So my question, regarding the governor: would this forthrightness eventually backfire?
Now, embarrassed by the EU's forthrightness, ICAO is again promising to come up with something.
Another consideration is that often in politics the losers win, as with Mike Huckabee two years ago he was just a former governor of Arkansas, and now he's a prominent and highly-paid national personality, largely because the humour and forthrightness he showed on the trail appealed to so many people.
Mr Karbaschi may personally be martyr to his own forthrightness, but his courage shows the way for others.
Over the past two weeks, anti-British demonstrations, not seen on the island since the 17th century, have become common.Ms Short, whose forthrightness has frequently landed her in trouble, chose to interpret these protests as evidence of greed.
But he kept an American's forthrightness and tendency to challenge things, and he stayed homesick for America for baseball fields, far horizons, the melancholy scenes of Edward Hopper through the long decades in England.
As an affirmed nationalist, he may be the Japanese politician best able to blend contrition about the past with forthrightness about present-day issues.
But his personal history and his televisual forthrightness are cut from similar cloth.More important, the two men share a common ideology.
The American is the story of a self-made American millionaire, Christopher Newman, whose guilelessness and forthrightness are set in contrast to the arrogance and cunning of a family of French aristocrats, the Bellegardes, whose daughter he unsuccessfully seeks to marry.
He assumed his role with vision and forthrightness, but had the foresight, also, to consider the state of play on his departure.
The forthrightness of his statement at the outset of two weeks of talks between 194 countries has caused consternation among the G77 (the informal alliance of developing nations).
