If a direct word is suitable to establish a legacy, it will do so.

Yet the interest lies in seeing the distinction between direct and precatory words being used as a test.

And all without a word, or without a direct word.

So I will tell you in the plainest and most direct words what we found.

There are no direct words to detect the story behind the painting.

He had made it plain, without actually saying a direct word, that money could be raised in exchange for political favors.

However, she did bear a direct word from the Protector.

When his voice came, it delivered direct words.

Without direct word from you, it was hard to know anything.

Young people respond, albeit viscerally, to short, direct words like these.