, Minus the Inner Drive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Nguyen took a family tragedy involving the death of his brother — one that he had already turned into an earlier play, “Trial by Water” — and has told it again with more directness. Theater Review: ?The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G,? by Qui Nguyen 2012-02-21T22:20:41Z As so often with Matthews, the music's straightforwardness and apparent directness are deceptive. David Matthews's 70th Birthday – review 2013-03-21T18:25:23Z “Nina has never stopped being relevant because her activism was so right on, unique, strong, said with such passion and directness,” Ms. Garbus said in an interview at a Brooklyn bakery. Nina Simone’s Time Is Now, Again 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z It’s a self-conscious project that, somehow, never affects the directness of the songs. Playlist: Teen, Jorge Drexler and Secret Sisters Have New Albums 2014-04-25T19:44:43Z Although his score often instructs singers to “sound as beautiful as possible,” his writing calls for the directness of pop rather than an operatic color. Review: ‘Stranger Love’ Reflects the L.A. Philharmonic at Its Finest 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The almost primitive directness of her voice is bracing. A Red-Hot Affair With a Younger Man, and the Writing It Kindled 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z All the 13 cast members speak with merciful clarity and directness, so you’re rarely in doubt as to who’s who and why they behave as they do. Review: All the World’s a Grave in the Druid ‘Richard III’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Stephen Pace, Painter and Abstract Expressionist, Is Dead at 91 Stephen Pace, whose exuberant style applied Abstract Expressionist scale and directness to figurative painting, died on Sept. Stephen Pace, Painter and Abstract Expressionist, Is Dead at 91 2010-10-07T06:21:00Z As a filmmaker, however, he’s more focused and less predictable, channeling his choleric style into pointed satires on American society that sometimes hit their marks with uncomfortable directness. ‘Willow Creek,’ a Good Old Hunt for Sasquatch 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z It’s a brilliant piece of work, a lesson in both directness and compression, highlighting what Williams saw as poetry’s central sustenance: “to be in touch with that part of ourselves we call the human spirit.” Poet Miller Williams dies at 84 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z From his serenely lyrical shaping of the opening theme, and then his lilting yet subtly restrained playing of the bouncy first variation, he approached this formidable masterpiece with unspoiled directness and sincerity. A Critic and a Pianist, Close but Not Quite Friends 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z At its best, “High on Tulsa Heat” is starkly elegant, addressing sadness with clarity and directness. Review: On John Moreland’s ‘High on Tulsa Heat,’ World-Weariness and Clarity 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Those films represented even the most unsavory aspects of their subjects with sometimes startling directness. ‘The Hateful Eight’ and ‘The Revenant’ bring the pain, but what do we gain? 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Like Winters, the soprano Asmik Grigorian, who stars in all three acts, is an intense actress with a voice of shivery directness. At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z In its simplicity, its directness, its willingness to seem naïve, Schneidermann finds it hauntingly unimpeachable. The Moral Failings of American Press Coverage of Nazi Germany 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The effect is devastating because of its directness, but Dutilleux's music is never mawkishly sentimental. A guide to Henri Dutilleux's music 2013-01-21T16:19:00Z Critics of the day gave it the label expressionistic realism, but the directness of Neel's art now looks like a form of free speech. Alice Neel: Painted Truths 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z But Henson, who is 48, has the informality and downhome directness that is to be expected from someone raised on the breadline in Washington DC. Taraji P Henson: 'Hollywood didn't grasp my talent' 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Were you also compelled to tackle the subject of aging because it’s something we seldom see depicted with candor and directness in movies? A Word With: Michael Haneke: Michael Haneke Discusses ‘Amour’ at the Cannes Film Festival 2012-05-25T21:54:26Z Silk-screened with a new perfection, Warhol’s retreads achieved the visual impact, and directness, of a popular image always meant for mass production. When a Warhol for $225 Has More Heft Than One for $195 Million 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z What struck me about her was the clarity of her mind, the directness of her conversation and the generosity of her heart. Joan Rivers, a singular comic with a writer's conflicted heart 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Richardson sang with a particularly appealing freshness and directness. Review | The small Opera Lafayette proves its mettle, pulling off its first Handel 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z His outspokenness, his directness, his brilliance — he’s everything I would want to be. CNN’s Don Lemon: ‘We’re living in two different realities as Black and White people’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z What these composers share is a near-nerdy infatuation with rhythmic complexity, a harmonic and melodic directness, a fascination with poetry, a sentimental side and a love for trick endings. 4 emerging composers' works shine in L.A. Phil Green Umbrella The poet Mark Strand once wrote, “There is something about Neruda — about the way he glorifies experience, about the spontaneity and directness of his passion — that sets him apart from other poets.” Pablo Neruda’s love nest in Santiago: Like his poetry, it’s filled with passion 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z There was an authoritative quality to Chamberlin's work, a clarity, directness and absence of extraneous mannerism, honed by discipline and experience. Seattle actor Mark Chamberlin: an appreciation of his work, and life 2011-03-30T23:12:10Z But they are good enough to recognize Kleiber’s characteristic lightness, glorious directness and rhythmic incision. Classical Playlist: Bach, Anders Koppel, Mahler and More 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The good is in the simple, sound, practical advice of Mr. Carnegie’s counsel, and the lively and well-illustrated directness with which it is given. Review: ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People,’ by Dale Carnegie 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The tunes she crafts for the resulting record are intricate and eclectic, but still honor the raw directness of her early work. ‘A Dog Called Money’ Review: Lyrical Encounters With PJ Harvey 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z So the directness of her enthusiasm on a pair of new releases is disarming, a pleasant surprise. Playlist: Inside a Troubled Mind and Mideast Musical Theories 2010-03-25T19:46:00Z While acting is not really involved in a song recital, he found an effective balance, sometimes facing his audience and singing with gripping directness, sometimes embodying the confused, awkward poet, shuffling in place restlessly. Music Review: Schumann?s Poetic Side, Poured Richly Into Songs 2010-03-01T22:28:00Z But her kind of directness has had a hard time in a market-driven world that favors the convenient slipperiness of ambiguity. 27 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Oliveira said his goal was simplicity, a directness designed to focus the senses. Manoel de Oliveira, Pensive Filmmaker Who Made Up for Lost Time, Is Dead 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z He scrutinized reality with a new directness and tried to record what he saw. A Cult Favorite Enters the Art Canon 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The directness and clarity of the quartet’s performance of the original made the beefed-up version seem almost obvious in comparison. Music Review: Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico 2012-07-29T20:46:59Z “The almost primitive directness of her voice is bracing,” the Times critic Dwight Garner wrote in his review of the book. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The dancers, arms outstretched, spin like planets, and as with so much of the movement in “Curriculum II,” there is a directness, a simplicity that gives it power. Review: To the Moon! A Vivid Bill T. Jones Dance Leaves Earth’s Orbit 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Taylor Swift’s unfiltered testimony about a former radio host who she said groped her attracted a lot of notice for its directness and for the skill with which she parried his lawyer. ‘I’m Grateful for What Taylor Swift Did’: Readers React to the Verdict 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z But if her directness about sexism and misogyny bothers people, Ms. Pelletier does not care. The Pill Helped Start the Sexual Revolution. What Will Phexxi Do? 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Disgusting though the acts may be, Mr. Eklund commits to them with directness, creativity and immediacy. | 'The Divide': ?The Divide,? Directed by Xavier Gens - Review 2012-01-12T22:45:21Z Still, the soft directness of her eyes and voice was more intimate than my question. