Swift, for example, does not directly tell his readers what is of value.

One can tell directly that a man is speaking who has been in woman's society.

An assembly language is a programming language that can be used to directly tell the computer what to do.

"They trust it more than a fiction film because it's a form through which they can directly tell their stories."

At the moment rule number one is that she doesn't do anything I don't directly tell her to.

"I could not tell him these things directly."

"My parents didn't much go in for directly telling me things," Lanchester says with conspicuous understatement.

Perhaps this is because she told very little of her life directly to whites.

Druitt directly tells Ashley in one of the first webisodes that he is her father.