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  • Can I get a flight that goes directly to Los Angeles.
    directly = without going somewhere else first
  • Can I get a direct flight to Los Angeles.
    direct = without having to change planes
  • Let me get directly to the point.
    directly = immediately
  • When he returned, he was to be brought directly to her.   (source)
  • Next morning Winnie went out to the fence directly after breakfast.   (source)
  • Atticus would flee to his office directly after dinner, where if we sometimes looked in on him, we would find him sitting back in his swivel chair reading.   (source)
  • I drove directly to Nick's apartment.   (source)
  • Cruising slowly, he went directly to the right channel, looked back to make sure she'd made the turn, and kept going.   (source)
  • When the Hubermanns made it home, they headed directly to the basement, but it seemed that Max was not there.   (source)
  • I go back to bed for a while and then decide to go directly to his room, but when I try to turn the knob, I find my own bedroom door has been locked from the outside.   (source)
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  • You asked me to come directly to you, Professor, if anyone was wandering around at night, and somebody's been in the library Restricted Section.   (source)
  • She looked like she wanted us all to fill our lips with snuff and go directly to the Tiburon jail and spit on people's shoes.   (source)
  • She left here that day, left this room, and did not go back to her dwelling. I was notified by the Speaker that she had gone directly to the Chief Elder and asked to be released.   (source)
    directly = straight (without delay or interruption)
  • Go directly to the library.   (source)
    directly = immediately
  • After he and the Simmses left Great Faith, they went directly into Strawberry to get the pearl-handled pistol, but when they arrived the mercantile was already closed.   (source)
  • Had he walked in directly, a stranger, the dogs would have made a ruckus, but now when the kennel lights came on there were a few querulous woofs and then silence.   (source)
  • But she doesn't go directly to her seat.   (source)
  • She asked the right questions, got annoyed with doctors when they didn't answer directly, and made sure I had what I needed.   (source)
    directly = immediately; or in a straightforward manner
  • The Griever had altered its course from Alby to head directly for Thomas.   (source)
    directly = immediately
  • I decided not to respond directly to this latest protest of his innocence.   (source)
  • Please come find me directly, Mr. Langdon.   (source)
    directly = in a short time
  • I spun on my heel and went directly to the judge's chambers, and the prosecutors followed me.   (source)
    directly = straight (without delay or interruption)
  • She must go directly to IT.   (source)
    directly = immediately
  • He went directly to the monitor and looked at what was happening.   (source)
  • I try to ignore the strange X on my family's door and make my way directly to the floorboards lining the side of the porch.   (source)
  • I'll come directly back.   (source)
    directly = in a short time
  • Since he had lived his entire life in a manner that was correct and fair, he went directly to heaven, where he met the angel that had appeared in his dream.   (source)
    directly = immediately
  • As I was moving the bone some of the marrow must have escaped into his blood stream and gone directly to his heart and stopped it.   (source)
  • We are going directly.   (source)
  • She posted the data directly to internal servers and composed an e-mail to Dr. Kapoor.   (source)
    directly = straight (without going anywhere else first)
  • In the fall of 1976, when she reached California, she drove directly to the beach and stopped her car.   (source)
    directly = immediately
  • Go directly home, boys and girls.   (source)
    directly = straight (without delay or interruption)
  • Since it's too late for homeroom class, I sprint directly to Mrs. Woodworth's English class.   (source)
    directly = immediately
  • I was sorry now that I had come directly home, because Miss Emma was the last person I wanted to see.   (source)
  • She does not respond directly.   (source)
  • They were herded directly into another room and made to line up single file.   (source)
  • She left to huge applause and the next act came out almost directly after.   (source)
  • PARRIS: Go directly home and speak nothing of unnatural causes.   (source)
    directly = straight (without delay or interruption)
  • He'll be back directly.   (source)
    directly = in a short time
  • We think Mr. Kugler should go directly to a reliable doctor for a medical certificate of ill health, which he can present to the City Hall in Hilversum.   (source)
    directly = immediately
  • Holder walks back into the bedroom with a handful of toiletries and walks directly around Karen, piling them into the bag.   (source)
  • He glanced at the bed, saw it was not rumpled, and then walked directly across to the bathroom door.   (source)
  • Fortunately, I didn't go directly to BUD/S.   (source)
  • My sisters all seemed determined to fly, or in Rachel's case, to ascend to heaven directly through a superior mind-set, but my way was slowly and surely to walk.   (source)
  • He came directly to her from Robert, her brother.   (source)
  • They sent me directly to boot camp.   (source)
  • I used to tell anyone who worked in my research group: “You don't ever have to worry about what I'm thinking. Good or bad, I'll let you know what's in my head.” That meant when I wasn't happy about something, I spoke up, often directly and not always tactfully.   (source)
  • The path took him directly to a rock face, the faint outline of a door barely visible on the surface.   (source)
  • His mind went directly to the free-moving human population, the Fremen.   (source)
    directly = straight (without delay or interruption)
  • But Colton's recent revelation that my raging prayers had ascended directly to heaven—and had received an equally direct response—made me feel like I had some additional confessing to do.   (source)
    directly = immediately
  • Then I had them loaded on to trucks and sent directly to my own factory.   (source)
    directly = straight (without delay or interruption)
  • I thought she looked more mean than hot, but I went directly to the window and opened it.   (source)
    directly = immediately
  • I'll be there directly.   (source)
    directly = in a short time
  • I'd use Typhon as a distraction. Then I'd hit Olympus directly, while the gods were in the West.   (source)
    directly = immediately
  • She walked out of the building and directly onto the team bus, parked just in front of the Walton County jail.   (source)
  • I be down directly.   (source)
  • McWatt set course directly back toward the field.   (source)
  • It would have taken a staff of accountants to figure that out, and a staff of engineers to trace the way it was piped, directly or indirectly, into his office.   (source)
    directly = straight (without going anywhere else first)
  • There were some goods that certain countries still made best, but they went directly by air to their destinations.   (source)
    directly = straight (without delay or interruption)
  • I headed directly for the airport, found a flight aimed at Memphis, bought passage, and was the last to board.   (source)
  • One day in May she came home from school and went directly to her knitting needles.   (source)
  • And when he reached her he had sense to bring his sword smashing down on her wand instead of trying to go for her directly and simply getting made a statue himself for his pains.   (source)
    directly = immediately
  • Three Body will now go directly to the final scene.†   (source)
    directly = straight (without going anywhere else first)
  • My ship was in bad shape, so instead of returning directly to my stronghold, I headed to Joe's Garage, an orbital starship repair shop over in Sector Ten.†   (source)
    directly = immediately
  • Winning bidders should go directly to the table at the north door when I declare the basket to be sold.†   (source)
    directly = straight (without going anywhere else first)
  • Upon arriving, she went directly to the ladies' room and changed into a flowing black-and-gold kimono.†   (source)
    directly = straight (without delay or interruption)
  • After breakfast, we went directly to the funeral home, where we sat as we had the previous day, my father, too.†   (source)
  • He went directly to the phone and dialed the number; the women and I wouldn't leave the hall, although I think we were all unconscious of how very much we had become his audience.†   (source)
  • The route took him directly by the school district offices and that was when he saw Cheddar sitting in the still-hot sun on top of a once green Dumpster at the south side of the parking lot.†   (source)
  • She walked directly toward the temple, and had gone seven or eight steps, and was about to call out the names of the twins, when the bush that lay directly in her path—the one she thought should be closer to the shore—began to break up in front of her, or double itself, or waver, and then fork.†   (source)
    directly = straight (without going anywhere else first)
  • I went to school, then directly home to learn new chess secrets, cleverly concealed advantages, more escape routes.†   (source)
    directly = straight (without delay or interruption)
  • Go directly to the gates!" they commanded.†   (source)
    directly = straight (without going anywhere else first)
  • I've told Alex about my work schedule and we've agreed to meet up at Back Cove directly after my shift, at six o'clock.†   (source)
    directly = immediately
  • I can't come here directly after school.†   (source)
  • What part of "meet the guy you're tutoring directly after school at the public library" did my know-it-all misunderstand?†   (source)
  • Grandma went directly to her room, where she took the shotgun she called Mr. Higgenbottom from its leather case in the back of her closet.†   (source)
    directly = straight (without delay or interruption)
  • Once back in Chicago he went directly to his office.†   (source)
  • Tania noted that while the smiles were sent directly to Ana Maria's phone, Tania's brother was still working on a way to get the frowns to the Central Guatemalan Security Forces.†   (source)
  • Somebody be here directly.†   (source)
    directly = immediately; or in a short time
  • We went directly to the mess hall.†   (source)
    directly = straight (without delay or interruption)
  • I picked up research and history books and went directly to the index and looked up "Mexican."†   (source)
  • Yetta had fallen directly back to sleep.†   (source)
    directly = immediately
  • None the less, directly after midday all the shops were closed and people hid at home.†   (source)
  • Stanchion went directly onto the stage and shook the count's hand, but Threpe didn't seem disappointed in the least.†   (source)
    directly = straight (without delay or interruption)
  • I went directly to Mr. Seufert's office, and he had time to talk to me.†   (source)
  • She hopped down from the high stool at the counter as soon as I walked in and came directly toward me.†   (source)
    directly = immediately
  • Since Fox volunteered to swing into town and pick up the women, Cal went directly to his parents' house, and went early.†   (source)
    directly = straight (without delay or interruption)
  • I went directly to the carport to receive him.†   (source)
  • Again he did not answer directly.†   (source)
    directly = immediately; or in a straightforward manner
  • I considered cutting off the road across the field to go directly to the farmhouse, but then I decided I'd better stick to following the horse tracks, in case.†   (source)
    directly = straight (without going anywhere else first)
  • She reached the Prince's chamber, said good night to the Royal Family, and went directly to the wall display of weaponry.†   (source)
    directly = straight (without delay or interruption)
  • Once inside, I put homework on the back burner and went directly to the media lab, where I combed the Internet trying to find more information on the "Kinghorn Hanging."†   (source)
  • In any event, I had an unfortunate encounter with a pair of ox herders soon after I left the Varden, and I stole this dress directly afterward.†   (source)
    directly = immediately
  • We drove directly to Carson City Hospital, where Moody and I had first met and where we now paced nervously in a waiting room while surgeons conducted exploratory abdominal surgery on my father.†   (source)
    directly = immediately; or straight (without delay or interruption)
  • But he went directly to his study to check his e-mails right after coming home.†   (source)
    directly = straight (without delay or interruption)
  • When our car stopped, a tall slender man with a stern expression on his face came directly over to the window on the passenger side.†   (source)
  • When he arrived at Hazleton Washington, he went directly to the office of the general manager.†   (source)
  • Blackavar and the police guards will be up directly.†   (source)
    directly = immediately; or in a short time
  • In these days Johnnie used to leave the mill in the evening and go directly to the hospital.†   (source)
    directly = straight (without going anywhere else first)
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  • I would like to speak directly to the manager.