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z His report is written with a combination of a journalist's directness and a lawyer's attention to detail; his judgements are informed by common sense and long experience of the way journalists work and take decisions. What difference will the Pollard report make to the BBC? 2012-12-19T17:50:43Z But Beaton’s portraits also evince a startling purity—a sensual directness and a spareness of composition that seem to free his subjects from their respective eras rather than pin them down. Cecil Beaton Through the Decades 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Each story inches the reader closer to an understanding of what worries Watkins, what she at first searchingly fingers, and then, with gathering directness, fights against: that “the white supremacist patriarchy determines what I write.” What Makes an Essay American 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The baritone Stephen Powell brought a robust voice, crisp diction and sober directness to his singing of the Owen poems. Music Review: ‘War Requiem’ by Britten, With an Angelic Touch 2014-05-02T21:20:34Z However, she spent too much time with her eyes down, looking at her score, for the directness of either work to come across fully to the audience. Proms Chamber Music 3: Les Talens Lyriques/Rousset ? review 2011-08-02T18:16:50Z This is meant, surely, to provide greater transparency and directness. Review: In ‘Good’ and ‘No End of Blame,’ Politics and Prickly Debate 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z I breathe an internal sigh of relief at his directness. Denzel Washington on diversity western The Magnificent Seven: ‘Audiences like to know who they’re rooting for’ 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Like Sookhee, Ms. Kim displayed a quick, goofy wit and unabashed ambition, and said she identified most with her character’s “rough directness.” Four Actresses Everyone Will Be Talking About This Fall 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Blitzstein, sometimes at the risk of minstrelsy, absorbed the musical voice of the South, where the opera takes place, while writing symphonic music with the economy and directness of Copland. Susan Graham, Opera’s Sweetheart, Tries Something New: Being Nasty 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Two interwoven narratives dominate this film — Lil Peep’s inexorable rise, owing to the emotional directness and melodic accessibility of his music; and his thin defenses against the demands and consequences of fame. Juice WRLD and the Tragic End of the SoundCloud Rap Era 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z It has the presence, the smooth finish, the scale and psychological directness of a Renaissance painting, but is distinctly contemporary in its emotional appeal. Review | Breonna Taylor’s image adorned T-shirts, signs and street murals. Now her portrait is in the Smithsonian. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Unhealthy dynamics promote dissembling where directness serves us best, unfortunately. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: My sister can date whomever she likes. Except him. Or him. Or him. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z My mother’s expression was halfway between shock and resignation: she’d known this day would come, but the directness of the question still took her aback. Akala: ‘As I grew up, I became embarrassed by my mother’s whiteness' 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z As a bass player, Christian McBride favors depth and directness, laying down sturdy grooves that exert irresistible pull. Music Review: Christian McBride Trio at the Village Vanguard 2012-12-14T23:18:18Z The smoothly rounded arms and long lines of ballet are gone, replaced by a looseness and the directness of simply moving to music. A Triumphant De Keersmaeker Takes Paris Opera by Storm 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z The furniture-smashing, milk-carton-rolling sex scene remains a classic, and you can see how Thompson’s combo of directness and frailty was key in shaping the Curtis template, which combines stock tropes with an understated naturalism. Emma Thompson's best films – ranked! 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z The octogenarian Icahn anchors this deft pocket biography, with his appealing directness and dead-level stare, as he presides at the office and around the house. ‘Icahn: The Restless Billionaire’ Review: Right on the Money 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z With Harper’s Bazaar, I was struck by its confidence, clarity and directness. Big Sisters 2010-08-20T21:20:00Z They also have an unsparing emotional directness — albeit one that Brahms reveals with characteristic, uneasy ambivalence. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z By comparison, the veteran bands didn’t bother trying to be wry and were more appealing for their directness. Music Review: Dancing Under the Sky 2013-07-22T22:01:52Z There's an admirable efficiency and directness about American Slang, which dispatches 10 songs in barely half an hour. The Gaslight Anthem: American Slang 2010-06-10T14:31:00Z Ms. Magnicaballi, as Terpsichore, led the three muses with excellent directness and simplicity. Dance Review | Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Celebrating the Genius of Balanchine by Viewing It With Fresh Eyes 2010-03-08T06:32:00Z It sets out a slow, electronic R&B groove for a detailed put-down addressed to a boyfriend’s ex: “I know you feel he may be coming back to you,” Dawn sings with vicious directness. The Playlist: Thom Yorke’s Chilling Ballad, and 13 More New Songs 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z But her singing in this and other works had urgency, directness and affecting allure. Music Review: ‘Venezia, From the Streets to the Palaces,’ at Miller Theater 2012-09-13T22:25:32Z Though it reads with the directness of a children's story, it has deep, underlying subversiveness, a total upturning of accepted values. Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z The directness of Mr. La Cognata’s approach was at first perplexing, but ultimately, refreshing, Ms. Adams said. ‘In Italy I Kept Meeting Guys’: The Black Women Who Travel for Love 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Most plentiful and least familiar are the “Polka Dots” works, which mine the conventions of postwar sculpture with a directness new to Ms. Bove. What to See in New York City Galleries This Week 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z The novel’s narrator addresses us with the brazen directness of our own moment’s memoirists, though Proust is strangely self-effacing, even his terrifying omniscience grounded in his repeated insistence that he really knows nothing at all. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z Far from a realist, Martin combines graffiti’s childlike directness with abstract expressionism’s spontaneity. In the galleries: A towering exhibit offers a new definition of domestic life 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z She will appreciate my directness and my ambition. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Go get that promotion 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Taddeo’s approach to this problem is to attempt to reconcile desire’s theoretical directness with its twisted reality. Sex in the Mirror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Petite and broad-shouldered, her graying hair combed into a long braid, Perlo radiates directness and no-nonsense energy. Carla Perlo’s secret to success: Getting out of the artists’ way 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z "It was honest, and I responded to that directness." Helen McCrory: 'Attack yourself ? don't get lazy' 2010-06-01T21:00:00Z As always in writing he believed that directness and honesty would carry the day. 'The Story of Charlotte's Web:' How E.B. White conceived and wrote a children's classic 2011-06-29T23:01:06Z That was the small but seismic step Benjamin took in Palimpsests, and the pieces were the gateway to his finding the economy, directness and stark but subtle simplicity he needed to tell stories on stage. A guide to George Benjamin's music 2013-02-25T12:41:11Z But the effort deserves some credit for exposing, with unusual directness and resonance, the gaps created by race, class and nationality in an art gallery, one of the world’s more privileged spaces. Art in Review: Oscar Murillo: ‘A Mercantile Novel’ 2014-05-09T01:31:09Z Young readers crave emotional directness, and they appreciate a little buildup and suspense. Chelsea Clinton’s ‘It’s Your World’ 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z First, he played with the structure, jumping in before the beginning of the eight bars, telegraphing emotional directness and urgency: “Fiiiiiiinallyyyydoingggggbettttterrrrr.” How Big Can a TikTok Duet Get? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z There’s an unguarded directness to these translations, for better or worse. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2010-06-27T21:17:00Z This directness of approach also kept the late quartet in communion with the two early quartets, Op 18 Nos 6 and 3, performed in the first half with the same poised motion and honeyed tone. Artemis Quartet - review 2011-01-23T18:18:53Z There is “no full human dignity and personhood possible for women until we demand the control over our own bodies,” she insisted. Her audience was sympathetic but unprepared for such directness. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z But Kelsey, keeping with the production’s directness, audaciously crosses the line, bullying the count, even slapping him on the back of his head. Review: Amid Omicron, the Met Opera Opens a Weimar ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z But he was at his most affecting in a group of undated songs by Ilse Weber, an author of children’s books and an amateur composer who wrote with disarming directness. Music Review: ?The Music of Terezin? at 92nd Street Y 2012-01-20T23:54:05Z The directness of the question, from a stranger, shook me. Are You My Husband? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z In a novel, ideas are wrought back to the directness of sense. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z It seems to be pretty good for an 18-year-old, in fact, indicative in its directness and lack of pretense of the direction his future work will take. