The shameless, egotistical Armstrong is fascinating in a way that a less aggressive, more honest cyclist simply wouldn't have been.
Nevertheless, Echo's reporting has been aggressive and honest, which has been especially important in the past four or five years, as, one by one, the institutions of civil society — the courts, parliament, N.G.O.s, television, and the Russian Orthodox Church — have been co-opted into the body of the state and the direct rule of Vladimir Putin.
"We ran an aggressive but honest campaign," he said.
As deans of journalism schools, we are devoting our working lives to the proposition that honest, aggressive, well-trained reporters and editors will be a powerful force for good in society.
It was pulsating, honest and aggressive, but the final score, 2-2, meanthatat nothing is decided.
It's two-faced and passive aggressive not to be honest enough to say what you want.
As the XFL's pre-opening business marches on, it insists that its credibility will increase and skeptics will discover its football to be an honest, more aggressive version of the N.F.L.'s, with such tweaks as: one foot inbounds for receptions, and no place-kicked extra points, fair catches or knees in the end zone for touchbacks.
Blumenfeld said that running an honest and aggressive campaign that sparked conversation on important issues was a victory itself, regardless of the outcome of the election.
We initially compiled a list of single-word clearly positively and negatively valenced personality traits based on published valence ratings [22], e.g., honest, helpful, aggressive, jealous, etc.
How's this for a passive-aggressive warning to your "honest" friend?
