"We have not been frank enough with our allies".
Will today's politicians ever be frank enough to tell them?* "Globalisation and Europe: Prospering in the New Whirled Order".
Prince Saud had been frank enough to confess to Hillary that camels were ugly, so I wondered if he'd say the same about Ahmadinejad's crazy rants.
Unlike most designers, though, he is frank enough to admit his choices are conceived with a budget — his own and the consumer's — in mind.
"No, and what I said in 2008 [is that] we can be held to account for our successes and failures and this is my point, we should be able to celebrate where successes are occurring and be frank enough to know when we have to change course". he said.
Who would be frank enough to warn that my husband might exchange me for a younger woman unless I forced him to buy me jewels so expensive it would be impossible for him to leave both me and the gems behind?
People we had come to know because a goddaughter of mine married into their family have some involvement in the cigarette business, and Alice, who could be frank enough on that subject to provoke a shouting match at a dinner party, never mentioned it in their presence.
He's frank enough to admit to some self-doubts about spending so much time with the kids.
You can get in trouble by not going to enough meetings, by not being frank enough about the soup you're in.
The man, claims Jacoby, who "would have been President of the United States" had he not been "frank enough to express his opinions on religion," was emphatic in his wish to end superstition and remove mythology from politics: "It never did seem reasonable to me," he told rapt audiences across America, "that a long, cold and disgusting snake with an apple in its mouth could deceive anybody".