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book 4’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Sometimes the desired balance of directness and intricacy is achieved by the choice of subject, as in Luckain Innocent’s depiction of an elaborate pink house with ornate white railings. In the galleries: Unfinished works at Target Gallery 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z His sensitivity and directness are matched by his partner at the piano. Classical Playlist: Puccini, Messiaen, Schubert and More 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z They verge on didactic except for the visual richness and emotional directness with which they examine their entwined subjects. Parenting While Black: Titus Kaphar’s Starkly Powerful Works 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z It also speaks with a fearless directness that bypasses musical tradition and becomes its own idiom. A guide to György Kurtág's music 2013-03-12T10:13:00Z “I like Ethan’s directness — in his job, and how discombobulated he becomes trying to deal with the women in his life,” Costner says. Kevin Costner at ease on his back porch and in action 2014-02-18T22:38:59Z A graphic novel possesses a directness that a photographer might envy. Jona Frank: Between Reality and Fantasy 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Mike Hadreas’ first two albums as Perfume Genius were defined by their directness. Your week in Seattle music: Chromeo, Big K.R.I.T. and more 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z They floated the long-limbed lines of the polyphony with unaffected directness, while Phillips shaped them in a perfectly understated way, with the Albert Hall's resonance for once adding bloom rather than blur to the textures. Prom 28: Tallis Scholars/Phillips ? review 2011-08-05T10:34:24Z But since it didn’t bluntly aim for offense with as much directness, it didn’t go as viral. A Kobe Bryant Joke Goes Wrong, Revealing Comedy’s Troll Side 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z My father, not one for these sorts of musings, says something that startles me in its directness. In the heart of D.C.’s tony Georgetown, a church that communes with the dead 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z You sense Lucia’s tenaciousness coursing through Ms. Yende’s performance of the mad scene on her latest Sony recording, “Dreams”; even in the character’s delirium there is a chilling directness, even defiance, to her singing. ‘I Could Barely Sing a High C’: Pretty Yende Finally Conquers Lucia 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z “What I like is the juxtaposition of the directness of the sculpture and the indirectness, the coldness, of 3-D animation and computer-generated art.” Special Report: Contemporary Art: The Frenetic World of Yi Zhou 2010-12-01T12:10:00Z It uses swing, blues, virtuosity, cuteness, directness and seldom wanders from a sense of tune. Music Review: Warren Wolf & Wolfpack at 92Y Tribeca - Review 2011-11-17T22:19:55Z The first setup is more of a situation, the second is more of a plot, but both are models of narrative simplicity and directness. A Star Is Born: Josephine Decker 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z But on Friday you could see the expressions on the faces of the singers, and their voices came through with bloom and directness. Review: Zeffirelli’s ‘La Bohème’ Returns, Brighter and Better 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z The persuasiveness of Kafka's narratives is almost entirely an effect of his style, which native German-speakers will assure us is well-nigh unique in German literature for its simplicity, control and directness. Rereading: John Banville on Kafka's other trial 2011-01-14T14:18:55Z The everyday directness of Creevy's songs caught the attention of Orange County's hot underground rock label Burger Records, which released Cherry Glazerr's debut earlier this year. Cherry Glazerr, a fast-rising rock trio, isn't that kind of cute 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Like many of her colleagues, he appreciates Ms. Howard’s directness. She’s Been a Force for Change in Ballet. The World Is Catching Up. 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z It is almost childlike in its directness, and contrasted sharply with Stefan Wolpe's rather overwrought Piece in Two Parts for Six Players. BCMG/Knussen ? review 2011-03-15T18:23:56Z “Yeah, we don’t try to be that subtle!” he laughed when an interviewer questioned his films’ directness in 2015. ‘We’re still fighting that same fight’: how Spike Lee got his groove back with BlacKkKlansman 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Both poems articulate an unflinching directness about the details of his own life and some of those close to him. Poetry in brief 2011-03-26T00:05:32Z Perhaps it's the shock of such un-British directness that makes us reach deep into our pockets, or maybe it's the wicked glint in her eye. BAC at Summerhall ? review 2011-08-25T16:59:54Z Alongside Mackerras's unadorned directness, which always allows the music to speak for itself, it seems overwrought and overbearing. Suk: Asrael; Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem – review 2012-08-02T21:05:00Z As he said at the time with undiplomatic directness, “The murderous consequences seem to me much more linked to the naivety of the Norwegian state than the madness of this crazy person.” Euro crisis? vultures 2012-05-17T15:25:00Z So that Georgina, whether it's because of what the writers have written, or it's because of what I bring to the part, Georgina has this directness that the other characters don't have. Julia Stiles gets Shakespearean again: On murder, betrayal and the powerful women of "Riviera" 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z His simple rhythms and rhymes are asserted with an emotional directness that renders the simplicity trustworthy. Poem of the week: To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe 2010-04-26T09:17:00Z Aibileen answers quietly but with matter-of-fact directness, yes: Her mother was a maid, and her grandmother had been a house slave. | The Help : Spanning Two Southern Worlds, Black and White 2011-08-09T20:24:20Z The confidence and directness he displays make him an underdog worth rooting for. Critic’s Notebook: 2 Chainz Is Hip-Hop’s Rising Star 2012-08-15T22:26:48Z But the directness of the early work has been supplanted by a multifaceted approach. In the galleries: An artist’s past, present and future 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Mr. O’Neal’s portraits of his incarcerated father and younger brother — both in their prison jumpsuits — are tender, and all the more striking for their directness. Art Basel Miami Beach Was Canceled, but the Show Goes On 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Furthermore, could he hire out his services as a letter-writer so that we might all for a modest fee take advantage of his directness and articulacy? George Clooney and the Daily Mail: can the man get any cooler? 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Instead, her singing has a wonderful, uncomplicated directness, utterly free of mannerisms or affectation. Sandrine Piau/Roger Vignoles – review 2012-10-14T15:34:41Z But the movie’s ability to express, with directness and humor, the insecurities of intimacy — most remarkably during the couple’s first night together — is a delight. Review: In ‘My King,’ Blindly Falling Fast and Furious 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z She often uses simple language in elusive ways, though there are occasional flashes of directness: Review: Joan Shelley Offers Celtic-Tinged Melodies 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Gray portrays that great irony in heartbreaking detail and psychological acuity, her language hinging lyrical flight with wry directness. Review | Amelia Gray captures the mind of Isadora Duncan, the mother of modern dance 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Kolker chronicles each woman’s past with brutal directness, coming off as neither snob nor sap. ‘Lost Girls’: real lives behind the lurid headlines 2013-07-19T23:33:44Z But some Beethoven aficionados regard the Missa Solemnis as overblown and prefer the Mass in C for its directness and idiosyncratic power. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival With Martin Fröst and Louis Langrée 2012-08-26T21:35:23Z Still, there was not a sense of directness or intimacy like that achieved by Tenet in its peregrinations, and Trinity’s two quartets, widely separated, lacked a comparable unity and force. Bach’s ‘St. John Passion’ Has More Humanity Than Anti-Semitism 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Still, this work certainly stood out for its directness, textural clarity and generosity of statement. Matthias Pintscher Conducts in the NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Even before comics became stars broadcasting from their bedrooms, they confronted demons with a directness that few other art forms could match. A Year When Death Loomed in the Laughter 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Elsewhere the emphasis is on directness and an unapologetic practicality. A low-key Facebook building? In Gehry's hands, Zuckerberg has it both ways 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z I asked him to do an advice column because I liked his directness and his confidence, but most of all, I liked his emphasis on communication, honesty and, most of all, CONSENT. Stoya’s James Deen bombshell: The porn star’s shocking revelation could change how we talk about consent 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z But I also found myself admiring the directness and confidence with which she expressed her opinions, to anyone who was listening or even just standing nearby. How ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ and My Work Friends Made Me an Honorary Millennial 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z While the drama unfolds with pinpoint directness, the music, a variety pack of Tchaikovsky pieces arranged by Kurt-Heinz Stolze, gives the ballet a patchwork quality. Dance Review: ‘Onegin’ From American Ballet Theater 2013-05-15T20:02:29Z But if her focus was on precision and directness, she sacrificed nothing in energy. Music Review: A Classical Guitarist Making Herself Heard 2011-05-15T21:26:50Z The singers performed with an operatic sound, which made him realize that the piece required voices with the directness of wind instruments. A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z The directness and charming simplicity of these choruses belie the fierce technical and musical challenges that undergird them. