My body, therefore, became the only visible trace of her dead son, which likely explained my physical cowardice — which I, of course, compensated for with a restless but, to be frank, ambitionless intelligence.
Ms. Polley observes the resulting confusion with sympathy, intelligence and disarmingly frank sensuality.
These and other frank communications by Mr. Libi have led intelligence analysts at the West Point center and elsewhere to pore over his videos like Kremlinologists looking for operational clues to Soviet intentions.
In others' words "A man of intelligence, and one of those prompt, frank, ardent souls that I love to meet".
Michel in particular is afflicted by sadness, his hyper-intelligence condemning him to all too frank an apprehension of the way things are going.
Supple, frank, unafraid of contradictions, her literary voice has all the courageous intelligence one associates with a certain type of British writer but none of the chill.
American officials said the exchanges, which included civilian, military and intelligence officials from the three countries, had been unusually frank and substantive, if somewhat general.
Angry that the US was favouring India, and worried Washington wanted to increase the power of Pakistan's civilian leaders, the "military and intelligence establishment" was quietly punishing the Islamabad embassy, one frank dispatch in February 2010 noted.
Zinder's restless intelligence led him to wider stages on which he could be outspoken and brutally frank.
