The phrase "as candid" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the level of honesty or openness of one person or thing to another.
Example: "She was as candid in her interview as she had been in her previous discussions."
Alternatives: "as frank" or "as open".
But he wasn't as candid as Chloe.
I was as candid as possible, trying to get as much information as possible".
But in its diffident way, "Juliet, Naked" is as candid as the unplugged music on "Naked".
You learn to realize the best thing you can do for that person is to be as candid as possible.
A few days later at the Café de Flore, Ms. Alt, as candid as she is unfazed, said: "I don't look back and see clouds anywhere.
Would that I and my colleagues in ordained ministry could be as candid as he was in answering your questions Denver.
That is about as candid as Yeltsin gets in "Midnight Diaries," which focuses most specifically on the last few years of his presidency.
Campaign rhetoric aside, if he's smart, he'll stop mouthing the phrase immediately and be as candid as British foreign secretary David Miliband was in his repudiation of it.
Now, with Ryan as candid as Dr. Ruth, there is an openness to the owner Woody Johnson and to Mike Tannenbaum, the general manager, that didn't exist before publicly.
He said, "I think people who look at the totality of this dialogue will agree that it's probably as sophisticated and as candid a discussion of America in the world as you've seen in any recent Presidential campaign".
I never cared about being viewed as less intellectual than some of my peers (if I did, I probably wouldn't be as candid as I am) so I knew that wasn't it.