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z During this period he developed his mastery of etching and other print media, while his drawings allowed him to achieve a remarkable directness, always working from life and finishing the image in a single sitting. Avigdor Arikha obituary 2010-05-11T18:08:00Z But the honesty and directness of Mr. Nelson’s singing won me over. Music Review: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ at the English National Opera 2012-06-25T22:16:47Z At the age of 33 he has built a profile as a writer of distinctive art songs that show his compositional ingenuity and his knack for pop-inspired directness, all delivered in his smooth, deadpan baritone. A Voice Where Romance and Dysfunction Meet 2011-04-29T18:00:32Z But Noseda is a committed advocate of everything he performs, and the evening retained interest throughout because of the directness and strength of the performances. Prom 37: BBC Philharmonic/Noseda 2010-08-15T11:58:00Z But directness of this kind has a hard time in a market-driven world that favors the convenient slipperiness of ambiguity. The Art of Staying Cool: 10 Can’t-Miss Summer Shows in New York 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Ms. Walker, a native of Jonesboro, Ga., radiates warmth and a matter-of-fact directness. A Union Built in and on Stages 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The texture of her two major novels tends to lushness and formality, more verbal foliage, while her stories are plain-spoken and persuasive for their apparent directness. ‘Let Me Tell You,’ by Shirley Jackson 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z And on Saturday it spoke with a peculiar directness — sharpened by the prospect of the Scottish referendum that could, this week, bring what everybody knows as the United Kingdom to an end. Last Night of the London Proms: A Sonic Potpourri 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z At the fiesta, people went to church then danced in the streets to honour God, so the lofty complexities of baroque fuse with the directness of folk music. Fiesta Criolla/From Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro 2010-08-20T13:50:00Z The songs, performed by Mr. Kahane with plaintive directness, are beautifully, often ingeniously, orchestrated. Music Review: American Composers Orchestra, at Zankel Hall 2012-03-25T21:32:27Z His orchestra is a restless character in the nonstop drama, while the vocal lines have the directness of Debussy or Janacek, rendering the libretto clearly enough to follow without titles. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Elements of light and dark, and of stylized exaggeration and emotional directness, are intermingled in both. Review: ‘Twelfth Night,’ in Two Plays, Blurs Identity 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z A few of the works in these mediums are relatively elaborate, if made with a do-it-yourself directness. Art Review: Emerging Artists at ?Greater New York? at MoMA P.S. 1 2010-05-27T21:27:00Z That “we know you’re watching” gaze is echt Naharin, and its fine calibration of uningratiating directness, more assuming than aggressive, is like a watermark — an aspect that his many imitators struggle to reproduce. Review: Ohad Naharin Is More Than the Sum of His Imitators 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z In a world that tends too often to marginalize classical music and to complicate it, seeing it as something that requires special understanding and embodies special greatness, Noseda brings welcome directness. Review | NSO season opener shows that Noseda isn’t focused on blockbusters, but basics 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z In the beguiling second theme, he played with an affecting blend of aching lyricism and directness, never milking the music for exaggerated expressivity. Music Review: The Met Orchestra Ends Its Season at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-12T22:37:50Z The directness of Sinead Matthews's performance matches the engaging writing, which skitters about fearlessly in several styles but is kept tightly in check by Caroline Steinbeis's cinematic production. A Time to Reap – review 2013-03-05T18:18:34Z During the 1990s the Scottish composer James MacMillan was promoted widely as the brightest hope of his generation: a creator who replaced modernist aridity with communicative directness. Music Review: A New Scottish Concerto, Dressed Up and Dreamy 2011-03-03T21:49:11Z He's influenced a lot by Stravinsky, who is probably my idol, and he has in turn greatly influenced me in his directness, bold colours and harmonic language. The artists' artist: modern composers 2011-08-03T21:29:01Z Like so many others, I had sensed on Clandestino, Manu's first solo album, a passion and directness the like of which I hadn't come across since Bob Marley. Clandestino: the story of Manu Chao's classic album 2013-05-09T17:33:05Z Both were in fine voice and projected the score’s swirling emotional currents with an eloquent directness. Music Review: St. Luke?s Chamber Ensemble in Mahler Program - Review 2011-09-09T22:54:44Z But the group played with an enlivening energy and directness. Music in Review 2011-03-28T23:29:12Z With 16 paintings created over 22 years, the show is an introduction to Mr. Lovelace’s style, which blends the directness of much outsider art with a cogent political awareness and a penchant for allegory. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z “There’s a directness about him, an ease, a humbleness.” Sweet Home California 2010-10-01T14:16:00Z In the “Pathétique,” rather than maximizing the grim drama and intensity of the first movement, he played with sobering directness and fascinating attention to inner details. The Pianist Rafal Blechacz at Zankel Hall 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Still, she sang it with lyrical grace and touching directness. Music Review: Stephanie Blythe and Philharmonic at Avery Fisher - Review 2011-10-02T20:21:48Z This deadpan directness characterizes Maya Kosa and Sergio da Costa’s whimsical hourlong feature about a sanctuary where injured birds are treated before being returned to the wild. ‘Bird Island’ Review: Avian Therapy 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z I think with "Riviera," particularly, maybe not even intentionally, that directness has come out. Julia Stiles gets Shakespearean again: On murder, betrayal and the powerful women of "Riviera" 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z While there’s a lot of avoidance and lying via a lack of directness, “Thirsty Suitors” avoids any extremely toxic situations. I tried a breakup simulator video game. Here’s what it taught me about the myth of 'moving on' 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z But Roberto de Zerbi's side came out for the second half much improved as they attacked with pace and a directness that Marseille struggled to deal with. Late Pedro penalty earns Brighton draw at Marseille 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Known for her directness, the 44-year-old advocate for women’s reproductive rights said she didn’t offer an automatic “yes” when Newsom’s team came calling. California's incoming senator, Laphonza Butler, describes her whirlwind trip into history 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z We went into family therapy together for a little while; we really just started engaging with each other with a lot more transparency and directness and honesty. How a family secret changed Kerry Washington's life 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z After a moment of contemplation as he crouched on the track, the big screen displaying with ruthless directness how close he had come, his mind turned to ensuring that next time it would be different. 'Bronze last year, silver this year - next time, gold' 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z The directness of the language allows Pyle and the writers to nakedly address issues that in an ordinary comedy — not to say, ordinary conversation — would be cloaked in ambiguity and equivocation. Review: 'Strange Planet' is a sweet, cheerful examination of humanity through an alien lens 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z "I have to show everyone what I do when I'm making music in my bedroom because that is me. That is something fans of music will really appreciate, the directness of it." Declan McKenna: 'My new music is my proudest work to date' 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z “I very much appreciate the spirit of candor, openness, directness that everyone has exhibited. That is the way ultimately to reach understanding and finally to reach agreement.” US says Armenia and Azerbaijan have made ‘further progress’ toward a peace deal 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z They shut me down: one by avoiding me with an abrupt directness, another by telling me flat out that she didn't want to hear it. Depression is an illness — and it's time we got real about that 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z “It’s the directness and simplicity of the intention that makes it so charmingly disarming.” How 'The Little Mermaid' changed the original's songs — without being 'sacrilegious' 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z The bracing presence of my mother — what she lacked in softness she made up in her clear directness — melted away any ambiguities. L.A. Affairs: I had my reasons for not dating white men. Then something changed 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Xi’s new directness could play well at home with a nationalist audience but risks raising wariness abroad at a time when Beijing has sought to stabilize ties with the West. China’s Leader, With Rare Bluntness, Blames Troubles on U.S. Containment 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z James, who has been England's standout performer at the tournament, was a constant menace and Belgium could not handle her creativity, directness and clever movement. Lionesses thrash Belgium to retain Arnold Clark Cup 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z “And she didn’t even bat an eye ... She appreciated my directness and that I was being reasonable and practical, and they came back with a phenomenal reduction.” Penn Badgley explains why 'You' have fewer kissing and sex scenes this season 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z Its craftsmanship, intricate reliability and directness of purpose engaged his artistic sense. Review | A Montana cowboy, troubled by the violence that ‘won’ the West 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z There’s always something strangely urgent about Tilda Swinton’s performances; she has a way of conveying absolute directness, like there’s absolutely nothing between our eyes and her characters’ souls. ‘The Eternal Daughter’ review: Tilda Swinton is haunting in this elegant ghost story 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Many comment that they aspire to apply the same directness in their own dating lives. Lonely, Single and Over 50? China Has a Game Show for That. 