'frank acknowledgement' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express recognition of something, usually an uncomfortable truth. For example, "The senator accepted his opponent's frank acknowledgement of the flaws in his own campaign platform."
A frank acknowledgement of problems in one area does not eclipse the good that was done.
His frank acknowledgement of his error is something that is disturbingly lacking from many of those in Ball's book.
But there is a frank acknowledgement that the scourge of homelessness is unlikely to be defeated, at least in the short term.
Mr. Hoyer's frank acknowledgement that he had "demagogued" Bush-era debt-limit hikes, like the intense partisanship that has surrounded virtually every major Congressional matter this year from the stimulus plan to the health care overhaul, was illustrative of how the running battle for control of Congress is impeding cross-party cooperation.
It is a frank acknowledgement that, since the squad met up at the end of May to prepare for the Confederations Cup, Brazil have cruised into a position where they must surely be viewed as 2014 World Cup favourites.
It's such a frank acknowledgement that the GOP's ideas are not accepted by the majority of American voters.
IN the second and third parts of "Flying," metafiction takes over, and any readers who signed up for gentle, sentimental humor will find themselves awash in a sea of literary and pop references, satires of commercial culture and frank acknowledgements of authorial unreliability.
While I am dealing with issues of warfare and conflict in this work, the title and the choice of the song are also very frank acknowledgements of the fact that I am also in a way romanticising warfare but let's not pretend that we've lived in warzones or could ever understand the lives of those who are living in places where violent conflict is their daily realities.
While I am dealing with issues of warfare and conflict in this work, the title and the choice of the song are also very frank acknowledgements of the fact that I am also in a way romanticizing warfare but let's not pretend that we've lived in warzones or could ever understand the lives of those who are living in places where violent conflict is their daily realities.
On Tuesday, the White House announced that the US would use the 100th anniversary of the genocide "to urge a full, frank and just acknowledgement of the facts".
Tristram Shandy's power to shock lay in its frank and comic acknowledgement of the libidinal energies that animated 18th-century life.
