Sentence examples for honest admitting from inspiring English sources

It would be far better if these companies were honest, admitting that their motives are driven by making as much profit as possible.

He is honest, admitting that he didn't read all the books when judging the National Book Award; generous, giving the credit for Slate's achievements to his successor; and self-deprecating, even when fessing up to his years in denial about his own Parkinson's disease, about which he is plain-spoken and never mawkish.

Others, like Greenspan, were more honest, admitting to the committee that there was a "flaw in the model of how I perceived the world works".

Because it addressed his greatest weakness--his flip-flopping, particularly on this issue--by seeming honest, admitting a mistake, and offering an alternative narrative on why he ran and governed as a Massachusetts liberal on social issues other than "he just wants to win".

"It is a challenge, to be honest," admits Jón.

'I was grateful to come in at 1-1, to be honest,' admitted Lewington.

"I don't really know what planet it's on, to be honest," admits Shrigley.

"I wasn't expecting a lot when I sent it in, to be honest," admits the director Beaumont Loewenthal, who is in his final year at Buckinghamshire New University.

"Standing on the sidelines watching a team do that well, it's a bit surreal to be honest," admitted caretaker manager Andy Liddell, who even dropped top scorer Adam Le Fondre and skipper Ryan Cresswell.

What they're too polite to say is that most of us who think we had another kind of college experience, who believe that we actually learned something, would if we were honest admit that most of the actual intellectual content of our undergraduate years has long since vanished, leaving only a few half-remembered facts and impressions.

"It's been a while since I achieved a double race win and it was pretty unexpected to be honest," admitted Laverty.