Sentence examples for forthright without from inspiring English sources

Be forthright, without getting preachy; you can lead by example.

The surgeon was forthright: without open-heart surgery, there was a 50-50 chance my mother would die within two years.

She is forthright without being unnecessarily combative," says Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, for whom Powell worked as shadow childcare minister.

"There is almost an ethical responsibility to be forthright without damaging someone's career," said Marna Hayden, senior vice president for human resources at Nazareth National Bank in Bethlehem, Pa.

Blimey, we've not tackled him, have we?" Of course, he has more monotonous soundbites, constantly referring to his players "putting a shift in", but on the whole he is refreshingly forthright, without the artifice and sense of homework having been done that sometimes tinge Ian Holloway's "mad as a badger" pronouncements.

She was lucid, forthright, without hyperbole conveying a sense of reasoned indignation felt by too many of us, at the unfairness of the present structure.

"Without forthright information from the F.B.I., we are prevented from taking the critical steps needed to protect the American public".

Even without forthright answers from the family, Abusalha was a military-aged male coming back from a country on the edge of a war zone.

Without forthright advice, Barack Obama, like the first President Bush, may find that a faltering economy quickly erodes his widespread popular support.

"He's calling a referendum because the negotiations are stuck and he's shifting the responsibility to us, ordinary people, without being forthright about the consequences of the results and what's at stake," he said.

There is the burnished mahogany sheen the smoke gives the bird, not to mention the rich, evocative flavor of wood smoke, boosting the mild, forthright taste of turkey without camouflaging or overpowering it.