    directly = personally (without other people in between)
  • It felt good to sit inside the truck, out of the direct rays of the sun.   (source)
    direct = unobstructed (with nothing in between)
  • After purifying half a pot of water, I place it in direct sunlight and add several egg-size hot stones to the water.   (source)
    direct = without anything in between
  • Yesterday I read an article on blushing by Sis Heyster. It was as if she'd addressed it directly to me.   (source)
    directly = personally (person-to-person)
  • On my return nothing more was to be seen of the first one, it had been blown to pieces by a direct hit.   (source)
    direct = exact
  • Does it fly direct, or will it have to lay over in Minneapolis?   (source)
    direct = without any stops in between
  • Suddenly, Chase turned his head and looked directly at her drifting in her boat.   (source)
    directly = where stated (used for emphasis)
  • When she sat down at the kitchen table, Frau Holtzapfel sat directly in front of her but faced the window.   (source)
    directly = close (without anything in between)
  • Julian looked directly at me.   (source)
    directly = straight (exactly where stated; used for emphasis)
  • "Direct hit," Bob says.   (source)
    direct = exact
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  • I wasn't looking at him directly but at his reflection in the mirror.   (source)
    directly = in a straight line
  • She looked directly into the official's eyes and spoke calmly as if she were giving simple directions to a servant.   (source)
    directly = straight (exactly where stated; used for emphasis)
  • But she kept looking and before long could make out short iron bars bolted into the bank, one below the next, almost directly below her.   (source)
    directly = close, or in a straight line
  • Hassan held the slingshot pointed directly at Assef's face.   (source)
    directly = straight (exactly where stated; used for emphasis)
  • A door in the basement led directly outside, so we never went upstairs.   (source)
    directly = straight (without anything in between)
  • Suburban Ohio neighborhoods never have streets that go in straight lines, so instead he takes the more direct route, through the woods, and makes it there in ten.   (source)
    direct = straight or quick
  • Officer Delinko had clonked directly into one of Curly's earthmoving machines.   (source)
    directly = straight (exactly where stated; used for emphasis)
  • It was coming from directly above the house.   (source)
    directly = in a straight line
  • A few minutes later the plane passed directly overhead.   (source)
  • Experiments have shown that the bees obtain it directly from the body of the queen.   (source)
    directly = straight (without anything in between)
  • I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God.   (source)
    directly = without anything in between
  • "This is the time," she began, looking directly at them, when we acknowledge differences.   (source)
    directly = straight (exactly where stated; used for emphasis)
  • Apparently they didn't like the deep of night, perhaps because it was too cool, and they couldn't take the direct sunlight.   (source)
    direct = unobstructed (with nothing in between)
  • Cause my information come direct from Miz Claire Thompson who seen Mr. Tatum herself.   (source)
    direct = straight (without anything in between)
  • There was a clearing directly in front of her, at the center of which an enormous tree thrust up, its thick roots rumpling the ground ten feet around in every direction.   (source)
    directly = close
  • She said these things to me, when Richard was present. She would not speak directly to him.   (source)
    directly = personally (person-to-person)
  • With trepidation, he allowed Tinder to take the meat directly from his hands.   (source)
    directly = without anything in between
  • Maybe he'd take a direct hit over Leyte and he'd have to eject.   (source)
    direct = exact
  • Like who your best friend is is directly correlated to how close your houses are; who you sit next to in music is all about how close your names are in the alphabet.   (source)
    directly = closely
  • The music grew louder as she passed directly behind the stage.   (source)
    directly = close, or in a straight line
  • Perhaps I cannot strike directly at your son, but the Fates say nothing about what I can do to you.   (source)
    directly = straight (without anything in between)
  • When I nearly agreed to finance that purchase directly through the car dealership with a 21-percent-interest-rate loan, my chaperone blew a gasket and ordered me to call Navy Fed and get a second quote (it was less than half the interest).   (source)
    directly = straight (exactly where stated; used for emphasis)
  • Pepan shrugs, looking Lale directly in the eye.   (source)
  • The road from the rail station led directly to the Holsten Gate.   (source)
    directly = straight (without anything in between)
  • He snatched a vine with both hands and started to climb, directly over the spot where he'd just tied up Alby.   (source)
    directly = straight (in a straight line)
  • After their direct hit, they put on their lights and screeched off.   (source)
    direct = exact
  • One swam directly beneath the raft.   (source)
    directly = in a straight line
  • He spoke directly to me, not Mom or Catherine!   (source)
    directly = personally
  • Directly outside this bulkhead.   (source)
    directly = close
  • Peris finally looked directly at her face, not flinching as she had feared he would.   (source)
    directly = straight (exactly where stated; used for emphasis)
  • If she was asked a direct question, she'd give a brief answer and go back to her guarded smile.   (source)
    direct = asked specifically of that person
  • He would frequently turn his head to look Judge Norton directly in the eye as he spoke.   (source)
    directly = straight (exactly where stated; used for emphasis)
  • Tell him I will be in direct contact with him shortly.   (source)
    direct = personal (with nothing in between)
  • I pick up a gun and a holster and a belt, copying Will, who is directly in front of me.   (source)
    directly = close
  • Finally, Justice Strauss began speaking, and Klaus saw that she was reading directly from the legal book.   (source)
    directly = straight (without anything in between)
  • He finished by shaking salt directly into his mouth.   (source)
    directly = straight (exactly where stated; used for emphasis)
  • On the contrary, she looks directly at them, turning to one side, then the other, looking into their eyes and smiling as if she knows them, as if they have shared grand and special things.   (source)
  • And I found it on page 58, which was directly under page 42 on the KEY TO MAP PAGES and which joined up with page 42.   (source)
    directly = close (without anything in between)
  • He seemed to be looking directly at Calvin as he spoke, and yet Meg was sure that the bland blue eyes could not see, and that someone, something else was looking at Calvin through Charles.   (source)
    directly = straight (exactly where stated) (used for emphasis)
  • I want the icy cold to blow directly on my heart.   (source)
    directly = straight (without anything in between)
  • He saw a catwalk directly ahead of him.   (source)
    directly = close
  • "You shouldn't feel responsible," he said, turning onto his side to look directly into her face.   (source)
    directly = straight (exactly where stated; used for emphasis)
  • The Girl looks directly at me.   (source)
  • It looks like it might be a direct hit on the city.   (source)
    direct = exact
  • It'll withstand a direct hit by a twenty-megaton bomb.   (source)
  • He is directly below her.   (source)
    directly = straight (in a straight line)
  • The Emerald Tablet is a direct passage to the Soul of the World.   (source)
    direct = straight or quick
  • It was too high for me to see directly into the room, but after I made sure that the ground had softened enough so that I could jump without making much noise, I sprang as high as I could.   (source)
    directly = straight (in a straight line)
  • She arrived at the small airport in Lihue, her gear unloaded directly in front of her on slanted steel-covered tables.   (source)
    directly = close
  • Disorientated, Redd's imaginings fizzled and faded, less and less of a threat to Alyss, whose abilities seemed to be increasing in direct proportion to her confidence.   (source)
    direct = exact (used for emphasis)
  • NASA's been limiting direct contact.   (source)
    direct = without anyone in between
  • Across the top of the flyer writ in big black letters were the words LIMITED ENGAGEMENT, then in little letters it said, —Direct from an S.R.O. engagement in New York City.   (source)
    direct = straight (without anything in between)
  • Ben hesitated, then threw the other one more directly at Maya.   (source)
    directly = in a straight line
  • He ran directly toward Sampson.   (source)
    directly = straight (exactly where stated; used for emphasis)
  • Her neighbor directly above her stirred.   (source)
    directly = in a straight line
  • She grabbed my arm and pulled me farther inside, to the one place Golan's gunshots couldn't reach us—directly under the stairs.   (source)
    directly = close, or in a straight line
  • She lifted her chin and looked directly into those searching eyes.   (source)
    directly = straight (exactly where stated; used for emphasis)
  • The sun had begun to set, but half the yard was still in direct sunlight.   (source)
    direct = unobstructed (with nothing in between)
  • Instead, Lakeside installed what was called an ASR-33 Teletype, which was a time-sharing terminal with a direct link to a mainframe computer in downtown Seattle.   (source)
