To ` grow up'I had to quit writing any direct discourse ."
2.
The primary characters, Trotti and the two subalterns with whom he works, employ a more restrained, direct discourse.
3.
In place of direct discourse, he has systematically nominated for deletion a series of templates which I created-- one of which I used in the text of my rebuttal, in fact.
4.
The poem comprises 1, 486 decasyllable verses in 57 assonanced laisses; there is no shorter syllable lines ( found in some of the other " chansons " concerning William ) . 63 % of the lines are in direct discourse, which give this " chanson " a distinctly spoken character.
5.
In current practice, the acronym is not used in direct discourse with the president _ nobody says, " How are you feeling this morning, Potus ? " _ but it is a handy, sassily insidish, behind-his-back reference to the individual in that office, as in " Is Potus in one of those moods where he wants to see teeth on the sidewalk ?"