In former times, too, art forthrightly answered the audience's emotional needs: tell me a story, sing me a song.
About this, as I have also written forthrightly, I was wrong.
Both he and T. J. have mixed feelings about the youth group and each other, and the ups and downs of their alliance are depicted forthrightly, without too much romanticism or condescension.
If Talulla doesn't yank our emotional heartstrings (she knows we're too smart for that), she forthrightly elucidates ugly situations that even she's afraid of, like the possibility she'll be raped while imprisoned ("There was no kind of rape there wasn't a rapist for") or her repugnant temptation to kill and consume a human baby.
They address sensitive topics not by censoring or confining speech, but rather by forthrightly addressing questions that have too often gone unasked, by expanding the perspectives represented in our artwork and campus symbols, and by provoking further discussion.
Our city can only be lifted by a mayor who forthrightly tells all of Los Angeles what too many in Los Angeles already know: that principal institutions of local government fail to afford all residents equal opportunity and equal dignity.
His paintings at 1081 Art are more forthrightly caustic yet also more intriguing.
They also claimed they would see more forthrightly to the business of government, and that meant ethics reform.
But they can also find lodgings, restaurants and entertainment that forthrightly reflect their Southwestern setting.
It will remind them of those who helped to build the institution we cherish, and it will remind them, too, of our collective responsibility simultaneously to respect the past, to acknowledge forthrightly its deficiencies, and to improve upon it.
