frank
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“A very, very frank analysis of a candidate’s strengths and weaknesses is a part of every executive search,” said Martha Heller, CEO of technology executive recruiting firm Heller Search Associates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"She gave a full and frank admission to the offence and showed remorse to each of her victims. That is genuine remorse and regret for what she did," said Edwards.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
I think it’s a lot more humane, to be quite frank.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026
Now, a long-awaited independent investigation commissioned by Gov. Gavin Newsom provides the most frank and in-depth review of the Jan. 7, 2025 catastrophes, and points out multiple shortcomings in governmental planning and response.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Simmon gave me a frank stare, “She came looking for you. She obviously wants something.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Kozinn and Sinclair paint her as a complex person, occasionally haughty or petty, but franker and more open with the press.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
Maybe it would open the door for a franker conversation about his functionality that he is as yet too ashamed to broach?
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2021
It was, said Bobby Wagner, an ugly win by the Seahawks — a frank assessment for which wide receiver Tyler Lockett had a slightly franker amendment.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2019
But a South Korean presidential adviser offered a franker assessment.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2019
Never was a novel written with a franker or more deliberate purpose than that shown in For the Term of his Natural Life.
From Australian Writers by Desmond Byrne
Passages like these are some of the frankest and most resonant I have read about what death does to the bereaved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2022
Would you say that the latest episode of Red Table Talk features the show’s frankest discussion of infidelity yet?
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2020
Ellison’s closeness with Wright brings out some of his frankest early letters.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
“This may be the frankest and most important presidential correspondence of this century,” he told the New York Times.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2018
His treatment of women, for example, compares unfavourably with that shown in the frankest tales of Bret Harte.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
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