Sentence examples for candid said from inspiring English sources

It makes it impossible for candidates to be candid, said James O. Freedman, a former president of Dartmouth and of the University of Iowa.

"She was forthcoming and candid," said Mr. Bradford, who is defending the government in the case.

"I found her very candid," said Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

"I'll be really candid," said Col. Eric Mathewson, who directs the Air Force's task force on unmanned aerial systems.

A Democratic leadership aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity to be more candid said, "If the Republicans' lead negotiator says we shouldn't consider Start during a lame duck, I think we have to take him at face value.

Mr. Obama, being polite and politically correct if perhaps not completely candid, said of America's allies' non-pledge of new combat troops, "The trainers we are sending in are no less important than those in direct combat with the Taliban".

Camby was also candid, saying that "there are always methods to get around the test".

The president was refreshingly candid, saying that "where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me".

The veteran third baseman Mike Lowell was more candid, saying he could not understand, in this era of increased scrutiny, how a player could "come close to taking anything that could remotely result in a positive test".

The clichéd heroic/romantic graphics from the Stalin years take a back seat to the earlier avant-garde work, but the photographs of leaders, workers and soldiers King has amassed from the Stalin period, some quite candid, say a lot about the rise and fall of the Communist revolution.

Asked how Rein manages four offices in different countries and maintains any semblance of a company culture, he was candid, saying it's incredibly hard.