forwardness

Example Sentences

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“ChatGPT encouraged an odd strain of forwardness that was helpful in getting the dates set up quickly,” Tal Murphy wrote.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2023

Pardon my forwardness — and my ignorance, for not knowing your work until now! — but I’m overwhelmed by your lucid musicality.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2021

The forwardness of it, and the echo back to the obvious origin story of Lorelai and Rory, was kind of great.

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2016

Nor had the song fully delivered a sense of tragic inevitability, in which Hamilton’s uncharacteristic reticence and Burr’s uncharacteristic forwardness ruin the lives of both men.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 2, 2015

He stood up, aghast at Miss Riley’s forwardness, brushing imaginary debris from his vest.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam