be

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
Her manner can be rather direct.
He asked me some very direct questions.

disconcertingly
his disconcertingly direct gaze

refreshingly
a refreshingly direct discussion of the agency's priorities

emotionally
The album is her most emotionally direct work to date.

Direct is used with these nouns:
access, accountability, action, aim, allusion, ancestor, answer, appeal, approach, assault, assistance, association, attack, awareness, bearing, benefit, cause, challenge, channel, command, communication, comparison, competition, competitor, confirmation, conflict, confrontation, connection, consequence, contact, continuation, contradiction, contrast, contravention, control, correlation, correspondence, cost, counterpart, credit, criticism, current, dealings, defiance, democracy, deposit, descendant, descent, dialogue, discrimination, effect, election, encounter, equivalent, evidence, expenditure, experience, exploitation, expression, fashion, feedback, fire, flight, forerunner, funding, gaze, heat, heir, help, hit, imitation, impact, implication, incentive, influence, input, insight, inspiration, instruction, insult, interaction, interest, intervention, investment, involvement, knowledge, line, link, mail, manipulation, marketing, measure, method, negotiation, observation, opposite, opposition, order, outcome, parallel, participation, path, proof, proportion, question, questioning, quotation, quote, recourse, reference, reflection, relation, relationship, relevance, replacement, representation, request, response, responsibility, result, road, role, route, rule, sale, sequel, service, shipment, speech, stake, stimulation, subsidy, sun, sunlight, superior, supervision, supervisor, support, talk, tax, taxation, threat, tie, trade, train, transfer, transition, translation, transmission, violation, vote

Direct is used with these verbs:
dial, mail, order