Sentence examples for its frankness from inspiring English sources
The programme is, at times, really quite stomach-churning in its frankness, but it somehow works, mostly thanks to Anna Richardson's hearty, Staffordshire-lass attitude.
The book raised eyebrows by its frankness, but it gave a brilliant insight into the process of scientific discovery, and revealed how Crick and Watson interacted with the same kind of two-way precision as the double helix itself.
Cohen-Greene is clearly a remarkable woman, and Hunt plays her with a common-sense kindness, intelligence, empathy and good humour that is beautiful to watch, and an unselfconsciousness about her own body that is initially breathtaking in its frankness before it becomes a form of naturalness of a rare, undemonstrative sort.
What it lacks in cohesiveness it makes up in its frankness, its quick-pivoting angularities.
Putnam later wrote of his relationship with Earhart that it was "brutal in its frankness but beautiful in its honesty". Read Earhart's prenup here.
Steve McQueen's "Shame," with the ubiquitous Michael Fassbender as a sex-addicted yuppie (is that still what they're called?), has received a lot of attention for its frankness, but I think it and its admirers confuse moralistic misery with honesty.
This work was roundly condemned in its time because of its sexual frankness and its portrayal of an interracial marriage and went out of print for more than 50 years.
Rather than focusing on its linguistic bravura, however, they contend that it's "a direct appeal for world governments to help the hardest-hit victims of natural disasters", as relevant to modern-day Haiti or Sudan as to 1930s Texas, ahead of its time not just in its sexual frankness but also in its ecological awareness.
(A long close-up erases any ambiguity and conjures up memories of Vincent Gallo's notorious "Brown Bunny".) But the display is less shocking for its sexual frankness than for its aesthetic crudity.
Peyton Place sold millions of copies throughout 1956, surprising readers with its erotic frankness and publishers with its success.
Yet it has its own frankness and drive.