    direct = straight (without anything in between)
  • I can't breathe. I can't— He stares me directly in the eyes.   (source)
    directly = straight (focusing where stated rather than including it as part of a larger focus; or a careful look rather than a quick glance)
  • This was for a direct link.   (source)
    direct = straight (without anything in between)
  • All at once the lights flickering ahead of him merged together, the roar of the forest rose to thunder and a tall bush directly in his path burst into a great fan-shaped flame.   (source)
    directly = exactly where stated (used for emphasis)
  • Carlson worked directly with me and Drew and the other backs.   (source)
    directly = personally (person-to-person)
  • She looked at me directly for the first time.   (source)
    directly = straight (focusing where stated rather than including it as part of a larger focus; or a careful look rather than a quick glance)
  • She paused then, lifted her head from his shoulder, and looked directly at him.   (source)
    directly = straight (exactly where stated; used for emphasis)
  • One of the two women directly behind Hannah smelled of garlic.   (source)
    directly = close
  • Faber, for the first time, raised his eyes and looked directly into Montag's face.   (source)
    directly = straight (exactly where stated; used for emphasis)
  • My attacker, whoever he was, had a hammer and a large wooden stake, the tip of which was pointing directly at my heart!   (source)
  • DANFORTH: Now, then, Mister, will you speak slowly, and directly to the point, for Mr. Cheever's sake.   (source)
    directly = straight (focusing where stated rather than getting off topic)
  • Then suddenly he yelled at the ground, as if he was talking directly to Henrietta.   (source)
    directly = personally (person-to-person)
  • They had swung round now on to a direct homing course so that all that could be seen of them now was the warheads, head-on.   (source)
    direct = straight (along a straight line)
  • They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind.   (source)
    directly = without anything in between
  • I swear it's as though his fingers have a direct line to every sensitive spot on my entire body.   (source)
    direct = unobstructed (with nothing in between)
  • It couldn't take cold or heat or moisture or direct sun.   (source)
  • Directly in front rise two huge pyramids -- the pre-Aztec metropolis of Teotihuacan.   (source)
    directly = close
  • His bedroom is on the second floor and almost directly across from mine and his blinds are almost always open.   (source)
    directly = close, or in a straight line
  • He didn't answer her directly.   (source)
    directly = exactly
  • The blackboard hung directly across from the nursing station.   (source)
    directly = close, or in a straight line
  • I will take your words directly to him.   (source)
    directly = straight (exactly where stated; used for emphasis)
  • I was lucky enough to be positioned directly in the action.   (source)
    directly = exactly where stated (used for emphasis)
  • I'm about to rush the stage, thinking she's having a heart attack, when she suddenly ditches the speech, the page fluttering to the floor, and speaks directly to the microphone.   (source)
    directly = straight (without anything in between)
  • He was staring directly at me.   (source)
    directly = straight (exactly where stated)
  • But directly across from the main square, she saw a long two-story pale yellow building.   (source)
    directly = close, or in a straight line
  • "Don't look directly at it," warned George.   (source)
    directly = straight (focusing where stated rather than including it as part of a larger focus; or a careful look rather than a quick glance)
  • And perhaps Samuel and I will found a new church in our community that has no idols in it whatsoever, in which each person's spirit is encouraged to seek God directly, his belief that this is possible strengthened by us as people who also believe.   (source)
    directly = personally (without anyone in between)
  • Early the next morning, when the halls were clear, he crawled on his belly directly beneath the window of the nurse's station.   (source)
    directly = close, or in a straight line
  • My line of vision was directly ahead.   (source)
    directly = straight (in a straight line)
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  • Did she say that directly or just imply it.
    directly = in a straightforward manner (clean and explicit)
  • She is easy to work with. She is direct in her communications and expectations.
    direct = straightforward (clear and unambiguous)
  • There's grumbling, but no direct defiance.   (source)
    direct = clear, or straightforward
  • Dad whipped us with his belt, but never out of anger, and only if we back-talked or disobeyed a direct order, which was rare.   (source)
    direct = clear and specific
  • The italics used on this page indicate that the language from the referenced email is paraphrased, not directly quoted.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward word-for-word manner
  • She had a large, direct voice. No time to waste. "Komm," she instructed them.   (source)
    direct = clear
  • And I don't know if everyone's still playing the Plague behind his back, because no one ever really told me about it directly, but my point is that it's not like he has a whole lot of other friends he could be hanging out with instead of me.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner
  • I'm not sure about Foxface since direct confrontation isn't her style or her forte.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (clear and uncomplicated)
  • The foolbird sat still for him and he did not look directly at it until he drew the second arrow and aimed and released and missed again.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (clearly without any ambiguity)
  • But she did not speak directly of what the Wallaces had done to the Berrys for, as she explained later, that was something that wavered between the known and the unknown and to mention it outright to anyone outside of those with whom you were closest was not wise.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner
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  • I know she has extreme views at times, and she does tend to express herself in a direct manner.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (open and honest even if it makes someone uncomfortable)
  • Sometimes she answered the reporter's question directly, and other times she looked into the television and exhorted people to come and help.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner
  • At some point, Dr. Singh had told Mom not to ask if I was feeling anxious, so she'd stopped phrasing it as a direct question.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (specific and to the point)
  • The formalities that usually accompanied my prayers—"dear most heavenly father" and "most gracious and everlasting God"—were replaced with very simple, blunt, and direct requests like "Help!" and "Please don't let me die like this."   (source)
  • I decided on a more direct approach.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (uncomplicated)
  • That is a direct order!   (source)
    direct = specific and clear
  • You know, I'm starting to think it's time for more direct action.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (without involving extra factors)
  • And Four doesn't often challenge Eric directly.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (clearly without any ambiguity)
  • This was smart on my mom's part because my brother is the only person who can get my grandfather to stop making a scene because he's really direct about it.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (specific and to the point)
  • But Hammond had approached Wu with a directness Wu never forgot.   (source)
    directness = the quality of being straightforward or clear (without adjusting what is said to spare others' feelings)
  • No, there were three things, and they did not directly concern us—the Finches—but in a way they did.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (an uncomplicated manner before including secondary effects)
  •   "What I mean is it wouldn't do you any harm, you know, if everything about Finny's accident was cleared up and forgotten."
      ...
      I had no idea what Brinker might say or do. Before he had always known and done whatever occurred to him because he was certain that whatever occurred to him was right. ... I was afraid of that simple executive directness now.   (source)
    directness = the quality of being straightforward or clear (without adjusting what is said to spare others' feelings)
  • "So," Martinez said, "we're talking about going directly against NASA's decision?"   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (clearly without any ambiguity)
  • The magistrate spoke to her directly. "I had considered this morning's inquiry merely a formality. I did not expect to find any evidence worthy of carrying to the court. But this is a serious mater. You must explain to us how this child's name came to be written."   (source)
    directly = in a clear, straightforward manner
  • That's the most direct and explicit way of making a point imaginable.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (specific and clear)
  • "Is that your booooy-friend?" Seany asks directly over the receiver.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (open and honest even if it makes someone uncomfortable)
  • He is steeped in sorrow, exhausted, and more direct than he ever was.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (specific and to the point)
  •   "Things were different when I was growing up. Though they probably haven't changed much since then, except in your modern household!"
