Sentence examples for has a forthright from inspiring English sources

Mr Mas has a forthright attitude to wresting powers from Madrid without demanding full independence, making him a "sovereigntist" in the local jargon.

The Bad Plus has a forthright respect for melody as well as a fierce allegiance to abstraction; somehow the two go hand in hand.

One reason is that McCann has a forthright manner in dealing with the prima donna antics of fans' favourites like Pierre Van Hooijdonk and Paolo Di Canio.

The song has a forthright, steadily rising melody in a major key; it's easy to imagine it being sung by Joan Baez, one of Ms. Mathlouthi's early role models.

Slightly reminiscent of Tracey Ullman's posh hippy character in Three of a Kind, the "medium posh" performer has a forthright and strident presence and pulls her audience in quickly, putting them at ease that they are in safe hands.

The sheer tactlessness of its racial confrontation has a forthright quality and a not entirely intentional documentary realism, especially in the scenes shot on location in Sparta, Illinois (standing in for a fictional Mississippi town).

The many choruses have a forthright musical vigor.

He also possessed a feline love of gossip, and he had a forthright, unapologetic interest in sex.

Mr. Slatkin had a forthright soprano in Christine Goerke and two honorable male singers, the tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson and the baritone Alan Opie.

They have a forthright attitude toward adultery, which, in essence, seems to be that committing it and not committing it are equally pointless; it takes them ten and a half minutes to expound this theory by way of a series of three scenes in the lobby of a hotel.

Yet he never rose to those leaders' defense by having a forthright conversation with the president to call out this conduct.