So in a hearing on Wednesday, when Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, demanded to know how long the United States would support Pakistan, or as he put it, "governments that lie to us," Mr. Gates, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, had an unvarnished answer.
The worthy intent is to provide unvarnished answers from the top in response to what's really on people's minds.
Not surprisingly, Mr. D'Alessandro said, few managers in that position can or will look at the situation objectively and provide useful, unvarnished answers.
In a case expected to provide unvarnished answers to an episode thatcaptivated the world, Tsarnaev faces 29 charges, including the use of a weapon of mass destruction, conspiracy to bomb a place of public use resulting in death, bombings of places of public use resulting in death, and possession and use of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence.
When it comes to the central question of social media, however – "what are you doing?" – we are likely to treat the answer as an unvarnished insight into someone else's life.
"Why'd you start this company?" shouldn't be an unanticipated question when you're pitching TechCrunch, and if your answer isn't the unvarnished truth, at least make sure you're all on the same page about what that answer is.
There's something she could say in answer to these questions — the whole, unvarnished truth — but she won't.
She hesitated at first to be so honest onstage, she said, but believes telling the unvarnished truth is a big part of the answer.
The students weren't born during the civil rights era and none of the crimes happened in New Jersey, but they understood the importance of unearthing records that could provide solace, and answers, to those interested in the unvarnished facts of the cases.
Denied media credentials for the NRA's 2015 annual meeting in Kentucky, Beckett and a video crew parked outside the event and produced a remarkable, unvarnished, humanizing four-minute portrait of gun owners answering the question: "What do liberals get wrong about guns?" The NRA reaction to Beckett's Times column is telling.
The result was an occasionally unvarnished exchange.