      This was a direct hit at Mother's modern child-rearing methods,   (source)
    direct = clear
  • The prosecution was too clever to charge him directly, but there were attempts to make him look sick, perverted, criminally insane.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (clearly without any ambiguity)
  • He didn't directly say he loves me, but hearing that word come out of his mouth makes my heart swell in my chest.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward word-for-word manner
  • She'd recovered now: friendly and reasonable, something of her father in her directness.   (source)
    directness = the quality of being straightforward or clear
  • I think I already knew what she was getting at, but for whatever reason, I wanted her to say it directly.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (clearly without any ambiguity)
  • The only reason I am not sentencing you for that is I have no direct proof.   (source)
    direct = clear
  • It seems I must be more direct.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (specific and clear)
  • It was past midnight in early April 2008, and, against all common sense but under direct orders, we were walking into the center of an insurgent hellhole.   (source)
    direct = clear
  • She was so worried about me, but when she asked where I'd been I didn't give her direct answers.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (open and honest)
  • Their policies concerning human rights were outrageous and brought them into direct conflict with the international community.   (source)
    direct = clear
  • For now, we're less interested in all the implications she identifies, and more interested in recognizing that when a writer employs TB directly or indirectly, he's making a statement about the victim of the disease.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (clearly without any ambiguity)
  • He didn't answer me directly.   (source)
  • In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow of foot but always plodding along, always there when you needed him, a believer in the virtues of simplicity and directness and hard labor.   (source)
    directness = the quality of being straightforward or clear
  • And you were a direct challenge to all he knew, all that he held dear.   (source)
    direct = clear
  • I m glad I brought it, Dee said, not directly answering her.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (clearly without any ambiguity)
  • He had asked a direct question.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (specific and clear)
  • Rob's dad never asked directly how things were with Gerald and Angel, but he called every few months, talking of school or baseball or the weather—letting Gerald know that he was around, just in case.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (open and uncomplicated)
  • "They know one another very well, most of them, but they are here for a celebration that is not about them, nor about their relationships with one another, at least not directly," Sarayu explained.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (an uncomplicated manner before including secondary effects)
  • She doesn't answer me directly; instead, she says, "I don't know how the workers at the medical center stand it when they're working on people or delivering babies."   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (clearly without any ambiguity)
  • A direct and simple man in many ways, Pardot Kynes.   (source)
    direct = straightforward
  • But they will answer direct questions, usually with direct answers.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (specific and clear)
  • Nor could I stare directly back at him without seeming too forward.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (open and honest even if it makes someone uncomfortable)
  • Thus direct denial, lying and the revelation of personal affairs are avoided.   (source)
    direct = clear
  • The Reverend Post survived somewhat longer, for he made no direct attempt to compliment the prisoner, but described sympathetically an encounter with him at Lansing.   (source)
  • She would stab herself in the eye before she disobeyed a direct order.   (source)
  • Luma's mother, Sawsan, was emotional and direct, and there was never any doubt about her mood or feelings.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (open and honest)
  • Mattie, more inclined to the direct approach, was throwing rocks the size of potatoes.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (uncomplicated)
  • She was too direct, and to keep up with her he had to pay careful attention to his language.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (specific and to the point)
  • Yossarian was stunned by their overbearing vigor and zeal, by their practical, direct efficiency.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (uncomplicated)
  • As he whipped through the town, it occurred to Ignatius that a more direct approach would be called for.   (source)
  • Often they would face the black employee with this direct question: "Aren't you happy with your situation?"   (source)
    direct = straightforward (specific and to the point)
  • In the months that followed, Barbara's stomach began to swell, and that did seem to be a direct consequence of the events of that tempestuous afternoon.†   (source)
    direct = clear
  • But not yet, not so directly.†   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner
  • A story was direct and simple, allowing nothing to come between herself and her reader—no intermediaries with their private ambitions or incompetence, no pressures of time, no limits on resources.†   (source)
    direct = straightforward
  • Although I would have liked some direct answers to my questions, I learned to not question too much because the answer I got would be lengthy and in the end make me forget the question in the first place.†   (source)
    direct = clear, or straightforward
  • Dany told him what she had done, in his own tongue so the khal would understand her better, her words simple and direct.†   (source)
    direct = straightforward (clear and uncomplicated)
  • He doesn't answer me directly.†   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner
  • It wasn't a direct challenge, but the tone wasn't friendly, either.†   (source)
    direct = clear
  • One need only look at the butlers who attempted to put such an approach into practice, and one will see that their careers - and in some cases they were highly promising careers - came to nothing as a direct consequence.†   (source)
  • Lord, I do admire their direct approach.†   (source)
    direct = straightforward (uncomplicated)
  • But they were tired, and while Kirsten might have been known best for her directness, her stubbornness ran a close second.†   (source)
    directness = the quality of being straightforward or clear
  • The strategy of the NATO countries was a direct consequence of this technological limitation.†   (source)
    direct = clear
  • It's simple and direct, with none of the nonsense about God calling home an angel too young and who are we to question his mysterious ways.†   (source)
    direct = straightforward (clear and uncomplicated)
  • A rock is so much more simple and direct.†   (source)
  • But in nearly four hours of increasingly bitter debate, there was no direct answer to the blunt question posed by Mr. Maclnnis: If the national security is no longer in danger, what is the reason for curtailing the freedom of Canadian citizens?†   (source)
    direct = clear, or straightforward
  • He offered her $200 in cash, plus lunch, for one hour of her time and direct answers to his questions.†   (source)
  • On September 19, against the judgment of most of the British high command, including presumably his brother the general, Lord Howe issued a direct appeal to the people of America, in the form of a proclamation warning that the stubbornness of their representatives in Congress was leading to their downfall and misery.†   (source)
    direct = clear
  • Her directness.†   (source)
    directness = the quality of being straightforward or clear
  • I'm sure that the account of his escape suffered here and there from memory's usual additions and subtractions, and there was no direct way to verify a lot of it -- no way to find the Hutu woman who had saved him at the border, for instance; he never even knew her name.†   (source)
    direct = clear
  • Tipping back her glass, Lee decided to try a more direct approach.†   (source)
    direct = straightforward (uncomplicated)
  • It was her sultry glare, which contained both direct challenge and expectancy, a look of naked invitation like a lascivious lariat thrown around my ears.†   (source)
    direct = clear
  •   "If only I knew how much the operation costs," says he.
      "Have you not asked?"
      "Not directly, I cannot do that—the surgeon might take it amiss and that would not do; he must operate on mother."   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner
  • She's very direct, believes in speaking her mind.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (open and honest even if it makes someone uncomfortable)
  • So that is why I resolved to have no truck with anything which, directly or indirectly, for good reasons or for bad, brings death to anyone or justifies others' putting him to death.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (an uncomplicated manner before including secondary effects)
  • "I've got a sled standing outside now, with twenty fifty-pound sacks of flour on it," Matthewson went on with brutal directness; "so don't let that hinder you."   (source)
    directness = the quality of being straightforward or clear (without adjusting what is said to spare others' feelings)
  • I hoped that this incident might set up some more direct communication between us.   (source)
    direct = open (talkative and unguarded)
  • Again, there was no direct connection between the hound and the man's death.   (source)
    direct = clear
  • I take advantage of the fact that the majority of mankind are led by certain rewards to do things which directly or indirectly tend to my convenience.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (an uncomplicated manner before including secondary effects)
  • It employed thirty thousand men; it supported directly two hundred and fifty thousand people in its neighborhood, and indirectly it supported half a million.   (source)
  • Well, don't say a word, directly or indirectly, about the Asiatic side of the boy's character—his adventures and his prophecy, and so on.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (clearly without any ambiguity)
  • Vronsky stood still and asked directly: "How so?"   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner
  • The directness of this appeal drew the eyes of the whole crowd upon the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale—young clergyman, who had come from one of the great English universities, bringing all the learning of the age into our wild forest land.   (source)
    directness = the quality of being straightforward or clear
  •   "Now," said he, "will you be kind enough to tell me what books you hoped to find in our library and I may perhaps enable you to consult them?"
      My uncle's eyes and mine met. He hesitated. This direct question went to the root of the matter.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (specific and to the point)
  • Am I right in so understanding what you have told me, as that he never referred to her, directly or indirectly, in any way?   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (clearly without any ambiguity)
  • The king, attacked in a manner so direct, did not know what to answer; and he thought that this was the moment for expressing the desire which he was not going to have made until the evening before the fete.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (specific and to the point)
  • It is my way — it always was my way, by instinct — ever to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness.   (source)
    direct = straightforward (clear and uncomplicated)
  • But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain the slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (an uncomplicated manner before including secondary effects)
  • "I'm not going to have any of your horrid New England directness, cousin," said St. Clare, gayly.   (source)
    directness = the quality of being straightforward or clear (without adjusting what is said to spare others' feelings)
  • My election to this trust was repeated every year for ten years, without my ever asking any elector for his vote, or signifying, either directly or indirectly, any desire of being chosen.   (source)
    directly = in a straightforward manner (clearly without any ambiguity)
  • "Here was a man," said Mishka to himself (as he stood in the middle of the sidewalk ignoring the passersby), "who once wrote with such fresh and unsentimental directness that his memories of youth became our memories of youth."†   (source)
  • This death was a direct result of the robbery.†   (source)
  • She might have had the wit to suspect that Owen was reaching toward heaven as a direct result of leaving us alone with our thoughts.†   (source)
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  • All the cameras were pointed directly at her.
    directly = aiming straight
  • Please direct your attention to the north end zone.
    direct = aim or focus
  • Please don't direct your anger toward me.
  • Please direct your question to the appropriate department by selecting one from this list.
