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The state of being frank; candour; honesty.

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"Blair is to frankness what Herod was to baby-sitting".

Issuing a final judgment in Mohamed's appeal against the foreign secretary over his treatment, the judges said that the dubious record extended to "frankness about the UK's involvement with the mistreatment of Mr Mohamed by US officials".

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Over four studio albums (as Peaches), eye-popping concert tours, a one-woman remake of Jesus Christ Superstar and collaborations with artists as diverse as Iggy Pop and Feist, Peaches has made it her life's work to take frankness to places it doesn't usually venture: the realm of the absurd, into art, into politics (Impeach My Bush was the title of her 2006 album).

Like with his landscapes, Hodler piles on the style not to obscure frankness but to coax it further.

Many readers who are interested by the diary have found themselves drawn to Kilvert himself, to his humour and modesty, and to the frankness with which he writes about his susceptibility to female beauty.

Fascinatingly, Trump's triumph over Hillary Clinton was anticipated by Iran's supreme leader, who just prior to the election declared that Trump had more support among Americans due to his frankness about the realities of the country.

Online, status and self-disclosure often amount to the same thing, as acutely personal Web diaries gain credibility in direct proportion to their frankness.

Merlyn and the surviving sons, David and Danny, are the heirs to the frankness that Mickey Mantle adopted in his final years as his alcoholism and decline in health were played out in public.

Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker's television critic, talks with feminist writer and performer Lindy West about how to tell frankness from exploitation, and why Nussbaum thinks that the more programs deal with rape, the better.

While some may find the photographs stark, I found the sharp, unembellished, unpretentious photographs of Obama's team representative of what I believe America is hoping the Obama administration will bring to government: frankness, honesty, genuineness — what you see is what you get.

We tried to minimise the effect of these potential problems by interviewing people in their homes and emphasising anonymity to foster frankness and honesty.

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