Sentence examples for forwardness from inspiring English sources

It gives you this sense of forward looking, of the forwardness of history as well as the backwardness of history, and what a gift to have this new life and to look forward".

It gives you this sense of forward looking, of the forwardness of history as well as the backwardness of history.

So even in 1605, Camden identified a woman's desire to retain her own name on marriage with "ambition", "pertness" and "forwardness".

More conservative 18th-century women might have hesitated to take such a radical step as retaining their name after marriage – Camden's accusations of "ambition" and "forwardness" were still damaging, and to sign a different surname to one's husband or children could suggest that one was living in sin.

One, for instance, makes love to Sadeem, the girl he is formally engaged to (couples are allowed to meet in the period between the signing of the contract and the wedding ceremony), but then promptly "divorces" her for her forwardness.

An English visitor noted that he was "of great forwardness, good presence and courage, flaxen haired, endued with a singular wit".

Why do you invite us to dinner parties when everyone knows you don't like us, that you've been full of contempt for us from the very beginning?" He was surprised by the forwardness of the question.

When a candidate like him someone who has really zero chance of winning says he looks forward to becoming president in a little over a year, does that, should that, must that, dent his reputation for honesty and straight-forwardness?10 12 : Noticed two biblical references right up front in Mr Huckabee's speech.

From my perspective, I'd like to see more Mr McCain (passion, straight-forwardness) in Mr Obama, and more Mr Obama (nuance, consideration) in Mr McCain.

That's like the whole state of Georgia!" Bobby's teacher was so impressed by his straight-forwardness that she awarded him 100 per cent on the test.

Someone who may not have lasted long had he been commentating in the United States considering his straight-forwardness in his live commentaries.