    direct = aim or send
  • Connor's shots had been very precise; they were low, and directed at a corner of the crate.   (source)
    directed = aimed
  • Jake Wexler made the emergency telephone call and sent Theo to the lobby to direct the ambulance attendants.   (source)
    direct = give directions to
  • An usher is about to direct us to some seats, but this lady with natural twists gestures toward the front row of the friends' side, right in front of her.   (source)
    direct = guide or point
  • Learning in our family was entirely self-directed: you could learn anything you could teach yourself, after your work was done.   (source)
    directed = guided
  • The reason she was elevated had more to do with the fact that she became disruptive in the younger class. She answered questions directed to other children and called out.   (source)
    directed = aimed (intended for)
  • Latecomers are directed to the adjacent streets, where they can watch the event on screens as it's televised live by the state.   (source)
    directed = sent
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  • On the night of Torrance's church bell miracle, a well-directed flashlight would have revealed Pete's legs dangling from the tree alongside Louie's.   (source)
    directed = aimed
  • "No — don't —" said Harry weakly, but Lockhart was twirling his wand and a second later had directed it straight at Harry's arm.   (source)
  • The beam of the flashlight was directed away from Stanley's eyes and onto Zero, who was sitting on his knees.   (source)
    directed = pointed or focused
  • He directs his gaze at a patch of sand between his feet as he makes this declaration; then he stops talking.   (source)
    directs = aims or focuses
  • "Is August expecting you?" she said, directing her words to Rosaleen.   (source)
    directing = aiming
  • There would be an announcement like that quite soon, he felt certain, and it would be directed mainly at Lily, though her name, of course, would not be mentioned.   (source)
    directed = aimed (intended for)
  • "All right," Papa said, directing us toward the church.   (source)
    directing = guiding
  • The constable swung her up onto his horse and directed Mae to her own saddle.   (source)
    directed = pointed
  • The gardener was able to direct me to the breeder, Osagawa-san.   (source)
    direct = give directions to
  • Instead, I got stuck searching his usernames and variants of them, and ended up meeting a lot of people who weren't my Davis Pickett—the fifty-three-year-old Dave Pickett who was a truck driver in Wisconsin; the Davis Pickett who'd died of ALS after years of posting short blog entries written with the help of eye-tracking software; a Twitter user named dallgoodman whose blog was nothing but vitriolic threats directed at members of Congress.   (source)
    directed = aimed
  • Greeting the Count with a smile, the barber directed him to the empty chair at his side.   (source)
    directed = guided, or sent
  • As my job taught me a little more about America's class divide, it also imbued me with a bit of resentment, directed toward both the wealthy and my own kind.   (source)
    directed = aimed or focused
  • The command is directed at Lale.   (source)
    directed = intended
  • Once he realized the man's anger was directed at the girl and not him, he decided to stay out of it.   (source)
    directed = aimed
  • They should direct their anger at themselves.   (source)
    direct = aim
  • How may I direct your call?   (source)
    direct = guide
  • His voice was a little hard to hear when it was directed at the carpet.   (source)
    directed = pointed or aimed
  • The officers had a spotlight attached to their vehicle, and they directed it at me sitting in my car.   (source)
  • I hope it isn't another article, because I'm not sure I can handle any more hostility directed at me.   (source)
    directed = aimed (intended for)
  • Rasheed, anxious and overly attentive, was holding her elbow, directing her across the yard like a traffic policeman.   (source)
    directing = guiding
  • Then the voice was directed to Meg.   (source)
    directed = aimed (intended for)
  • "Now, Mr. and Mrs. Watson, I'd like to direct your attention to the rear of your classic automobile."   (source)
    direct = point
  • "I direct your attention to two features of this graph," Gennaro said.   (source)
  • "That's despicable," he spat, and she blinked at the anger in his voice—anger that, for once, was not directed at her.   (source)
    directed = focused, aimed, or intended for
  • Reverend Sykes then called on the Lord to bless the sick and the suffering, a procedure no different from our church practice, except Reverend Sykes directed the Deity's attention to several specific cases.   (source)
    directed = pointed
  • His doubts seemed to be directed at me.   (source)
    directed = aimed, or intended for
  • She hears Americans scurry across farm fields, directing their huge cannons at the smoke of Saint-Malo;   (source)
    directing = aiming
  • Dodge glared at the advancing card soldiers, his words directed at Alyss: "We'll keep them busy."   (source)
    directed = aimed, or intended for
  • Though Iris was held in place by five large bolts, the force was directed entirely to a single one.   (source)
    directed = focused or concentrated
  • At first all the anger was directed at both of them [Phillip and Nancy], but time makes things clear and blame is in the right place now.   (source)
    directed = aimed, or intended for
  • Later that fall, Mother began directing her frustrations in more directions.   (source)
    directing = aiming
  • Every ounce of his anger was directed at the man sitting in front of him.   (source)
    directed = aimed, or focused
  • They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.   (source)
    directing = guiding
  • I could feel the rage coming—only this time it wasn't directed at Russ Diver or anybody else.   (source)
    directed = aimed
  • I parked in front of the movie theater and watched one of the teachers direct the children onto the school bus.   (source)
    direct = guide
  • She turned, knowing it was directed at her.   (source)
    directed = aimed (intended for)
  • I asked if he could direct me to Lacks Town, where I planned to look for mailboxes with the name Lacks on them, then knock on doors asking about Henrietta.   (source)
    direct = give directions to
  • Marvin regarded it with cold loathing while his logic circuits chattered with disgust and tinkered with the concept of directing physical violence against it.   (source)
    directing = aiming
  • In some passages I had the strong feeling that the writer was directing her disapproval at me, which is why I finally want to bare my soul to you and defend myself against this attack.   (source)
  • She heard the anger in his voice and assumed it was directed at her.   (source)
    directed = focused
  • His voice is without a doubt directed at me now.   (source)
    directed = aimed, or intended for
  • The question was directed at the third Cyclops, apparently the leader.   (source)
    directed = aimed (intended for)
  • Then, with kindness, Gomez directs Enrique to Carlos Carrasco, the mayor of Las Anonas.   (source)
    directs = indicates to go where stated
  • There was really only one question, and it was asked in a mental voice of utter coldness and pragmatism, the voice of her maternity, a cold and passionless voice once it was directed away from the closed circle of mother and child and out toward Jack.   (source)
    directed = pointed
  • He directed his last words at Saphira.   (source)
    directed = aimed
  • He directed his stride toward the river.   (source)
    directed = steered
  • She must have decided that Sean was the problem because when Sean tried to answer yet another question she'd directed at Michael, she turned on him and said, "I'll interview you later."   (source)
    directed = aimed, or intended for
  • Everything I learned beyond the schoolroom, down from my early years, seems to have directed me to Coronado.   (source)
    directed = guided
  • I didn't want to see those kinds of emotions directed at me.   (source)
    directed = aimed
  • Dad entered the blockhouse, and I directed him to the firing panel after checking the connections.   (source)
    directed = guided
  • But I know how to channel and direct the energy.   (source)
    direct = focus
  • "It's a mausoleum," said Jace, directing a flash of torchlight at it.   (source)
    directing = pointing
  • He directed his words to Mack.   (source)
    directed = aimed
  • Kynes can sit up front with me to direct me.   (source)
    direct = guide
  • I doubt that anyone got the message—certainly not those to whom it was directed.   (source)
    directed = aimed
  • "May I ask you a personal question?" This was directed at Erika.   (source)
    directed = aimed (intended for)
  • He pretends he doesn't care about anything in the world, and he's always ready with some outrageous remark, but if you ask me, any real hostility he has is directed against himself.   (source)
    directed = focused
  • For the most part, his rages in the, past have been directed at authority figures-father, brother, Army sergeant, state parole officer-and have led to violent assaultive behavior on several occasions.   (source)
  • As she spoke she directed her words at Peter, and hoped he could read it as an apology.   (source)
    directed = aimed
  • What is more, any anger I felt at that moment was directed, not against the Kapo, but against my father.   (source)
  • She directed us to the elevators.   (source)
    directed = pointed
  • My skin prickles—that laugh was directed at me.   (source)
    directed = aimed
  • During a heated game outside Atlanta, players and even some parents directed a vulgar racial epithet at Fugees players from the sideline.   (source)
  • (Reaching down into his pants with a rather important gesture) Here, son— (He hands the boy the coin, but his eyes are directed to his wife's.)   (source)
  • The motion of an object in a circle requires that there be a force directed toward the center of the circle (sometimes called a "centripetal force").   (source)
    directed = aimed or focused
  • It was directed at him.   (source)
    directed = aimed, or intended for
  • As the Power grows, its proved friends will also grow; and the Wise, such as you and I, may with patience come at last to direct its courses, to control it.   (source)
    direct = guide
  • I just hoped Ridley was the only one her anger was directed at.   (source)
    directed = aimed
  • He came to where I stood directing the waters of the acequia down the rows of corn.   (source)
    directing = sending
  • At his full range he directed a question to Petra's friend.   (source)
    directed = aimed
  • There were no glances directed at her or at one another.   (source)
    directed = focused, aimed, or intended for
  • This last thought is directed at Eleanor.   (source)
    directed = aimed
  • As pygmies may threaten a giant, so those angry fists were directed against the sky fifty kilometres above his head-against the gleaming silver cloud that was the flagship of the Overlord fleet.   (source)
    directed = aimed or focused
  • Often large quantities of high-energy particles must be directed against the target substance for a sustained period of time before a collision occurs.†   (source)
  • It wasn't directed at us.†   (source)
    directed = aimed, or intended for
  • Then I realized that most of the Sixers' incoming fire seemed to be directed at me and Art3mis.†   (source)
  • I'm the one having scalding hot air directed at my genitals."†   (source)
  • Williams's deepest resentment was not directed at the police, however.†   (source)
  • I stole a glance at Tsalig for reassurance, but he kept his gaze directed downward and wouldn't meet my eyes as we passed by the guards and through the gate.†   (source)
    directed = aimed
  • From my perspective, backstage, the faces in the audience were almost uniformly still, and the attention upon them was not directed toward me; the faces were, at least in part, strangers to me, and—especially in the back rows—smaller than the faces on baseball cards.†   (source)
    directed = aimed or focused
  • No doubting that the irritation was directed at Mrs. Tallis.†   (source)
    directed = aimed, or intended for
  • His words are directed at me, but everyone follows, pushing through the passages as he leads us to the cells.†   (source)
  • With his fingers lightly grasping the bottom of the steering wheel, his gaze directed through the windshield at the garage door, he tells Gogol the story of the train he'd ridden twenty-eight years ago, in October 1961, on his way to visit his grandfather in Jamshedpur.†   (source)
    directed = aimed
  • Lysa Arryn and her half-sane weakling son had not been known at court for their love of wit, especially when it was directed at them.†   (source)
    directed = aimed, or intended for
  • She shivered at the disapproving frown—for once, this was hatred directed at her not because she was a cyborg, but because she was a normal girl, unworthy of the attention of the emperor.†   (source)
  • Funny how the word love directed at me could melt my fury.†   (source)
  • The anger of that huge crowd was directed toward Elizabeth Eckford as she stood alone, in front of Central High, facing the long line of soldiers, with a huge crowd of white people screeching at her back.†   (source)
    directed = aimed or focused
  • When no one volunteered a response, the priest turned to his right as if retroactively directing the question to the Consul.†   (source)
    directing = aiming
  • Carlisle's firm rebuff was directed toward James.†   (source)
    directed = aimed or focused
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  • The sign directed us to turn to the right.
    directed = gave an instruction
  • She directed them to take their seats.
    directed = instructed (gave an instruction or command)
  • The judge directed the jury to ignore the question.
