Which is why it was probably quite unnerving for the bespectacled man looking out of his window at me, a grown man, wobbling in his general direction.

There are already some good signs of progress in this general direction.

He finished unbuttoning his shirt and tossed it in the general direction of a chair, then sat down to unlace his boots.

You know I don't trust those things," Rodenko retorted, gesturing in the general direction of the word processor.