Sentence examples for not quite forthright from inspiring English sources

One was his intimate friendship with the philosopher David Hume, his closest colleague and greatest influence, and his not quite forthright embrace of the atheism for which Hume was notorious.

Using his dark eyes and his sensuous, clouded handsomeness as a romantic mask, he gave his role a defensive, not quite forthright quality, and he brought out everything that it was possible to bring out of his warmed-over lines, weighting them perfectly, so that they almost seemed felt.

But listings are often not quite so forthright.

For all his fey charm, he is the most slippery of interviewees; even his droll autobiography, "Private Domain," is not quite as forthright as it seems.

The Information Commissioner's Office also seems to suspect Google of not being quite forthright with its officials earlier, which might explain the more aggressive stance this time around.

He is forthright, if not quite as elegant as when he was scoring 20 Test hundreds.

But Mr. Sendak could also be warm and forthright, if not quite gregarious.

There is an engaging realist style here, and some forthright performances, but it does not quite achieve the depth and narrative satisfaction that the drama appeared at first to promise.