  • Upon reaching New Bedford, we were directed to the house of Mr. Nathan Johnson,   (source)
    directed = given directions
  • "Put your hands on me," he directed, aware that in such anguish The Giver might need reminding.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • On at least two occasions I stopped cases where to my mind the accused was palpably innocent, directing the jury that there was no case.   (source)
    directing = instructing
  • Grandma led me into the bathroom and watched as I washed my hands, then directed me to dry them on the rose-colored towel.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • She put Pepe down first with his bottle, as directed, and when he fell asleep, she put Lupe next to him.   (source)
  • This was exactly like Muggle chess except that the figures were alive, which made it a lot like directing troops in battle.   (source)
    directing = commanding
  • Then, grabbing the only shovels, he handed one to me, holding on to the other himself, and directed Little Man and Christopher-John to each take two buckets.   (source)
    directed = instructed
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  • "A little to the left," Kitty directs.   (source)
    directs = instructs
  • With a nod of understanding, Andrey signaled a waiter, handed him two menus, and directed him to lead the gentlemen to table fourteen.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • With the soundproof divider raised, Teabing was able to phone Silas in the front seat, use the fake French accent of the Teacher, and direct Silas to go straight to Opus Dei.   (source)
    direct = instruct
  • Shay giggled at Tally's heartfelt words, but she wrote them down as directed.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • Before she could say anything, teams of people came to work on us, directing one another so loudly there was no way for us to finish talking.   (source)
    directing = instructing
  • Right three degrees, repeat range. Calm, weary voices directing fire.   (source)
  • We immediately directed Pathfinder to take a panoramic image.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • They don't wait for someone to direct them.   (source)
    direct = instruct
  • We stand at the top of the stairs, giving Haymitch a fifteen-step lead as Effie directed.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • Next came another whistle, and within seconds they had broken up into different subgroups, and each subgroup had a coach directing it.   (source)
    directing = instructing
  • "Stand up," he directs. I look up at him warily, but I do what he says.   (source)
    directs = commands or instructs
  • I did as she directed, and the horses closed in.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • Iraqis who'd been in the house stood around, looking scared to death. Back outside, I hopped into the Hummer and started directing the team back to base.   (source)
    directing = instructing
  • That was his domain, and he directed us all in the planting of useful foods, all to the Glory of God and so forth.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • But eventually he was directed to the governor's mansion, a huge white building, with flags flying in its yard, and there had an audience with the white man in charge.   (source)
    directed = given directions
  • Not that we imagined some trigger-happy Iranian missile director might take a pop at us with some fast heat-seeking weapon.   (source)
    director = someone who gives instructions or commands
  • Mr. Fuller was walking beside the bulldozer, directing the driver.   (source)
    directing = instructing
  • On the way home, we paused often for good-humored exchanges with magazine vendors and butchers, a few cheerful words with the young policemen directing traffic.   (source)
    directing = giving directions to
  • She directed me to stand in one of them and Carter in the other.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • Stay in the car, Nicholas Flamel directed, opening the door and stepping outside onto the short-cropped grass.   (source)
  • If you want to know where to find a jog-toed swallow in springtime, I could direct you to the correct reference title.   (source)
    direct = instruct
  • But if I direct you to touch, that is different.   (source)
  • I would need to direct her explicitly to bring Nobu to the old theater; they wouldn't come upon us there purely by accident.   (source)
  • Blomkvist directed him to Henrik Vanger's newly shovelled courtyard, where he lifted his suitcases on to the cobblestones and watched the taxi head back towards Hedestad.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • Judge Tate did not entirely deny the motion; rather, he did exactly all the law demanded by appointing a commission of three Garden City doctors and directing them to pronounce a verdict upon the mental capacities of the prisoners.   (source)
    directing = instructing
  • As she directed the woman's husband to get behind his wife, holding her upright as she began to push, Lacy felt her pager vibrate at the waistline of her sea-blue scrubs.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • Direct Jake to dump the wheelbarrow.   (source)
    direct = instruct
  • He was confidently directing his team from center midfield, ordering his defense to move up the field in an effort to set up the offsides trap.   (source)
    directing = instructing
  • (Directing her grandson) Mark two cans of cleanser down on the list there.   (source)
    directing = giving instructions or commands
  • But Guitar might be— "I can't let him direct and determine what I do, where I go or when."   (source)
    direct = command
  • 'Be quiet, damn you!' directed Yossarian.   (source)
    directed = commanded
  • 'We'd better keep together,' Rosalind directed.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • In his frame, GRANDFATHER-JACQUES can direct the action, with a finger, like an orchestra leader.   (source)
    direct = give instructions
  • I looked around to see where the shouting was coming from and at whom it was directed.†   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • He almost shouted the last part, but he had no idea where his anger was directed.†   (source)
  • He did not stop by Judge Atlee's office, as directed.†   (source)
  • I conk the frog out with chloroform as directed and dissect it with flair, sticking in the pins.†   (source)
  • I moved in this morning as directed.†   (source)
  • The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others.   (source)
    directed = gave instructions to
  • "Put them in the box, then," Mr. Summers directed.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • Then he was directed to address the court, in his turn.   (source)
  • Once we had passed Hampstead he drew out a large-scale map from his coat-pocket and began directing Maxim to Barnet.   (source)
    directing = giving directions to
  • This vampire ... can, within his range, direct the elements, the storm, the fog, the thunder;   (source)
    direct = command
  • He went about his task without knowing what force directed him, or whose hands and feet were fulfilling its orders. It was not till he led out the sorrel and backed him between the shafts of the sleigh that he once more became conscious of what he was doing.   (source)
    directed = commanded
  • When a crisis comes, as it will do, I will direct how you shall act.   (source)
    direct = instruct
  • The farmer tills the soil, the miner digs in the earth, the weaver tends the loom, the mason carves the stone; the clever man invents, the shrewd man directs, the wise man studies, the inspired man sings—and all the result, the products of the labor of brain and muscle, are gathered into one stupendous stream and poured into their laps!   (source)
    directs = gives instructions or commands
  • "But if you betray me," he said, "if you fail to do as I direct you—"   (source)
    direct = command
  • The porter at the hotel could speak German and English; but the Professor, as a polyglot, questioned him in good Danish, and it was in the same language that that personage directed him to the Museum of Northern Antiquities.   (source)
    directed = gave directions to
  • She took up her position as directed, facing Troy.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • I think it will be conceded by my most disputatious reader, that she could hardly have directed an unfortunate boy to do anything in the wide world more difficult to be done under the circumstances.   (source)
  • And when that functionary appeared before him, he bade him without delay set about making a new leg, and directed the mates to see him supplied with all the studs and joists of jaw-ivory (Sperm Whale) which had thus far been accumulated on the voyage, in order that a careful selection of the stoutest, clearest-grained stuff might be secured.   (source)
    directed = ordered
  • That is well; do as I have directed you, then.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • Early on the third morning I aroused Fritz, and directed him to ascend the rope ladder, and arrange a cord on the sliding door of the dove-cot, by which it could be opened or closed from below.   (source)
  • I retired as directed.   (source)
  • And he'll soon do as I direct him, with some slight coaxing.   (source)
    direct = instruct
  • He therefore appeared before Aunt Chloe with a touchingly subdued, resigned expression, like one who has suffered immeasurable hardships in behalf of a persecuted fellow-creature,—enlarged upon the fact that Missis had directed him to come to Aunt Chloe for whatever might be wanting to make up the balance in his solids and fluids,—and thus unequivocally acknowledged her right and supremacy in the cooking department, and all thereto pertaining.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • ...when I reflect that you are pursuing the same course, exposing yourself to the same dangers which have rendered me what I am, I imagine that you may deduce an apt moral from my tale, one that may direct you if you succeed in your undertaking and console you in case of failure.   (source)
    direct = instruct
  • Elizabeth could not help smiling at his easy manner of directing his friend.   (source)
    directing = instructing
  • "Robert," she directed, "put the pyramid out on the island, if you would."   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • We clean our spaces, as directed, and file obediently toward the door.   (source)
  • Our earth is like a child who has grown up without parents, having no one to guide and direct her.   (source)
    direct = instruct
  • Cressida directs the team to start with me at my old house.   (source)
    directs = instructs
  • I'm lying on her bed directing the packing process.   (source)
    directing = instructing
  • As directed, I turn so they see me in profile, and wait.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • The muscular woman directed me to a pay phone out in the hall.   (source)
    directed = gave directions to
  • Lash your team to the prow and direct them toward Malta.   (source)
    direct = instruct
  • 'Hand me the blankets,' she directed, reaching down.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • 'Get up off the floor and into your bed,' he directed Dunbar through thin lips.   (source)
  • He spoke to Poirot's porter, directing him where to go.   (source)
    directing = instructing
  • He had directed me to make up the bed while he was at dinner, and I did so.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • I directed the conductor to make up my bed whilst I was in the dining-car.   (source)
  • I went through the long drawing-room, as he had directed; a lovely room this, beautifully proportioned, looking out upon the lawns down to the sea.   (source)
  • Frith in his element of course, directing Robert with a lift of his eyebrows, and myself rather hot and flustered with a monstrous silver teapot and kettle that I never knew how to manage.   (source)
    directing = instructing
  • I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with him.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • Having done this, you must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed.   (source)
  • Visited twenty-three hotels as directed, but sorry, to report unable to trace cut sheet of Times.   (source)
  • I was satisfied with his present condition, and directed him to be relieved.   (source)
  • He went on into his own room and found the bottle as he had been directed.   (source)
  • "Certainly, sir," said he, "I had the telegram delivered to Mr. Barrymore exactly as directed."   (source)
  • One of the officers went to the place I directed.   (source)
  • 'Earnshaw,' I continued, 'directs me to wait on myself: I will.'   (source)
    directs = instructs
  • "And will you direct us?" exclaimed the young man.   (source)
    direct = instruct
  • At the Rue Guenegaud she called a cab, and directed the driver to go to the Rue de Harlay.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • I went to bed as usual, taking care that the flowers were placed as Dr. Van Helsing directed, and soon fell asleep.   (source)
  • I found that my landlord had got a letter from the Count, directing him to secure the best place on the coach for me;   (source)
    directing = instructing
  • They were all so frightened and nervous that I directed them to go to the dining room and each have a glass of wine.   (source)
    directed = instructed
  • Goods are delivered in exact accordance with instructions, and keys left in parcel in main hall, as directed.   (source)
  • When I told Mrs. Westenra that Dr. Van Helsing had directed that I should sit up with her, she almost pooh-poohed the idea, pointing out her daughter's renewed strength and excellent spirits.   (source)
  • Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.   (source)
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  • Will you direct the effort.
    direct = be in charge of
  • She is the organization's director.
    director = someone in charge of an organization or project
    standard suffix: The suffix "-or" often converts a verb to a noun that means "a person who."  This is the pattern you see in words like actor, editor, and visitor.
