All 17 Uses of
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Childhood's End
- 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.
Chpt 2 (definition 1) *directed = aimed or focused
- Only once had he taken any direct action against a recalcitrant government.†
Chpt 2 *
- Perhaps he felt the need of direct contact with one human being at least: perhaps he realized that Stormgren needed this form of personal support If this was the explanation, the Secretary-General appreciated it: he did not mind if the Freedom League referred to him contemptuously as "Karellen's office-boy".
Chpt 2 (definition 2)direct = personal or actual (with nothing in between)
- There was not one of his direct subordinates who did not possess much more luxurious quarters, but this place was ample for Stormgren's needs.†
Chpt 3
- The thought of approaching the Supervisor directly filled him with dismay, but there seemed no alternative.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- We believe that sooner or later Earth will have to fight for its independence-but we realize that the struggle can only be by indirect methods such as sabotage and disobedience.
Chpt 3 (definition 3) *indirect = not straightforward (complicated)standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indirect means not and reverses the meaning of direct. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- I'm sure the Overlord's own apparatus won't use anything so crude as an actual physical screen-they'll probably materialize images directly in space.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- The evidence was still indirect, but he accepted it without question.†
Chpt 4 (definition 4)
- In future, all my dealings with Earth will be in-direct and the office of Secretary-General can revert to something resembling its original form.†
Chpt 4
- Direct sunlight was painful to them, and they never stayed in it for more than a few seconds.
Chpt 6 (definition 2) *direct = unobstructed (with nothing in between)
- With the energies of mankind directed into constructive channels, the face of the world had been remade.†
Chpt 6
- Jet reaction, used both directly and in the more subtle form of boundary layer control, drove his flyers forward and held them in the air.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- There were some goods that certain countries still made best, but they went directly by air to their destinations.
Chpt 9 (definition 4) *directly = straight (without delay or interruption)
- We're ruled by a Council of eight directors, representing Production, Power, Social Engineering, Art, Economics, Science, Sport, and Philosophy.†
Chpt 15 (definition 5)
- The chair's held by each of the directors in rotation for a year at a time.†
Chpt 15 (definition 5) *
- Yes, without questioning the child directly.†
Chpt 18 (definition 1)
- In the past, we know, it has attempted to act directly upon the minds of other races, and to influence their cultural development.†
Chpt 23 (definition 1)