Sentence examples for having a forthright from inspiring English sources

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

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 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.

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

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.

This year, he says, he hopes to produce at least 1,000 pounds of oak-roasted, coarsely ground white cornmeal, which has a forthright sweet-corn flavor and a slight smokiness that has chefs across the country scrambling for Bayless's leftovers.

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).