frankness
Example Sentences
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Portraits come in many incarnations—the rigorous realism of Holbein, the rococo elegance of Gainsborough, the harsh frankness of Lucian Freud, to name just a few.
I deeply appreciated Eugene Robinson’s frankness on our current climate predicament in his March 22 op-ed, “There’s no time to wallow in despair on the climate.”
From Washington Post
“Heartbreak” has a fun pep, an admirable frankness, plenty of compelling slang and an inclination toward the gnarliness of friendship over the comparative simplicity of romance.
From New York Times
In their neon frankness, we see a tiny fragment of verse enthralling the subconscious, which is what fragments do best.
From New York Times
That frankness feels like a bit of a watershed in an era in which actors have been strenuously honing themselves to meet the sort of narrow beauty expectations normally reserved for women.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
