Sentences with phrase «frankness as»

They praised qualities such as candor and frankness as essential for friendship, but, because they did not suppose that the most important thing about each of us is our uniqueness, they did not have to see in friendship a way by which one unique self builds a bridge to another.

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Curtis Milhaupt, professor of Japanese corporate law at Columbia, says the frankness of the report is a «good sign for Japanese corporate governance» and, as professor Mark Roe at Harvard Law says, it shows an Olympus committee much «more willing to be negative» than we are used to seeing in similar reports in the U.S..

The key takeaway is much the same as Olds» — just take a little time to ask a few questions and think things over before you exercise your admirable frankness.

On that account, if you should ever be almost ashamed of your mean occupation, because, among the world's distinctions, it is so mean, the transfigured one's visit to you as an individual will give you the courage of frankness.

The transfigured one's visit to you as an individual will give you that courage of frankness — but what am I speaking of — and if you actively consider the occasion of this talk, then you will stand as an individual before a still more exalted one who, none the less, thinks still more humanly — about the meanness of the occupation, but also infinitely more purely about which occupation is truly honorable.

The third chapter surprised readers with its sexual frankness when it appeared as a short story in Partisan Review, but candor defines her approach to every subject, including society, politics, and psychoanalysis.

As we looked out over the water with the fascination of gay bright lights playing upon our eyes, he talked with complete and disarming frankness.

The spirit of openness to dialogue in frankness and fairness has been received with warm appreciation, as well as especially the emphasis on prayer with and for each other and the positive focus on ecumenical texts of the scriptures.

But this morning, he called Mitt Romney's selection of Ryan a «real moment of frankness and candor,» and then proceeded to tear into Ryan's budget plan as a «paint - by - numbers picture» of an America in which the middle class would be asked to shoulder an ever - greater economic burden.

Yet, in this case, that does not seem to have been true: as the evidence showed, some Security Services officials appear to have a dubious record relating to actual involvement, and frankness about any such involvement, with the mistreatment of Mr Mohamed when he was held at the behest of US officials.

Frankness Meeting on the Internet, we can expect more frank, because people in the virtual world, in contrast to ordinary life, as a rule, are much less shy and not afraid to say too much.

It's sexual frankness may pose a challenge but really — it shouldn't as this is stuff we probably should be talking about in the mainstream but simply don't.

Social castes are flayed bare with a frankness unheard of in polite entertainment as the hero penguin — flawed (retarded, even) in his ability to communicate through song but gifted with funk and that loping, soulful gait of Glover's (an artist who by himself reshaped his medium)-- befriends a quintet of «amigos» in the Antarctic barrio.

For those who have, The Leisure Seeker's frankness actually comes as a relief, de-stigmatizing all the signs of aging our society works so hard to erase.

As I look at this slate of beautiful work, I could just make a series of simple observations: that these films come from all over the globe; that there is a nice balance of filmmakers known and unknown to many here in New York; that the overall balance between frankness and artistry holds me in awe; that there are two gala selections with the word «wonder» in their titles; and that eight of the 25 films were directed by women.»

More than that, at the cusp of entering her 90th year on this planet, Varda isn't one to mince words, and some of her insights and observations (especially as they concern fellow French New Wave director Jean - Luc Godard) are oftentimes shocking in their blunt frankness.

Deservedly lauded at Sundance for its frankness and non-judgemental approach to female and young - adult sexuality, the film impresses on its own terms as a solidly - constructed character study of a mercurial, still - forming artist, told with a straight face despite the period eccentricities.

In The Fox Was Always a Hunter, Herta Müller once again uses language that displays the «concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose» - as the Swedish Academy noted upon awarding her the Nobel Prize - to create a hauntingly cinematic portrayal of the corruption of the soul under totalitarianism.

But if you're searching for unsparing, often hysterical frankness, I See You Made an Effort just might reflect some of your own experiences or serve as reassurance that what's ahead may not be so bad, as long as you do what Gurwitch's gynecologist told her: Stay funny.

There's a charming frankness in this material, just as in past renditions, Patchett writing of how she learned a trend is pretty much what you say it is.

Artists like Stanley Spencer RA and Lucian Freud addressed head on, with unprecedented frankness, the nature of male heterosexual desire, and the fact of the body as simply flesh.

With extraordinary generosity and frankness and somehow with a lot of sympathy as well, he compared what he felt to be the bleak but possible heroic fate awaiting us when we left Art School to the cosy, hierarchical life of an Art Historian.»

His pictures reveal his subjects» innermost fears and aspirations, their perceptions and illusions about themselves, with a frankness that makes the portraits as engrossing as they are disturbing.

To tell the truth, as a former painter, I am almost jealous of Doig's recent paintings, of their presence and frankness; they have the kind of authority that can't be striven for, but only arrived at like an unexpected gift — one that may pass.»

Steven E. Koonin, once the Obama administration's undersecretary of energy for science and chief scientist at BP, stirred up a swirl of turbulence in global warming discourse this week after The Wall Street Journal published «Climate Science is Not Settled,» his essay calling for more frankness about areas of deep uncertainty in climate science, more research to narrow error ranges and more acknowledgement that society's decisions on energy and climate policy are based on values as much as data.