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Example sentences for "direct statement"

  • Direct statement of character sympathetically influencing us to the author's attitude toward the character.

  • Too much in the way of direct statement or predication is one indication of such purpose, and is therefore more or less ineffectual.

  • Direct statement of character that does not reveal the author's attitude toward the character.

  • Direct statement in which we are made aware of the author's attitude toward the character, but are not affected by it.

  • If a nostrum is worthless, any exploitation must be false and misleading in effect, even though not one single false direct statement is made.

  • Still more exaggerated claims are made for the individual constituents of Casta-Flora, partly by direct statement, partly by inference.

  • These two facts are appreciated by many nostrum exploiters and we find that they have adopted the impressive manner to secure attention, and the platitude to suggest far more than they could defend in direct statement.

  • The Perfect Subjunctive in this use represents a result simply as a fact without reference to the continuance of the act, and therefore corresponds to an Historical Perfect Indicative of direct statement.

  • And on account of the greater strength of direct statement, and so on, there is no refutation.

  • Dialogue, action, and description or direct statement by the author all serve to give the character concerned individuality in the eyes of a reader, but all do not function in precisely the same manner or to precisely the same end.

  • But the art of putting a story together can be studied objectively with profit, and its principles are subject to direct statement.

  • But the principle of fiction technique, that the important event should be emphasized in some way, whether by vividness or expansion, is subject to direct statement and to assimulation from the direct statement.

  • But we have no direct statement either of his birth or the exact time of his death; all we know is that when he left this earth he gave the records and the other sacred things into the hands of his son Jarom.

  • This we have reason to believe, from reading the Book of Mormon, he afterwards did, though we find therein no direct statement on the matter.

  • No direct statement is made of the length of the term that a judge remained in office, but from the historical narrative we gather the idea that he was elected for life or during good conduct.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    direct evidence; direct experiment; direct interest; direct knowledge; direct observation; direct perception; direct pressure; direct reference; direct sunlight; direct taxation; directed against; directed fire; direction from; direction opposite; directions given; directly after; directly contrary; directly elected; directly opposed; directly opposite; kissed her; never intended; other words; that every; thousand pounds; three men