Sentence examples for confront frankly from inspiring English sources

Gordon Brown's cabinet meetings have never been characterised by a willingness to confront frankly the reasons for his unpopularity.

(Don't seal if off completely or he'll find it hard to breathe).Gruesome practicalities are confronted frankly.

It will not be corrected until it is confronted frankly and fully in defiance of what appears to be wilful blindness and indifference by some on the left.

But that has gradually changed since the two sides were forced to frankly confront the company's problems.

Regrettably, the pleas by Cohen and a few others that judges jettison the concept of "property" and frankly confront the public policy implications of protecting certain kinds of information fell largely on deaf ears.

In seeking to dissolve narrow racial thinking in a new civic virtue, therefore, Mr. Sleeper undercuts his plea for a politics that frankly confronts class, a divisive "interest" if ever there was one.

It's a crucial subject of Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island," which confronts postwar traumas frankly yet tenderly even as it unleashes its demons, the better to exorcise them, long-belatedly, in the light of day.

In another series, "The Gaze," Ms. Wakili examines the stereotype of the sultry Middle Eastern woman, and in her own self-portraits frankly confronts the ambivalent feelings evoked by discarding the veil.

"All of the issues that confront a secretary of defense, frankly … we just did not see enough time spent on discussing those issues," Panetta added.

Many looked upward, eyes still open, as if wishing to confront the afterlife as clearly and frankly as possible.

That encourages directors to talk frankly and raise questions without seeming to confront managers or undermine their authority.