straightforwardness

Example Sentences

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Despite the whirlwind nature of the last few hours, the gracious 22-year-old actor sounds genuinely invested when answering questions with a respectful straightforwardness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2025

There's a disarming straightforwardness to this conversation on a bench, spring flowers in the background.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024

What I admire is the extraordinary seriousness, straightforwardness, bluntness that hasn’t turned to bitterness or cynicism or nihilism in the face of this.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023

Schrader films “She Said” with a bracing combination of straightforwardness and sensitivity, staging the most prurient details of Weinstein’s cases with somber restraint rather than salacious literalism.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2022

And look at the modest, talky straightforwardness of phrases like, “It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. ”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith