Sentence examples for could be candid from inspiring English sources

If Velázquez was never cruel in his portraiture, he could be candid.

Interview summaries and transcripts were de-identified so that participants could be candid with their answers and that privacy was maintained.

These discussions could be candid, because they were never leaked.

On the phone, Johnson could be candid, cajoling, flamboyant.

Just as famously, he could be candid and sweet-tempered, and one imagines that over the years more people have been shocked by his good manners than by his bad manners.

He said he was modeling the group after a foreign intelligence advisory board created by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, where those outside of government could be "candid and unsparing in their assessment".

You can be candid.

"I'll be candid with you.

"The fact that he defied his oath and could not have been candid on the application — that's highly problematic, and it stays with you," Mr. Marshall said.

As usual, he was candid.

Those who defend privatization are candid.