Sentence examples for forthright version from inspiring English sources

All of that would be more objectionable if it weren't just an amplified — and curiously forthright — version of the haughty games so many restaurants play.

A more forthright version of the same ideas can be found in a short book titled "From Containment to Global Leadership?," which Zalmay Khalilzad, who joined Cheney's team in 1991 and is now special envoy to Afghanistan, published a couple of years into the Clinton Administration, when he was out of government.

The conductor Thomas Hengelbrock presides over a forthright account of the Dresden version of the score, excellently played by Bayreuth's orchestra.

Admirably, the stage version is more forthright in its hints that Sharpay's brother and pet leading man, Ryan (the perky Bobby List), is gay.

Indeed, his version is far more forthright than the movie.

The claim that the official U.S. version provides an honest, forthright accounting is unsustainable.

In his book "Looking at the Dance" (1949), the critic Edwin Denby wrote that Mr. Franklin's dancing "always makes perfect sense; like a true artist, he is completely at the service of the role he takes, and his straight delight in dancing, his forthright presence and openhearted nature give his version of the great classic roles a lyric grace that is fresh and sweet".

This new version of Millennium Prayer sees the forthright black lesbian rappers advocating a bit of sexy time over what sounds remarkably like an old man's brain exploding.

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.

The pianists went back and forth in playing louder or taking a melodic lead, while Mr. Bley just played a more brutal version of himself: he lodged melodic shards into the music, strong and gargly and forthright.

All are commendably forthright.