  • She directs our organization.
    directs = is in charge of
  • I'd come to BYU to study music, so that one day I could direct a church choir.   (source)
    direct = supervise (be in charge of)
  • I'm telling you: middle-school directors know all.   (source)
    directors = supervisors (people in charge)
  • Far down the fields toward the river there was a wooden tower about ten feet high where the instructor had stood to direct the senior calisthenics.   (source)
    direct = supervise (be in charge of)
  • We sue for mismanagement by the directors, for unpaid dividends, for violation of the bylaws, for improper issuance of stock.   (source)
    directors = members of a board that oversees the affairs of a corporation or other institution
  • We need someone to direct us and reassure us this is possible.   (source)
    direct = supervise (be in charge of)
  • The choir of a dozen boys and girls moved down below the altar to sing "Silent Night." Irene Cole directed them.   (source)
    directed = conducted (the actions of the person in charge of the performance)
  • One member of the hospital's board of directors, a lawyer named William Hyman, didn't think they were being overly sensitive.   (source)
    board of directors = members of a board that oversees the affairs of a corporation or other institution
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  • After all, the queen doesn't have to be with them to direct a battle.   (source)
    direct = supervise (be in charge of)
  • One of these had been on the Board of Directors for Stovington Preparatory Academy, the old man's favorite charity.   (source)
    board of directors = members of a board that oversees the affairs of a corporation or other institution
  • We blew the door open. I led the way, training and instincts taking over. I cleared the front room, stepped to the side, and started directing traffic.   (source)
    directing = controlling
  • And their summary destruction by the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan caused museum directors and curators all over the world to have about four hemorrhages apiece.   (source)
    directors = supervisors (people in charge)
  • The traffic had increased to the point that Tag had to come down and direct it.   (source)
    direct = control (give instructions to)
  • I was completely peeved at the camp directors.   (source)
    directors = supervisors (people in charge)
  • Kenyon was in my sophomore English class, and I'd directed Nancy in the 'Tom Sawyer' play.   (source)
    directed = supervised (been in charge of a performance)
  • The twelve members of the commission were lawyers, policemen, executive directors of victim's advocacy organizations.   (source)
    directors = supervisors (people in charge or running organizations)
  • I didn't think I should, since I was in Orvieto at the time directing the antiaircraft fire.   (source)
    directing = supervising
  • And the power of directing the common strength is an essential part of the executive authority.†   (source)
    directing = controlling
  • It was O'Brien who was directing everything. ... It was he who decided when Winston should scream with pain, when he should have a respite, when he should be fed, when he should sleep, when the drugs should be pumped into his arm.   (source)
  • She looked at the other three, her glance and voice had that slight suggestion of command in it that comes from having occupied a position of authority. She might have been directing which tennis sets the girls were to play in.   (source)
    directing = supervising
  • Meanwhile Bard took the lead, and ordered things as he wished, though always in the Master's name, and he had a hard task to govern the people and direct the preparations for their protection and housing.   (source)
    direct = supervise (be in charge of)
  •   I answered that certainly it would be most easy, but that we solicitors had a system of agency one for the other, so that local work could be done locally on instruction from any solicitor, so that the client, simply placing himself in the hands of one man, could have his wishes carried out by him without further trouble.
      "But," said he, "I could be at liberty to direct myself. Is it not so?"
      "Of course," I replied, and "Such is often done by men of business, who do not like the whole of their affairs to be known by any one person."   (source)
  • The men had left a long line of hogs in various stages of preparation, and the foreman was directing the feeble efforts of a score or two of clerks and stenographers and office boys to finish up the job and get them into the chilling rooms.   (source)
    directing = supervising
  • So far as I could see, the thing was without a directing Martian at all.   (source)
    directing = controlling
  • Holding by a shroud, Starbuck was standing on the quarter-deck; at every flash of the lightning glancing aloft, to see what additional disaster might have befallen the intricate hamper there; while Stubb and Flask were directing the men in the higher hoisting and firmer lashing of the boats.   (source)
    directing = supervising
  • There must, he says, be a lower class, given up to physical toil and confined to an animal nature; and a higher one thereby acquires leisure and wealth for a more expanded intelligence and improvement, and becomes the directing soul of the lower.   (source)
    directing = controlling
  • Edmund was close to her; he was speaking to her; he was evidently directing her management of the bridle; he had hold of her hand; she saw it, or the imagination supplied what the eye could not reach.   (source)
    directing = guiding
  • They're singers and actors and writers and dancers and directors and poets.†   (source)
  • Pictures of the board of directors.†   (source)
  • After all, it is ourselves that our dreams are about We are the directors, we set up the scenario and play all the roles.†   (source)
  • Mammal was a member of the board of directors of an Iranian pharmaceutical company and this, I found, gave him access to rare items.†   (source)
  • He went into the back and got his rifle from where he kept it hidden from the fragile liberal arts colonists and Dorland's board of directors.†   (source)
  • We look like a group of funeral directors going out for a drink.†   (source)
  • "We're holding a directors' meeting," replied the old sheep.†   (source)
  • Rose quickly becomes convinced that the project's directors will opt for termination.†   (source)
  • On the rare occasions when Eugenides was awake, Eddis talked to him about the harvest, which was good, and about the weather, which was good, and not about her meetings with her ministers, the directors of her mines, the master of the royal forge, or the commanders of her small army, nor about the many diplomatic messages arriving from Sounis and Attolia.†   (source)
  • The chair's held by each of the directors in rotation for a year at a time.†   (source)
  • He was promoted almost at once, made secretary and one of the directors, and he was to stay with the company for the rest of his life.†   (source)
  • You can't defend a nation with a board of directors.†   (source)
  • These problems do not even concern politics alone—for the same basic choice of courage or compliance continually faces us all, whether we fear the anger of constituents, friends, a board of directors or our union, whenever we stand against the flow of opinion on strongly contested issues.†   (source)
  • Even Napoleon, who was directing operations from the rear, had the tip of his tail chipped by a pellet.   (source)
    directing = supervising
  • There's a board of directors.   (source)
    board of directors = members of a board that oversees the affairs of a corporation or other institution
  • He was going to say "future World controllers," but correcting himself, said "future Directors of Hatcheries," instead.   (source)
    directors = supervisors (people in charge)
  • It is a problem of continuously moulding the consciousness both of the directing group and of the larger executive group that lies immediately below it.   (source)
    directing = supervising
  • And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence.   (source)
  • The primary aim of modern warfare (in accordance with the principles of doublethink, this aim is simultaneously recognized and not recognized by the directing brains of the Inner Party) is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.   (source)
  • And whom will you employ to carry the reprieve to the officer directing the execution?   (source)
  • By three, people were being trampled and crushed even in Bishopsgate Street, a couple of hundred yards or more from Liverpool Street station; revolvers were fired, people stabbed, and the policemen who had been sent to direct the traffic, exhausted and infuriated, were breaking the heads of the people they were called out to protect.   (source)
    direct = control (give instructions to)
  • When you drove home after the concert I called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank directors, with the result that you have seen.   (source)
    directors = members of a board that oversees the affairs of a corporation or other institution
  • Mr. Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at present.   (source)
  • Or did a Martian sit within each, ruling, directing, using, much as a man's brain sits and rules in his body?   (source)
    directing = controlling
  • Our reserve of bullion is much larger at present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the directors have had misgivings upon the subject.   (source)
    directors = members of a board that oversees the affairs of a corporation or other institution
  • They were Mr. Fogg's usual partners at whist: Andrew Stuart, an engineer; John Sullivan and Samuel Fallentin, bankers; Thomas Flanagan, a brewer; and Gauthier Ralph, one of the Directors of the Bank of England—all rich and highly respectable personages, even in a club which comprises the princes of English trade and finance.   (source)
    directors = supervisors (people in charge)
  • I wished to leave immediately after the funeral, but Georgiana entreated me to stay till she could get off to London, whither she was now at last invited by her uncle, Mr. Gibson, who had come down to direct his sister's interment and settle the family affairs.   (source)
    direct = supervise (be in charge of)
  • Edmund, between his theatrical and his real part, between Miss Crawford's claims and his own conduct, between love and consistency, was equally unobservant; and Mrs. Norris was too busy in contriving and directing the general little matters of the company, superintending their various dresses with economical expedient, for which nobody thanked her, and saving, with delighted integrity, half a crown here and there to the absent Sir Thomas, to have leisure for watching the behaviour, or…   (source)
    directing = supervising
  • This event had hastened the resolutions of the cardinal; and till the king and he could take the command of the siege of La Rochelle, which was determined, he had sent Monsieur to direct the first operations, and had ordered all the troops he could dispose of to march toward the theater of war.   (source)
    direct = supervise (be in charge of)
