Sentences with phrase «frankness of»

«The frankness of the market, giving us the options available on offers.

Renowned for her kindness, foresight and frankness of bearing, Aunty Winnie united her people under the Wurundjeri Tribe Land Compensation and Cultural Heritage Council.

The frankness of Litte's analysis is helpful, especially in a section in which she offers her view — which, of course, won't jibe with everyone's — about Amazon's 70/30 royalty split in the KDP program:

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.

We salute the honesty and frankness of the people Ellen interviewed — a legion of educators, parents, and even students.

Strange, stilted dialogue castrates the piece of humanity, while the frankness of conversations recalls Wes Anderson... really, really pessimistic Wes Anderson.

But his critics have had an easy time making that charge, given the frankness of Card's writings.

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..

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If there was even a modicum of frankness in Harper's discussion with that family on the first day of the campaign, it would have been a very short conversation indeed.

Its intention to hold on to the control of the means of production at any price, while being incapable of making the socially necessary use of them is here expressed with complete frankness in the superstructure.

Barry Sheerman, chairman of the parliamentary cross-party has reacted to all this with admirable frankness: no weasel words here, simply an open suspicion of all religion when it is actually believed rather than just talked about.

She is clearly a cultured lady, and The Ear of the Heart has a frankness and trust that brings Dolores Hart — star actress and dedicated Benedictine — very personally to the mind of the reader.

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.

In their presence would you dare frankly to confess that that which you desire in the world, in which you sought your consolation, certain that the king in his majesty would not despise you even though you were a man of inferior rank; certain that the beggar would not go away envious that he could not have the same consolation; certain that the man like yourself would be pleased by your frankness?

Despite his manifest imperfections — of which the Bible speaks with amazing frankness — David represents a Hebrew worthy of emulation.

Nor is it of real consequence for the future of preaching to spend time bragging on the world for its honesty, frankness, and integrity while clubbing the church for hypocrisy and pretension.

In England, Bishop Robinson's Honest to God became a best seller, partly because of his frankness in expressing doubts about traditional ways of speaking of God.

With it he sent a letter to the Pope himself, written with all the frankness, openness, intellectual integrity and respect for authority of which Luther was capable.

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.

Francis answered them with the frankness that has become a hallmark of his young papacy.

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.

And I love your frankness about the cream of tartar:) Can't wait to read the update on Poland.

Such frankness does not please the old goats, few of whom can see beyond their own sectional strongholds and club gates.

Adding to this disillusion, he continues, is a gradual erosion of public faith in politics, driven in part by the distorting impact of 24 - hour news and social media — «it does trivialise politics, and it has done a real amount of damage to the perception of politics» — a backlash against a political class that favours spin over frankness — «I detest spin, it is deceit and it is intended to be deceit» — and, ultimately, by the failure of mainstream parties to «reach out beyond the political sphere» and speak to people's real concerns.

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.

The restored paragraph reads: «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.»

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.

I think that the main traits of my character are frankness, open - heartiness and honesty.

Asian westernized girls are fully aware of the happening in the western interracial dating world, and your frankness would score a mark over there in your favor.

We love their interview because of their frankness about online dating in general, but also because it is encouraging for those who are currently using Christian Mingle or who are considering it.

The 100 % innocence and the frankness to the foreigners are sure starters of conversation and freeze of the canvassers.

Kay Cannon's Blockers approaches the randiness of her female characters with unvarnished frankness.

While he values Elizabeth's frankness and how she confidently handles the job on her own terms, those qualities aren't always appreciated, especially by other members of the White House staff.

Kelly eventually leads these characters toward the inevitable, and the frankness with which he handles scenes involving end - of - life decisions, fear in the face of death, and the desire to find meaning in any of this mess is admirable.

For all of its authenticity and frankness, Beach Rats is a bit of a slog.

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.

There's a frankness and honesty beneath the show's raunchiness that sometimes echo the best work of Judy Blume and other great chroniclers of adolescent angst, especially where the fraught and seldom - discussed feelings of boys are involved.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — Three of the best films at this year's Telluride festival deal with unusual frankness with sex.

The Netflix show stood out for its frankness and its vulgarity, centered on a group of seventh graders going through puberty.

The sex scenes are also handled with a frankness and intimacy that you don't see in films too often, and that, coupled with a pair of superb performances by John Hawkes and Helen Hunt, is what makes «The Sessions» such a real joy to watch.

Directed by James Whale in between Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, The Old Dark House (1932) injects a touch of camp and a jigger of sexual frankness into the gothic tropes of a creepy manor in a thunderstorm.

Though the movie does have the prescribed happy ending of propaganda, that didn't stop the U.S. government from blanching at its frankness, and The Master is a true spiritual sequel.

The writing / dialogue is at times brutally frank but then this frankness is juxtaposed with moments of comedy that resulted in laugh - out - loud moments in the packed theatre.

That sort of disarming level of frankness only goes so far, though.

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.

But there are other, more interesting similarities: both movies are reminiscent of the European art films whose sexual frankness galvanized the American cinema in the 1960s and»70s.