Sentence examples for rough honesty from inspiring English sources

Because of his simple heart, rough honesty, and obstinate strength, Ilya has remained a durable symbol to the eastern Slavs.

There's a case to be made for a little rough honesty about a period of life more often portrayed with sanitized "Wonder Years" nostalgia.

Sometimes awkwardly and sometimes gracefully, "Being Flynn" charts a middle course between the rough honesty of its source and the sentimental triteness of the much worse movie it could have been.

The stripped-down baroque singing is good but not great, the exception being Paula Murrihy's Dido: her voice has a rough-hewn honesty, her acting is magnetic and her lament is full of pathos.

The nature of its form leaves it, at times, feeling ramshackle and unfocused, but no doubt this is part of its charm – a rough and ready honesty.

Francesca Grifo of the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Massachusetts, welcomed the memo in a statement: "This is a rough but promising blueprint for honesty and accountability in the use of science in government decisions".

His charisma is aggressively negative: a petulant, sneering, bullying disregard for other people (and for his own hygiene) that is meant, I guess, to represent a kind of rough-hewn, politically incorrect masculine honesty.

The sheen helped take the rough edges off his playing, blending the honesty of the field hand's blues with the big band pop tradition.

She seems to want you to hear the splinters and rough ends in this music as coding for honesty, individuality and romantic stubbornness.

His new collection, Rough & Smooth, uses heavy materials and something called 'textural honesty'.

The rough, in this case, validates the smooth, providing a balance and honesty that other films haven't managed so well.