Sentence examples for the frankness for from inspiring English sources

As with her previous writings, we are treated to some of the frankness for which her works are rightly celebrated: she gives us her reflections on issues from colonialism (and her inescapable complicity in its continuance) to women's shouldering of the care burden, to increasing social inequality (all the more "horrifying" to someone who has lived through the optimism of the postwar period).

CC Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Meredith's novel was banned by the circulating libraries for the frankness of its sexual descriptions.

The official — who exchanged frankness for assurances of anonymity — said they meant weaker southern countries could no longer "shield behind Germany".

"We already got some extra guys lined up on standby duty," said one groundskeeper who traded his frankness for the promise that he would not be named.

Evangelist Billy Graham tackled the topic of death often and with surprising frankness for a man who made his living telling people the Good News of salvation in Christ.

He described, with unusual frankness for someone in his position, the Cohen family's machinations, and described Dame Shirley, who had been embroiled in legal action over her time as leader of Westminster council, as "a sorcerer's apprentice, obsessed with power".

With unusual frankness for a politician, he referred to the new law as an experiment.

With a startling degree of frankness for federal employees discussing their agency, three ATF agents described the failure of Fast and Furious.

I do not doubt their frankness for a moment, nor do I doubt Anderson's sincerity.

WORDS that once would have had mouths on Madison Avenue washed out with soap are becoming common enough in advertisements that one could wonder if the familiar Wendy's slogan from 1984, were it being introduced today, might be brought out as "Where's the [choose your expletive] beef?" There are two main reasons, experts say, for the increasing frankness of the language in everyday advertising.

(A long close-up erases any ambiguity and conjures up memories of Vincent Gallo's notorious "Brown Bunny".) But the display is less shocking for its sexual frankness than for its aesthetic crudity.