Sentence examples for forthright actions from inspiring English sources

Hamlet sees examples on all sides of those whose forthright actions lead to fatal mistakes or absurd ironies (Laertes, Fortinbras), and indeed his own swift killing of the man he assumes to be Claudius hidden in his mother's chambers turns out to be a mistake for which he realizes heaven will hold him accountable.

Although I am a 40-year veteran of this Academy, I did not participate in its radical, even revolutionary make-things-right behavior since, but I applaud President Tom Sherak and the Board for its brave and forthright actions to right a tilting ship.

Our friend demanded forthright action.

It is time for officials at Rutgers and other universities with top-flight athletic programs to take more forthright action to confront a climate of acceptance for homophobic speech, bullying and physical intimidation.

He was impatient with details, making decisions quickly and preferring action over argument; his natural disposition was probably reinforced by his education, which included training in Zen Buddhism and the Neo-Confucianism of the Chinese philosopher Wang Yang-ming, who espoused sincere convictions and forthright action.

Overall this is efficiently handled YA thriller fare, lacking the interpersonal/political depths of The Hunger Games perhaps (at least in its first instalment) and sharing the clunkiness of Divergent's dialogue (way too much cod-futuristic naming), but generally redeemed by feature first-timer Wes Ball's forthright action sequences.

Artists came to scrutinize and protest the very conditions and institutions under which art is produced, and married the aesthetic charge of their performances to forthright political action.

"Los Angeles, at a sensitive time, wants to know its mayor is on the job, on the spot and, most important, that he is being forthright about his actions and activities".

Not that that should necessarily scupper things, but Ritchie's version – which, according to Peter Bradshaw, abandons "the forthright verities of action and tension … in favour of supposed stylishness" – cleaves too closely to retro complacency.

Ritchie gives us an entertaining, rickety Trabant car chase at the very beginning, but from then on the forthright verities of action and tension are abandoned in favour of supposed stylishness, creamy art direction and uninteresting dialogue, subtitled and otherwise.

You could argue that he builds up a complicity with the audience by his forthright explanations of his actions, and that he wins their sympathy with his wit and drive.