Sentence examples similar to rather than forthright from inspiring English sources

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It's not a matter of affected dynamics — holding back in whispers rather than playing forthright.

But it is time for straightforward rather than smooth, and forthright not facile.

While most companies aren't so candid about future unreleased products, LG's regional execs have a history of being rather more forthright than most, so it's likely this is a genuine peek behind the curtain.

I think I had expected full-throated advocates of individualism and selfishness to be gregarious and forthright rather than socially awkward, but maybe it makes more sense that they were loners.

I've known all sorts, but I should think the best would prove to be patient, understanding, careful, honest, and forthright rather than falsely flattering or disingenuous, celebratory, certainly, and sympathetic as well about all the trying circumstances all writers face nearly all the time.

The assembly of portraits is no beauty pagaent; a forthright depiction rather than a flattering one seems to have been the standard of the day.

In his later years, Darwin regretted using the term in a causal sense, rather than sticking with the more forthright 'struggle for existence'.

"Unfortunately, these issues are now defined in the public arena by partisanship and ideology rather than rigorous empirical thought and forthright analysis and discussion," he said.

As with The Return, The Banishment and Elena, Zvyagintsev exhibits an extraordinary eye for the class-inflected details of intimate family life, the personal and the political perfectly intertwined, albeit to rather more forthright purpose here than elsewhere in his back catalogue.

But where we don't actually intend to, we should be forthright about it — rather than pretending that change is perpetually just around the corner, and behaving as though our choices are justified by how much anguish we express while making them.

This could bring the crisis to a head within days, rather than weeks".Nationalise the banks" was the forthright response of one commenter on the last post and that could be done, of course.

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