Sentence examples for plainspoken style from inspiring English sources

That was the plainspoken style of the last years of Justice Stevens's tenure.

Justice Stevens' plainspoken style characterized the last years of his tenure.

He aimed, as W. H. Auden noted in his "Lectures on Shakespeare," for a bleak, plainspoken style largely dependent on monosyllabic words.

There was Joe Biden, with his powerful plainspoken style, and there was Bernie Sanders, an inspiring and largely scandal-free figure.

At CNN, there were two new anchors, Paula Zahn, who left Fox to lead the morning show, and Aaron Brown, the lead anchor, whose worried, plainspoken style is a counterpoint to the self-assurance of Jennings, Rather, and Brokaw.

Whereas Greenspan specialized in tortuously oblique sentences parsable only by semioticians — he once said, "Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence" — Bernanke advocated a plainspoken style.

Their shorts vary between the clever visual language of advertising and a more plainspoken documentary style.

Mr. Cain's early supporters are hoping that his plainspoken speaking style, his up-from-the-bootstraps life story, and his success in business will appeal to conservative voters.

"We were not just business associates," he writes, in the plainspoken manner that is his trademark.

(This last shows moments of flair, as when he compares Gorbachev's estate to "a metastatic International House of Pancakes". Mostly, though, Morris is plainspoken, and that style serves him well: he is matter-of-fact about matters of fact).

Telgemeier's style is plainspoken and sophisticated at once.