Sentence examples for give a forthright from inspiring English sources

Petraeus: "I would give a forthright answer: I cannot predict that!" There were small revealing moments.

Mr. Giuliani's aides said yesterday that many of the mayor's advisers had been calling on him during the last week to tone down his words and perhaps even give a forthright public address on community police relations in the city.

In 2010, the Democrats failed to stand up to the big banks like the public wanted or even give a forthright defense of the new health care law.

Radcliffe gives a forthright and candid performance as Ginsberg, very plausibly representing his idealism and sexual naivety.

The tenor Fabio Sartori, a big man with a big voice, gives a forthright portrayal of Riccardo that reaches its high point in his final aria of remorse.

That she has never given a forthright speech on Iraq is what can happen when your chief campaign strategist is a pollster.

On Sunday evening at the Metropolitan Museum she gave a forthright presentation of three classic violin sonatas: Mozart's in B flat from 1784, Brahms's in G and Beethoven's in C minor.

After a touch-line argument with then-club captain Gareth Owen, Gannon gave a forthright interview explaining that disciplinary action would be taken, and Owen would be stripped of the captaincy.

In media appearances in the past 24 hours, including on WFAN in New York with Mike Francesa and with Jeremy Schaap on Outside the Lines, Pernetti spoke like someone more interested in covering his behind than in giving a forthright accounting of what happened.

Last spring, at Johns Hopkins University, Smart gave a particularly forthright speech at a conference on sex trafficking.

Not only has the author succeeded in giving us a forthright and convincing portrait of one of the most driven women in British history, but by making use of the uncataloged archives preserved at the home of Florence's older sister, Parthenope, she offers fascinating insights into the family that Nightingale relied on and wanted to escape.