Sentence examples for candid language from inspiring English sources

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O.K, it's tough, candid language.

"The situation is profoundly worrying," said the United Nations official in charge of the relief effort, John Holmes, speaking in unusually candid language for a diplomat.

An American diplomat who attended a meeting with Britain's Prince Andrew, on a trade-promotion visit to Kyrgyzstan, was both captivated and appalled by his forceful behaviour and candid language.

But while his graying rocker's hairdo, his unusually candid language and refreshing talk of change have stirred unaccustomed interest in politics in Japan, widespread disagreement remains over whether Mr. Koizumi can bring about anything more than superficial change.

Mario Lemieux, the part-owner and comeback star of the Pittsburgh team, used unusually candid language to address the issue of his linemate yesterday as the Penguins prepared to play the Buffalo Sabres in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Her column for the Sun on Saturday about asylum seekers leaving North Africa, crossing the Mediterranean by boat and arriving in the EU was full of this candid language, the sort of thing you might expect to hear outside a pub just after closing time.

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In language candid and bald, the cables reveal an assessment of Mr. Putin's Russia as highly centralized, occasionally brutal and all but irretrievably cynical and corrupt.

In language candid and bald, the cables reveal an assessment of Mr Putin's Russia as highly centralized, occasionally brutal and all but irretrievably cynical and corrupt.

In a letter to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Mr. Annan argued in strikingly candid and urgent language that the sort of politically motivated prosecution the United States feared was "highly improbable," that the Americans were putting the entire United Nations peacekeeping system "at risk" and that the proposed American provision "flies in the face of treaty law".

The BBC's political correspondent Ben Wright said "candid" was "diplomatic language for pretty robust".

"In language candid and bald, the cables reveal an assessment of Mr. Putin's Russia as highly centralized, occasionally brutal and all but irretrievably cynical and corrupt," the Times' Chris Chivers wrote last week of the cables from the American embassy in Moscow, released by WikiLeaks.

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