When their identities are hidden, some people turn malicious, and others become candid or disarmingly kind.
Of course, it is common for politicians to become candid the day they lose office.
They're afraid to speak to me by themselves, but when I talk to them in a group, they become candid, even enthusiastic.
But once he had been assured that it was strictly off-the-record, he became candid, almost gossipy, about a number of party leaders.
She then decided, toward the end of her time promoting it, to become more candid.
The Kremlin has become more candid about the severity of their economic condition.
The industry's trade group, the Air Transport Association, has become very candid about the word "profiling," by the way.
And Mr. Bloomberg himself has become more candid in conversations with friends and associates about his interest in running, according to participants in those talks.
Lately, he has become more candid, too: whereas his first autobiographical collection, Writing Home (1994), was relatively discreet about his private life, the second, Untold Stories, 11 years later, was more upfront, to the extent of including family photos.
Once he is on the throne, say his friends, he will become more candid, more free to think the unthinkable, to do necessarily painful things that will upset Germans at large and enrage his allies on the left and in the Green Party for the good of the country.All the same, Mr Schröder's blandness is a mistake.
Ascending rapidly from silent general partner (he was not listed in the team's 2006 media guide), he became a candid and outspoken presence in 2007.