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Bankman-Fried could be charming in private meetings, disarming his audience with his directness and excitement about crypto, said one person who interacted with him. Inside Sam Bankman-Fried’s Quest to Win Friends and Influence People 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z But “Armageddon Time” isn’t a trauma narrative: Moments of warmth and contagious joy suffuse Gray’s memories, especially when it comes to Paul’s maternal grandfather Aaron, portrayed by Anthony Hopkins with avuncular directness. Review | ‘Armageddon Time’: Privilege and punk rock in 1980s Queens 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z He told Marcella with “discomfiting” directness, she recalled in her 2008 memoir, that “he wanted to write, and he wanted to live in Italy.” Marcella Hazan’s Italian cooking legacy endures under husband’s care 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z But the art that has emerged during the protests — illustrations depicting women cutting their hair, for instance — stands out for its directness, Karimi said. Anonymous artist dyes Tehran fountains blood-red during protests 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z It is the directness of this knowledge that differentiates it from all other a posteriori knowledge. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z For example, directness when speaking is common and valued in American business culture, but indirectness is the norm in some other cultures. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Some of the supporting characters do benefit from this heightened emotional directness, and also from the more racially inclusive casting prominent in recent English period dramas from “Bridgerton” to “The Personal History of David Copperfield.” Review: Netflix's Jane Austen adaptation 'Persuasion' is a dreadful film, never to be borne 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Though told with a childlike directness, “Brian and Charles” is not exactly a kid’s movie, and its climax is a bit dark, involving the threat of Charles being consigned to Eddie’s bonfire, out of spite. Review | ‘Brian and Charles’: A sweetly eccentric man/robot buddy dramedy 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Flores, who won four Super Bowls while working on Bill Belichick’s staff in New England before being hired by the Dolphins in 2019, has made an immediate impact with the directness of his message. Flores focused on new job with Steelers, not NFL lawsuit 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z “We take a wide range of factors into account to deliver driving routes — including road size, directness and estimated travel time,” Google emailed in a statement. Perspective | Dangerous driving? Some people think there’s an app for that. 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z Others may have blushed at her directness, but agreed wholeheartedly with the sentiment. Boris Johnson will know his opponents are thwarted, not defeated 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z Colorado athletic director Rick George was impressed with Kliavkoff’s directness when talking with the conference’s football coaches. Commentary: Pac-12 and others must create their own NIL rules if NCAA won’t do its job 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Nabeta has a no-nonsense directness that she leavens with a warm smile. A widow, a warehouse, an urban farm: Questions of justice flare in Bay Area land dispute 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Her head portraits can seem facile, but they have the directness of Édouard Manet’s portraits — stark transitions, bleaching light. Perspective | Venice takes a surreal turn, not for the better 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z She deliberately toned down the directness of the violence to keep focus on the subsequent emotional honesty of the piece. How Céline Sciamma made the film every parent and child should see together 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Here again, however, concerns about appearances should not get in the way of directness. Opinion | The Jan. 6 committee and Merrick Garland must protect our endangered democracy 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Each chew felt like strumming an entirely new set of chords: velvety and heartening, heightened by its directness. I Got Lost in Tokyo Station and Found the Perfect Comfort Food 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z It’s humor meets directness meets really accessible language. ‘Let’s Get Real Bro’: A new card game that gets men talking about mental health 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z She spoke in English, and the directness of her language was disarming. A month in Ukraine: 'All normal life is gone' 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z White cuts through the clotted kingside mess with admirable directness: 28. India to host chess Olympiad after Russia’s bid is nixed 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Justice Jonathan Beach said there was not "sufficient closeness or directness" between the minister's decision and "any reasonably foreseeable" harm from the mine. Australia climate change: Court overturns teenagers' case against minister 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z “With all the agents and other teams, I think there’s a lot more directness in trying to get a deal done sooner rather than later,” Nationals GM Mike Rizzo said. In hot MLB market, patience takes a backseat to action 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z “The people of Ukraine and the government of Ukraine want peace,” he intoned somberly, speaking in a mild tone with the ease and directness of a former television actor. Analysis: Putin’s war imperils global security arrangements 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Shopkeepers in Beijing always bragged about how quickly they identified that I had returned from overseas — something about the directness of my gaze and my unfeminine body language. Perspective | Eileen Gu offers Chinese Americans a hard lesson in the paradox of belonging 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Most recently, Zelensky’s “Servant of the People”-style directness was evident during Friday’s 1½-hour news conference with the international media. Ukraine’s Zelensky’s message is don’t panic. That’s making the West antsy. 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z In his acceptance speech in Canberra, Alcott, who was born with lipomeningocele, a dysraphic condition of the spine, showed the wit and directness for which he is known. ‘He’s Inspired a Nation’: Dylan Alcott Says Goodbye to Tennis 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z But fast forward to 2021 and a speech for Action on Addiction and there is an ease and directness in her words. Duchess of Cambridge: New photos mark Kate's 40th birthday 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z When I listen back to the questions I posed that day there is a directness to them that even now makes me catch my breath. Prince Andrew: Emily Maitlis on the TV interview that is 'critical' to sexual assault case 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z “Her directness does on occasion get her in trouble,” said Lelling, the former U.S. attorney. Rachael Rollins wants to remake the criminal justice system. Republicans have vowed to block her path. 