straightforwardness

Example Sentences

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The straightforwardness of the process surprised her, but Madigan is now convinced she was the ideal actor to embody Gladys.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

Her time in Parliament has been characterised by her straightforwardness and willingness to engage in controversial issues.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 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