frankness

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In Marlaine Delargy’s translation from the Swedish, “Mount Verity” confronts these anguished contradictions with disarming frankness and calm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Billops’s questions to Van Der Zee give shape to the book’s narrative, and the subject’s frankness charms his dialogue.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Judge John Woosley ruled that in “ ‘Ulysses,’ in spite of its unusual frankness, I do not detect anywhere the leer of the sensualist.”

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2025

Doris was known for her frankness, as well as for refusing to make the salad for Neil the Baby's christening.

From BBC • Jul. 6, 2025

He was frank, and expected a reciprocal frankness that I might not be able to supply.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin