When their identities are hidden, some people turn malicious, and others become candid or disarmingly kind.
"We had very candid discussions, the kind of discussion two friends should be able to have at times like this".
You have been kind and candid, and I thank you for making a new president feel welcome.
The portraits have one common theme: intimacy – O'Neill having bagged the kind of candid shots that we tend not to see of our superstars any more.
George – droll, kind and candid – admits there wasn't much intellectual method to his cultural pilfering: he just stole Indian women's trousers off washing lines.
"The situation is bad, and it is going to get worse over the long haul," said the late-night executive, who asked not to be identified because this kind of candid analysis would be discouraged by network superiors.
He hadn't yet taken down Instagram photographs of birthday cakes and swimming pools, and when he recalled meeting high-level officials he indulged in the kind of candid, if self-flattering, storytelling that most politicians save for their journals.
A central question in the hearings, which coincided with the final day of the Supreme Court's term, is how far Ms. Kagan will go in offering the kind of candid dialogue senators, especially Republicans, are seeking.
That kind of candid, unsparing response, so different from the evasion and obfuscation most politicians habitually deploy in the heat of partisan combat, is the hallmark of the program.
Ten days after "Fear Factor," NBC added "Spy TV," a kind of "Candid Camera" with a mean streak, in which people set up their friends and relatives for embarrassment on hidden cameras.
