Sentence examples for about frankness from inspiring English sources

For someone so strict about frankness, he's mild, untroubling company.

Indeed, he seems to love making a virtue out of slamming metaphorical doors in their worried faces, pleased as punch about his frankness.

And legislation focused on a narrower issues, say, the structure and management of the state broadcaster, might have been enacted sooner, avoiding the clash with the EU presidency.The minister should not worry too much about his frankness.

All mention of the tapes was withheld from Sir Michael Peat's report this week into allegations of cover-ups at Prince Charles's household in St James's Palace, raising questions about the frankness of the published inquiry report.

In Somewhere Towards the End, in which she writes with great frankness about sex and about her last affair, with another Caribbean man, which started when she was in her late sixties and ended in her mid-seventies, she says: "Where spouses are concerned, it seems to me that kindness and consideration should be the key words – not loyalty – and sexual infidelity does not necessarily wipe them out".

Along with that has come a greater frankness about what happened and about the ongoing Armenian presence in the country.

Edie, who was the plaintiff in Edith Windsor v. the United States, the case that brought down the Defense of Marriage Act, is a natural-born star who loves to talk to her fans and who, at eighty-four, enchants people with her frankness (about sex, certainly, but about other things, too) and her joie de vivre.

Although we disagree about semantics, I'm increasingly grateful for her frankness about how I got into the world.

To White's credit, he writes with brutal frankness about this, and, more generally, about how political protest as we know it — marches, speeches, slogans, "clicktivism" — has been completely ineffective for decades, and is growing even less so with every passing year.

The appealing qualities of the period's literature — its humor, its frankness about sex and power, its omnivorous curiosity about humanity and the world — can be squandered, by present-day revivalists, amid defunct slang, semicolon dashes, and promiscuous capitalization.

Speaking with Roslyn Sulcas by telephone from Miami Beach, where he was both preparing for the new season and fielding news reports of the company's current fiscal distress, Mr. Villella, 72, spoke with easy humor and frankness about the ballets he is bringing to New York, his thoughts about the Balanchine legacy and — no avoiding the topic — financing.