He called for a more forthright, engaged treatment of these basic truths.
While AT&T has been forthright, engaged, responsive, and prompt in its dealing with customers - Apple has seemingly forgotten all of the things that has made it such a loved and respected brand among consumers.
Viola is daring and unusual among contemporary artists in the forthright way he engages with religion.
Stone's movie can't hope to match the palm-sweating tension of Citizenfour, Laura Poitras's original documentary interview with Snowden – Poitras is played by Melissa Leo here – but it's a forthright attempt to engage with this fascinating, opaque figure and show what it cost him personally.
China and Japan have been locked in a renewed dispute over islands in the East China Sea claimed by each side, and the United States has become increasingly forthright in accusing China of engaging in widespread and systematic hacking.
A senior American official close to the talks said that while a significant outcome at the end of this long round was still possible, just the two sides engaging in a forthright and substantive discussion on difficult details had already moved the process forward.
You're never going to mistake him for Peter Ustinov – there are no anecdotes beginning, "So, Zsa Zsa Gabor and I boarded the Orient Express with a case of very fine whisky, a pair of budgerigars and one passport between us… " – but he was engaging and engaged company, forthright and as honest as a rock star will ever be.
"What's most important is that we are engaging in intelligent, honest and forthright discussions," said Maj. T. G. Taylor, Central Command's chief of media.
"Often they'll get engaged in forthright discussions with people, and it's very useful because very quickly the lunacy of their position becomes blatantly transparent, and it's an own goal for them".
Rather than fall hopelessly into endless name-calling and mudslinging like today, ultimately these men engaged in forthright debate and overcame ideological differences that threatened to stop their revolution before it began.