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z She worries whether her directness will jeopardize her ability to secure funding in the future. The pandemic turned them into celebrities. Now scientists are grappling with new power—and internet hate 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z In speeches and news conferences, he speaks about the problem with a directness rare among world leaders. The U.N. chief’s relentless, frustrating pursuit to bring the world together on climate change 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z That has sharpened the dilemma between security and openness for British politicians, many of whom pride themselves on the directness of their contact with local voters. U.K. Leaders Praise Slain Lawmaker Amid Heightened Security Concerns 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Armed with the Swiss accent of his birth and an alarming directness, he had arrived at Astrobotic’s headquarters only to find much of it a construction site—work had been delayed by the pandemic. NASA-funded startups will soon put a fleet of landers on the Moon 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Greene has always been fascinated by the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of role play, especially in commemoration of tragedy, but “Procession” has a particularly bracing directness, a refusal to distance or over-intellectualize pain. Who says Netflix movies are bad? Streamer packs a punch at Telluride Film Festival 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Look, I’ve been through enough s— in life that my feelings can handle some directness. Tiffany Haddish and Oscar Isaac on sex scenes and COVID filming for 'The Card Counter' 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Christie grabbed three assists, Turnbull's range of passing was outstanding, Abada's directness was a joy, and a rare clean sheet will boost confidence. Furuhashi stars as Celtic hammer Dundee 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z His wit, directness and folksy language were put on display as the Bush administration’s most spirited spokesman. Donald H. Rumsfeld, influential but controversial Bush defense secretary, dies at 88 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z All 1,926 pictures are on display in order, documenting the artist’s everyday life with engaging directness. The 1960s didn’t end until the ’80s. So says this art show about painting in D.C. 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Liverpool, meanwhile, are looking like a team again, hanging in there at Old Trafford before imposing a directness and intensity either side of half-time that won them a valuable victory. West Brom v Liverpool: Premier League – live! 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z Prince Philip's legendary "directness" was inherited from his mother, Prince Charles explained with an anecdote. Prince Philip tributes: Royals reflect on the ‘rock in the Queen’s life’ 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z His directness, along with his sense of characters’ subjectivity, felt new in the era following Henry James and Theodore Dreiser. Ken Burns' new Hemingway documentary doesn't give you a reason to read Hemingway 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Many were taken aback by the directness of her purported plea in a letter to "protest against the coup". Myanmar coup: What now for Aung San Suu Kyi? 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z The menu’s directness, he said, is calculated to appeal to the squeamish, spice-phobic palates of some Canadians. A Rare Menu That Tells the Truth: The Pork? Greasy. The Beef? Meh. 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z But even in its crunchy directness, one can detect the familiar ways that war movies have turned long-forgotten sacrifices into an easily stirred patriotism. Death and disillusionment in Latvia mark 'Blizzard of Souls' 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z His eyes match the directness of his voice, which is deep and authoritative, measured and firm. Lose your job, lose your self? How unemployment hits men's self-esteem 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z There's a new directness to their lyrics, not least because Camilla had a lot to get off her chest. How The Staves found their way back to music after grief, doubt and bereavement 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z “There’s an immediacy and directness” to a phone call, Lunnie says, that “actually does have the feeling of collapsing the sense of distance.” At Woolly Mammoth, a ‘play’ you access only by telephone 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Loveless’ songs display her usual directness and fearlessness, but there’s also plenty of vulnerability. Review: Lydia Loveless deals with tough times on ‘Daughter’ 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z In that little meeting, there was directness, there was accountability, there was communication. Perspective | By hiring Peter Laviolette, the Capitals chose a proven winner over guesswork and hope 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z “He does speak with a simplicity and a directness, also sometimes a divisiveness, that is kind of unique.” Ex-diplomat Darroch astounded by UK plan to break Brexit law 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z There are closures, mask requirements, shifting quarantine guidelines, and the classic directness of New Yorkers who now, more than ever, want their city to remain as safe as possible. Food Tourists Trickle In to New York’s Pandemic Dining Scene 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Known for his directness, Mr. Sherwood was an anomaly in the gentlemanly boardrooms of Britain. James Sherwood, shipping executive who revived the Orient Express, dies at 86 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z “Rain on Me” is successful because of its directness and its simplicity. What is the song of summer? Music insiders spin the soundtrack for a once-in-a-lifetime season 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z “I do believe in directness. I can be firm, and I can be compassionate.” Perspective | By hiring Peter Laviolette, the Capitals chose a proven winner over guesswork and hope 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Celebrities who had shunned politics and racial issues have spoken out with uncharacteristic directness. As nation convulses with fiery protests, leaders struggle to address deep racial despair 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z This directness has become a guiding principle for Jordan’s sound. India Jordan: how Tipping the Velvet inspired a joyful dance explosion 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z The mayor prizes certainty, decisiveness and directness, aides and former officials said. He Saw ‘No Proof’ Closures Would Curb Virus. Now He Has De Blasio’s Trust. 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z “Obviously I wanted to win. But with that type of determination, clarity, directness, he was like, ‘We got to be on the same page as I am.’ Pau Gasol gets 'emotional' rewatching Lakers clinch 2010 title 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z They note that the accents may also evoke a directness and steadfastness commonly associated with the city and its dwellers - and that might be comforting in these uncertain times. Pandemic gives megaphone to the oft-maligned New York accent 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z Undoubtedly, it is this truthful directness that has prompted a popular resurgence of the form in the Western World of today. The pro who made a 13 in the Masters and a 9 in the British Open - Golf Digest 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z In a time of global emergency, we need calm, directness and, above all, hard facts. Opinion | Call Trump’s News Conferences What They Are: Propaganda 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Everything made in clay relates to the body in some way, if only because of the physical directness of working with the medium. Review: Coronavirus closed Craft Contemporary's biennial, but it can't stop our love of the art 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z In a short statement rare in its directness, the E.U. expressed deep frustration. Europe blindsided by Trump’s travel restrictions, with many seeing political motive 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Mr. McConnell told colleagues at a lunch in mid-2019 that his personal goal was to “shut down all the competitors,” according to one senator who was surprised at the majority leader’s directness. How the Trump Campaign Took Over the G.O.P. 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z It is personality, too: there’s a conviction, a disarming directness in everything he says. Atlético's Saúl Níguez: 'We know how we can hurt Liverpool' | Sid Lowe 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The directness of La Cognata’s approach was at first perplexing but, ultimately, refreshing, Adams said. ‘In Italy I Kept Meeting Guys’: The Black Women Who Travel for Love 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Their greatest difference was on slavery, and Larson confronts that issue with unflinching directness. Review | Washington and Franklin: Teamwork that made the new nation work 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z He explained: "It's all BS and there is a trail to prove it. The deception is not new. In fact, it is the directness that's startling." Press Watch: Finally, political journalists are sounding the alarm. They must not stop 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z In abstract art, by contrast, Jarrell saw “the terrible aesthetic disadvantages of directness and consistency.” Perspective | It’s one of the most original self-portraits ever painted. And, yes, it’s a lot of yellow. 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Analysts who cover Wells Fargo said they will appreciate directness in a CEO, after years of feeling whipsawed by a sales scandal whose breadth and consequences have taken unexpected turns. New Wells Fargo CEO brings Wall Street swagger to storied bank 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z He bemoaned the directness of some of the women. China’s Seniors, Looking for Love, Head to the Park 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z “What ultimately rescued ‘Cats’ from failure was the directness of its theatrical appeal. Why is 'Cats' such a disaster? Blame the concept-musical curse 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z What ultimately rescued “Cats” from failure was the directness of its theatrical appeal. Commentary: The movie is a wreck, the musical is a joke. Why, then, will we always have 'Cats'? 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z City had few answers to his pace and directness and, on this occasion, Bernardo Silva simply crashed into him from the side. Rashford and Martial give Manchester United derby honours against City 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Honesty and directness set a strong tone for relationships. 