Sentence examples for lack of forthrightness from inspiring English sources

Dynegy cited Enron's lack of forthrightness as a reason to walk away from the merger agreement.

The emails that were stolen suggested a lack of forthrightness in the presentation of some climate data.

Unsuspecting Enron employees were the most direct victims of the company's lack of forthrightness, but overall investor confidence in the integrity of the marketplace took a serious hit with Enron's demise.

Mr. Brauchli declined to comment, but his wife, Maggie Farley, left a large breadcrumb to follow when she asked in a now deleted Facebook post how had "the Washington Post of Watergate fame become the place where you can't speak truth to power?" That lack of forthrightness clanked at a news media organization where the chief asset is credibility.

While the doctors who testified for Mr. Hinckley said they did not believe his reading tastes were "clinically significant," the government doctors said his willingness to withhold information suggested a "lack of forthrightness," especially in the case of the book about Ms. Foster.

While Jon S. Corzine is blanketing New Jersey with sunny television commercials promoting his "fiscal discipline" and his "faith in the American dream," his Republican opponent in the race for the United States Senate, Representative Bob Franks, has zeroed in on Mr. Corzine's finances and his apparent lack of forthrightness as inviting targets for what is becoming a sharply focused line of attack.

Just directness, sincerity and the kind of forthrightness that is not capable of being shaken".

That combination of forthrightness and tribal loyalty is a common thread running through Powell's biography.

That kind of forthrightness has been rarer in the fashion world.

The moral moment, the challenge of forthrightness to which she obviously rises, is elided.

A Midwesterner who valued "the culture of forthrightness he'd grown up with" but who became preoccupied with recursive literary narratives and the convoluted theories of Jacques Derrida.