Sentence examples for a forthright attempt from inspiring English sources

Stone's movie can't hope to match the palm-sweating tension of Citizenfour, Laura Poitras's original documentary interview with Snowden – Poitras is played by Melissa Leo here – but it's a forthright attempt to engage with this fascinating, opaque figure and show what it cost him personally.

Based on the comments made by the leadership of the trust, this was a forthright attempt to trade influence against support.

It is a forthright attack on the folly of war.

Acharnians (425 bce; Greek Acharneis) is a forthright attack on the folly of the war.

North Carolina's forthright attempts to deal with its history of this type of discrimination shows these worries are not merely hypothetical.

Yet a forthright sincerity is obvious.

The ALP had generally tended toward a forthright international policy.

The many choruses have a forthright musical vigor.

And Carson delivered a forthright self-diagnosis to Katie Couric.

A great director, a forthright artist, a modest man.

He is also a forthright fan of Bacon.