5 things to keep in mind when you’re dating after a divorce | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Faced with Rogers’s directness and honesty — too often confused with naivete — Lloyd puts up a flummoxed, fruitless fight. Review | Another movie about Fred Rogers? Yes, and this one feels like an answered prayer. 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Her testimony will also be remembered for her manifest smarts, her directness—a trait of the region where she grew up—her steely self-confidence, and the moral earnestness she displayed. The Extraordinary Impeachment Testimony of Fiona Hill 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z With characteristic directness, he walked up and asked what she was doing with the MacArthur money. A love of insects and their microbial partners helped this biologist reveal secrets of symbiosis 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Trump and Vice President Pence both valued her opinion and Trump liked her directness, Haley wrote. Rex Tillerson denies he tried to undermine Trump, says Nikki Haley was ‘rarely present’ at meetings 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z You write and speak with great clarity and unapologetic directness. Who fights our "forever wars"? Pulitzer-winner C.J. Chivers on the true cost of Iraq and Afghanistan 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z She had clearly sensed that she was fighting a losing battle, and had spoken to the Justices with striking directness about how they could vote against her position—in a limited way. Is the Supreme Court’s Fate in Elena Kagan’s Hands? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Cheh, noted for her directness, told Evans’s lawyers, “Cloaking your public relations campaign in legal jargon does nothing to advance your defense.” Opinion | The D.C. Council needs to decide what to do about Jack Evans 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Korda finally persuaded a friend to intervene, with a directness even she could hear: Get it checked now. Review | A strong-willed wife, her devoted husband and a losing battle with cancer 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Such public directness about labor cost differences between factories is unusual. Peugeot's turnaround driver, Tavares, faces his biggest challenge 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Beyond the directness of talking to your audience, are there any other benefits? All talk: why 2019's best bands speak instead of sing 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z “I think their directness and their pace and the attack is dangerous,” the defender said. Reigning champs Courage brace for Chicago's 'aggressive attack' 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z It fell to the last speaker of the night, the businessman Tom Steyer, to address this question—and he did, with the directness of someone running as an outsider promising to fix a broken system. Some Minor Breakthroughs in the Unprecedented CNN Town Hall on L.G.B.T.Q. Rights 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Rather than lavish drawings, Saar’s sketches read as visual notations jotting down something in the mind’s eye — a kind of memo-to-self, written with the simple directness of a grocery list. Review: At LACMA, Betye Saar's distinctive assemblage art probes American racism 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Another lesson from the factory floor: the ability to speak, with directness and humor, across social barriers. Woman of Steel 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z His testimony was stunning at times in its directness. ‘Robberies, Assaults, Drugs’: Tekashi 69 Testifies Against Former Crew 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z There’s a commercial appeal to the writing, a crowd-pleasing directness that would benefit from a tighter structure. Review: Idina Menzel lights up the sexy-neurotic comedy 'Skintight' at the Geffen Playhouse 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z His pace, directness and finishing were simply too much for Wolves to contain. Richarlison at the double for Everton to snatch late win over Wolves 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Policymakers in Minnesota and elsewhere are grossly negligent if they fail to note that directness and act upon it. Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Teenagers speak with a directness and a moral clarity that is desperately rare in our elected leaders, and perhaps in the adult species as a whole. Dave Eggers: why we should listen to teenagers speak about climate crisis 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z The diction shifts between simple directness and, I think, deliberately thumping ordinariness: “So through life’s long years she stumbles on.” Poem of the week: Story's End by Kathleen Raine 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z But inside its pulsing directness is a dispiriting verisimilitude about how wide the chasm has gotten, and whose hand is strongest. Review: Stéphane Brizé’s French drama 'At War' takes up the gritty cry of the working class 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Rather, the space is cannily organized and aggressively frontal, addressing viewers with effects that range from seductive intricacy to slamming directness. Basquiat’s Memorial to a Young Artist Killed by Police 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z There’s feedback tailored to people with autism, who tend to be quite direct and to appreciate directness in others. 5 years and over 300 applications: For those with autism, landing a tech job ‘like winning the lottery’ | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z With “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” she wanted to stay true to the customs and manners of the past but also speak to audiences with a very modern directness. Céline Sciamma takes the Cannes Film Festival by storm with ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Behind Lauda’s typically Austrian façade of blunt directness, however, was a temperament very different from the one that the Rush screenplay, concerned to set up a duel of opposites, chose to portray. More than a machine: Niki Lauda was an F1 rebel in his own way 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z It’s an open secret in publishing that young-adult fiction has gone viral because card-carrying adults as well as younger folks are drawn to the genre’s purity of emotions and directness of action. Review: 'The Sun Is Also A Star' believes that love is the answer 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z For its formal simplicity and directness, ‘Rafiki’ is a small revelation, not least because it marks the breakthrough of a filmmaker of such exhilarating, cheerfully courageous vision.” Indie Focus: A new look at the Manson girls in ‘Charlie Says’ 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z For its formal simplicity and directness, “Rafiki” is a small revelation, not least because it marks the breakthrough of a filmmaker of such exhilarating, cheerfully courageous vision. Review | Movie about teenage girls in love is a breakthrough for Kenyan filmmaker 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z With the White House now typified by fake news, hate, turbulence and confusion, she remains the much-needed antidote to Trump – genuine, progressive and stabilising, with her no-nonsense directness and transparency. All hail Michelle Obama: like Beyoncé, she has fully upstaged her husband | Yomi Adegoke 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z In the resulting book, the lives of two generations bound by violence and trauma are explored with disarming clarity and directness. The big picture: the Rwandan Daughters project 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z “These are dedicated, hardworking public servants who bring a directness and integrity to their service … They’re being open about who they are.” LGBT progress seen in Lightfoot’s win, rise of ‘Mayor Pete’ 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z He just has a matter-of-fact directness that is arresting, but also honest and refreshing. ‘Everyone dies, honestly’: Free Solo’s Alex Honnold on rock-climbing without ropes 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z It’s his Brooklyn-born directness about our current national circumstance and his fiery analysis connecting the continued blindness to the week-to-week struggle most Americans have making ends meet and the ownership of the news media. As Amazon wildfire spreads to Virginia & Nashville Bernie Sanders' economic realism is worth a look 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z McCabe’s book speaks with bracing directness about what was going on and why it matters. Andrew McCabe’s Countdown to the Mueller Report 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z On occasion such an arrangement leads to images whose directness displeases the authorities, but a more common outcome has been that proximity to an army helps bolster the narrative preferred by the army. When the Camera Was a Weapon of Imperialism. (And When It Still Is.) 