  • His stable services were merely a sinecure, and consisted simply in a daily care and inspection, and directing an under-servant in his duties; for Marie St. Clare declared that she could not have any smell of the horses about him when he came near her, and that he must positively not be put to any service that would make him unpleasant to her, as her nervous system was entirely inadequate to any trial of that nature; one snuff of anything disagreeable being, according to her account,…   (source)
    directing = supervising
  • What? private secretary to a minister, plunged at once into European cabals and Parisian intrigues; having kings, and, better still, queens, to protect, parties to unite, elections to direct; making more use of your cabinet with your pen and your telegraph than Napoleon did of his battle-fields with his sword and his victories; possessing five and twenty thousand francs a year, besides your place; a horse, for which Chateau-Renaud offered you four hundred louis, and which you would not…   (source)
    direct = supervise (be in charge of)
  • The lady who built the new part of this house as that tablet records, and whose son overlooks and directs everything here.   (source)
    directs = supervises (is in charge of)
  • The young man looked, bowed in obedience, and then went to Teresa, and invited her to dance in a quadrille directed by the count's daughter.   (source)
    directed = conducted (the actions of the person in charge of the performance)
  • While Mr. Rochester and the other gentlemen directed these alterations, the ladies were running up and down stairs ringing for their maids.   (source)
    directed = supervised
  • Well, then, see, here is a gentleman who had none of these resources at his disposal—a gentleman, only a simple magistrate, who learned more than you with all your police, and who would have saved my crown, if, like you, he had the power of directing a telegraph.   (source)
    directing = controlling
  • I feel as if it were ordained that this man should be associated with all the good which the future may have in store for me, and sometimes it really seems as if his eye was able to see what was to come, and his hand endowed with the power of directing events according to his own will.   (source)
  • You have lived the life of a nun: no doubt you are well drilled in religious forms; — Brocklehurst, who I understand directs Lowood, is a parson, is he not?   (source)
    directs = supervises (is in charge of)
  • When I went to ask M. de Monte Cristo for letters to the directors of the theatres at Rome and Naples, I expressed my fears of travelling as a woman; he perfectly understood them, and undertook to procure for me a man's passport, and two days after I received this, to which I have added with my own hand, 'travelling with his sister.'   (source)
    directors = supervisors (people in charge)
  • "Well, your father's on the board of directors and Henry's one of the staunchest members."†   (source)
  • Traffic directors will race to their computerized stations.†   (source)
  • Nobody on the board of directors even knew about it.†   (source)
  • Are you telling me the forest has a board of directors?†   (source)
  • I also absorbed the complete filmographies of each of his favorite directors.†   (source)
  • He'll know; after all, he's on the Board of Directors.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the board of directors had a rule against pets.†   (source)
  • This is why we convinced the board of directors to hire us!†   (source)
  • Almost all of the executives and directors who had opposed him subsequently left the company.†   (source)
  • For Burnham and the exposition directors, this wave of financial damage was troubling.†   (source)
  • The directors asked for a second report.†   (source)
  • None of the exposition directors or officers had any illusions, however.†   (source)
  • "To out-Eiffel Eiffel" had become a battle cry among the directors.†   (source)
  • The directors sent his proposal out for translation, reviewed it, then graciously turned it down.†   (source)
  • The directors pressured the railroads to lower fares.†   (source)
  • "Me and Cal went up to see one of the tournament directors last week," I said.†   (source)
  • He was voted onto its first board of directors.†   (source)
  • Maybe they got rich uncles--bank directors or railroad magnates or something.†   (source)
  • Crosby knew he could talk the board of directors into footing a big purse for the event.†   (source)
  • If there was music in heaven, they were training their directors and musicians here.†   (source)
  • Howard remained on its board of directors for the rest of his life.†   (source)
  • After six years running his local gang, J. T. was promoted to the board of directors.†   (source)
  • He seems to be one of those nominal finance directors that small companies need.†   (source)
  • There are sound guys, wires, camera guys, directors, gaffers, and a whole bunch of other equipment.†   (source)
  • A particular category of businessmen caught his eye at church: the funeral directors of Appleton.†   (source)
  • "I'll have to remain on Millennium's board of directors."†   (source)
  • "Do I look like I have time to read scripts or go to sets and look over directors' shoulders?†   (source)
  • "The CAI's board of directors evolved along with its philosophy.†   (source)
  • I have no idea what sort of games you're tangled in, you and your Board of Directors.†   (source)
  • He's going to be right up there with the directors of Skandia.†   (source)
  • Well …. because our Board of Directors is to meet next week.†   (source)
  • Two of the Directors resigned; so did the Vice-President in Charge of Operation.†   (source)
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  • Incredibly, both had been from Merovingian families—direct descendants of Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ.†   (source)
  • I had done the direct examination of all of the witnesses and was surprised when I realized that it was already 5:00 P.M. The hearing was going well.†   (source)
  • On direct examination, Seiler asks Williams to explain his relationship with Danny Hansford.†   (source)
  • Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr. L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.†   (source)
  • Maxon knew there were direct descendants of Gregory Illea walking around?†   (source)
  • "The one just admitted into evidence during Mr. Hooks's direct examination.†   (source)
  • He put on a fine show-whispering with Peter, putting his hand on the boy's arm when he got upset, taking copious notes on the direct examination and sharing them with his client.†   (source)
  • These biscuits are direct descendants of honey and almond cakes that were baked in leaves and eaten at Roman fertility rites.†   (source)
  • "I think we have gone outside the scope of direct examination," he said.†   (source)
  • Jake was pleased with his direct examination of Dr. Talbert.†   (source)
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  • They said the Elders hail from the original stock, direct descendants of Remus.†   (source)
  • When Martin was finished with his direct examination, I stood and straightened my tie.†   (source)
  • Similar radical views were advanced by the nihilists of the last century, and a little later by some of Dostoievsky's heroes, and still more recently by their direct descendants, the provincial educated classes, who were often ahead of the capitals because they still were in the habit of going to the root of things while in the capitals such an approach was regarded as obsolete and unfashionable.†   (source)
  • "I might as well start with where Judge Haig left off," I said, beginning the direct examination.†   (source)
  • On re-direct examination, I asked Ralph to acknowledge once again that his trial testimony was false and that he had knowingly put an innocent man on death row.†   (source)
  • "I'm returning to you the exhibit you identified earlier, in direct examination, as your autopsy report, which you've testified accurately reflects your findings and conclusions.†   (source)
  • Their offspring were the first vyes, and these direct descendants were gifted with both the wild spirit of their father and the magic essence of their mother.†   (source)
  • For the remainder of the direct examination, I did not take my eyes off Madison for more than a second or two.†   (source)
  • During eight hours of direct examination, there was not the first cross word, not the first hint of disrespect for the witness.†   (source)
  • They had been rehearsing for two hours and it was almost 10:00 p.m. Jake asked the easy questions on direct examination, and Harry Rex grilled her relentlessly on cross.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Archer and her son and daughter, like every one else in New York, knew who these privileged beings were: the Dagonets of Washington Square, who came of an old English county family allied with the Pitts and Foxes; the Lannings, who had intermarried with the descendants of Count de Grasse, and the van der Luydens, direct descendants of the first Dutch governor of Manhattan, and related by pre-revolutionary marriages to several members of the French and British aristocracy.†   (source)
  • All the Dedlocks, in the direct male line, through a course of time during and beyond which the memory of man goeth not to the contrary, have had the gout.†   (source)
  • It is said that in the early days of our epoch there were a good many people who were hereditarily afflicted with a disease called Idleness, because they were the direct descendants of those who in the bad times used to force other people to work for them—the people, you know, who are called slave-holders or employers of labour in the history books.†   (source)
  • …it would be found that more than a just proportion of the renowned names of the mother-country are, at this hour, to be found in her ci-devant colonies; and it is a fact well known to the few who have wasted sufficient time to become the masters of so unimportant a subject, that the direct descendants of many a failing line, which the policy of England has seen fit to sustain by collateral supporters, are now discharging the simple duties of citizens in the bosom of this republic.†   (source)
  • THE mood of Mason throughout the entire direct examination was that of a restless harrier anxious to be off at the heels of its prey—of a foxhound within the last leap of its kill.†   (source)
  • Though we may be descended in the direct male line from Hector of Troy himself, our mistresses never fail to address us as 'you' if they think it makes queens of them.†   (source)
  • "This fair lady, brother Sancho," replied the curate, "is no less a personage than the heiress in the direct male line of the great kingdom of Micomicon, who has come in search of your master to beg a boon of him, which is that he redress a wrong or injury that a wicked giant has done her; and from the fame as a good knight which your master has acquired far and wide, this princess has come from Guinea to seek him."†   (source)
  • …Juan de Merlo, who went to Burgundy and in the city of Arras fought with the famous lord of Charny, Mosen Pierres by name, and afterwards in the city of Basle with Mosen Enrique de Remesten, coming out of both encounters covered with fame and honour; or adventures and challenges achieved and delivered, also in Burgundy, by the valiant Spaniards Pedro Barba and Gutierre Quixada (of whose family I come in the direct male line), when they vanquished the sons of the Count of San Polo.†   (source)
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