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Everything they did was to maximise a kind of directness, economy, clarity. Bauhaus at 100: what it means to me by Norman Foster, Margaret Howell and others 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z The offer was absurd in its directness and so I didn’t think he was completely serious. Perspective | ‘Their job is to scare me’: Jason Rezaian describes first terrifying hours inside Iranian prison 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z While her critics called her unduly earnest, Oliver herself saw her directness, conversational style and fondness for "old-fashioned" subjects as an asset. Pulitzer-winner Mary Oliver dies aged 83 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Decide which skills you need: logic, persuasion, directness, etc. How to take charge when you are not a take-charge person | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z There is untrammelled aggression in his voice, a directness that leaves spittle on your cheeks, but it is humour, not anger, that is his most devastating weapon. The 50 best albums of 2018: the full list 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z I frankly cannot imagine anyone else in the Democratic caucus doing what she did, including "Chuck" who lacks her directness, purpose, and resoluteness. Pelosi vs. Trump: ‘Don’t Characterize the Strength That I Bring,’ She Says 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Two contrasting philosophies, a clash of styles, possession against directness, attack against defence – all that discussion and, in the end, very little of it meant anything. José Mourinho’s midfield dogs of war yap harmlessly at City ankles | Jonathan Wilson 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z The congresswoman is given to such directness, which Tracey A. Leigh delivers with wonderful crispness. Review: In 'Kings,' a novice politician wears incorruptibility like armor. How many dings can she take? - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z “His technique distinguishes him from many of the other painters who came along in the 1960s with its directness and enormous power.” A New James Rosenquist Exhibition Is as Enigmatic and Bold as the Artist 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Ford spoke with disarming directness and vulnerability, occasionally using the language of research psychology, her field of scholarship. Christine Blasey Ford’s Experience Was Just as Bad as Anita Hill’s—Maybe Worse 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z She described herself as being “terrified,” but it was her resolve, humanity and directness that made such a powerful impression. Republicans have isolated Christine Blasey Ford. It will backfire | Jill Abramson 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Over the years, Ball has heard from many women that she gave them the confidence to run by showing that it was possible to endure such smear tactics with grace and directness, she said. California candidate ‘stunned’ after photos of her in underwear posted online 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z For the next seven years her recordings adhered to the same template of honesty and directness, featuring sympathetic material and first-rate musicians. Aretha Franklin obituary 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z It was the emotional directness and specificity of tone of Danforth’s book that sparked Akhavan, along with its frank depiction of the controversial practice of gay conversion therapy. 'The Miseducation of Cameron Post' and the lessons of the Sundance grand jury prize for Desiree Akhavan 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z In all these essays, his directness both enlightens and illuminates flaws in his own arguments. Ideal witness: a physicist takes on the world 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z “Meredith’s music speaks to you immediately. It has a directness that is so uncanny it transcends the genre.” Unorthodox L.A. opera genius Yuval Sharon arrives on the world stage 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Mbappé’s pace and directness is quite simply frightening; at just 19, he carries a fear factor. Solid, together, Mbappé … five reasons why France are in World Cup final | David Hytner 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z In spite of the directness of its title, “Sharp Objects” unspools slowly. “Sharp Objects” cuts deeply 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Indeed, Brennan’s voice is softer than his face, and different from the streetwise directness of his brother. A Spymaster Steps Out of the Shadows 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z A new recording, “Transcendent,” on the Delos label and featuring the Asia/America New Music Institute, opens with two Aucoin Whitman songs sung with transfixing directness by the baritone Davóne Tines. Before ‘Hamilton,’ 100 years of American music theater and how it’s told the story of who we are 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z He scores goals in club football that fly in with particular directness. World Cup 2018: Marcus Rashford's Glorious Miss 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z The Germans seemed put off by the Mexicans’ pace and directness, but they hit the bar with a shot in the second half and nearly grabbed a point. Germany’s World Cup Is Saved in the Blink of an Eye (and Flick of a Foot) 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z And individual perceptions can vary: Amratia says that she personally encountered directness more often in the United Kingdom than in the United States, but others might not have experienced this. How to fit in when you join a lab abroad 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z "I've never worked with an actor who was more straightforward, who plays her role with more meaning and more directness and more purity of intent," she says by phone from London. Maya Hawke gets into the family business with 'Little Women' 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z “Google is good at finding bike paths,” she says, but it emphasizes brevity and directness over scenery for walkers. Think Biking or Walking to Work Would Take Too Long? Think Again 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Eschewing noisy staples of children's television programming, Rogers valued a slow-paced directness that didn't dodge weighty subjects like death and divorce. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Fred Rogers documentaries hail soft voices behind powerful messages 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z If Silva is the magician, De Bruyne is the relentless force - bringing a directness to City’s attacking play. From Ederson to De Bruyne, players who helped City win title 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z After the meeting, she tried to temper her directness. How to fit in when you join a lab abroad 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z The directness of those titles feels true to the arresting quality of Ramsay's cinema but also somewhat at odds with the feverish elusiveness of her methods. Joaquin Phoenix descends into a hellish New York underworld in the haunting 'You Were Never Really Here' 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Both find space and time most are unaware of, with Silva’s more subtle sorcery complemented by De Bruyne’s greater directness. Liverpool v Manchester City: where Champions League tie could be won or lost 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z These tough-guy mantras express something real in Mattis’s character — an unflinching directness about war’s essence — but they are a little misleading. Can Jim Mattis Hold the Line in Trump’s ‘War Cabinet’? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Mark finally looked up, perhaps surprised by the directness aimed at him. A prisoner is given a deal he can’t refuse in an excerpt from S.J. Morden’s sci-fi novel One Way 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z Veideman, who played 14 years of professional hockey, appreciated Miller’s directness. Ohio State’s Secret Weapon? An Assistant Coach 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z He has praised Putin’s honesty and directness after meeting with him in person and recalled his own campaign aspirations for closer ties. Analysis: Russia-U.S. relations at worst point since Cold War 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z They suddenly bring a degree of directness and intensity to the table. Scotland 25-13 England: Six Nations – as it happened 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Her directness, however, seems to have addled Future. California Sounds: La Luz's resonant surf rock, Tinashe's new track with Future and Itasca's fluid, delicate guitar work 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Her political incorrectness hasn't aged well, but her directness is what has kept her writing compulsively readable. As artists fall into disgrace, must their art be consigned to oblivion? – LA Times 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Under an earlier contract with the Columbia label, Franklin had made records that failed to exploit the gospel-trained emotional directness of her remarkable voice. Rick Hall obituary 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z That simple directness was something she grew to love, Li said, but it was also Zhang’s downfall. As China smothers Xinjiang, even mild critics are silenced 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Honey Sherman, with her energy and directness, was the extrovert of the two, attending meetings and charity events for Baycrest, a Jewish nonprofit and other organizations, friends and former colleagues said. Apotex Founder Barry Sherman Was Driven, Generous...and Litigious 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z I confessed that I cringed whenever she called herself “crippled,” which she does, because she values directness and has a streak of mischief in her. Opinion | Are You Old? Infirm? Then Kindly Disappear 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z It’s not just the directness of her choice that sets her version apart, notes Mason; it is that her approach to the character embraces an ambiguity that the others lack. The Art of Translating Science 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The judges said: "Against the balance and precision of Dezfuli's composition, the directness of Sumaila's gaze is striking and unsettling. The portrait powerfully conveys his loss, solitude and determination." Teenage migrant portrait wins photography prize 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Judges said that, set against the balance and precision of Dezfuli’s composition, “the directness of Sumaila’s gaze is striking and unsettling. The portrait powerfully conveys his loss, solitude and determination.” Image of determined 16-year-old migrant wins Taylor Wessing portrait prize 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z |
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