Sentences with phrase «let's be frank»

Lore has been frank about the fact that Jet will need to raise a ton of money to achieve scale.

An author and leadership coach, she'd probably be frank and admit what she really feared was her weakness.

On the company's earnings call, Ripp said: «To be frank, I'm disappointed by ad revenue coming in from the Apple site.»

«We've got to figure this out, because — let's be frank — there are going to be more of these drugs coming to the marketplace for even bigger populations.»

That's what more of today's leaders need and to be frank that's what will set you apart from the leaders of yesterday.

«Let's be frank, this car is $ 130,000,» he said, meaning that a lot of people won't be able to afford it.

Son was frank with shareholders about his plan, saying «the purpose of this is only one thing: to make Masayoshi Son 2.0.»

«To be frank, I'm looking forward to this change,» Krishnamurthy tells Inc. «What I'm hoping is that they cut down on the paperwork and the regulations [for companies].»

«We were such a small group with limited resources that, to be frank about it, I would despair.»

The past year has had its share of stressful moments, however, and Murphy and Ryan are both frank about the challenges facing businesses in their Alberta home.

As civil and empathetic as this letter is, the demand is frank and unequivocal; its manner improves Albany Ladder's chances of success if litigation is called for later.

The business plan should be frank, thorough, and in tune with any additional research you've done on the market.

But we need to be frank about the failure rate.»

The demand «that rent should be handed over to the state to serve in place of taxes,» Marx explained, «is a frank expression of the hatred the industrial capitalist bears towards the landed proprietor, who seems to him a useless thing, an excrescence upon the general body of bourgeois production.»

This session will be a frank and honest discussion about how to more effectively achieve diversity and what that actually looks like.

Let's be frank, up until this point, the Taylor rule from John Taylor (of Stanford) has been a very applicable rule in terms of suggesting the need for more or less ease.

That's the frank assessment CEO Brian Niccol issued more than once during his first quarterly call at the chain, which he joined in early March after running Taco Bell.

The Conservatives, on the other hand, are just being frank when they say environmental objectives will take a backseat to the economy.

«A lot of the young people who do these startups, they don't think they can be frank with each other,» Jenkins said.

The Genie is, to be frank, a more affordable version of Amazon's most affordable Echo speaker.

Denton was frank about the situation in a tense all - hands editorial meeting on June 4 in Gawker's Nolita headquarters.

But, to be frank, many of us thought cryptocurrencies would emerge as a major asset class sooner than they did.

To be frank, I prefer to have spacious surroundings (read: a bigger house), but I can also certainly appreciate the charms and simplicity of residing in a cozier place.

To be frank, one doesn't exactly need to be Warren Buffett to profit from stock market trading in a steady bull market.

I'm really glad you posted some numbers on how blogs are valued, and to be frank, they pretty much all seem like steals, as long as you know how to run one.

To be frank, litecoin was severely overbought at the start of the September following a month of lateral moves.

Sometimes we side - step the issue, but there have also been frank and honest conversations on the topics, and even some degree of understanding between those with radically different views.

To be frank, to attribute anything to «god» seems so boring.

One such theme is the frank expression of his own struggle with various elements of Catholic life.

This is often accomplished by, to be frank, shutting up.

by Lori Gottlieb — a single mother who conceived her only child with donor sperm rather than miss out on motherhood as she has on marriage — is a frank and excruciatingly personal look into some of the sexual revolution's lonelier venues, including the creation of children by anonymous or absent sperm donors, the utter corrosiveness of taking a consumerist approach to romance, and the miserable effects of advancing age on one's sexual marketability.

And to be frank, I wouldn't vote for someone who evidently didn't care about his or her spouse and kids.

Let's be frank, Mein Kampf contains elements of truth and morality.

In other words, we must develop a new ethic and, to be frank, a new logic with relation to nature, based on the conviction that, as Father Gustavo Gutiérrez of Peru says, «life and not death has the last word.»

Jeffery is frank about his love of touring — being on stage, getting the immediate feedback from the crowd.

For myself, I am frank to say, I could wish that the word «miracle,» as a theological term, were abandoned.

Yet, to be frank, it has no remedy to offer except good advice!

And to be frank, you sound very aggressive in your fight, which makes me think you have an agenda, or have been hurt.

To be frank, the film is a hive of buzzing sermon illustrations (as illustrated in the box).

And, let us be frank: is it really so certain that formerly, when religion and the Church played a greater part in public life, men really had more true faith, hope and charity, which, after all, are more important than anything else?

It's utterly ludicrous and controlling by the people promoting it, and it's sad to watch people live in that world because they are afraid not to, if I may be frank.

While these implied contrasts between a moral past and an amoral present can be documented in certain respects, as general propositions they are ill - founded and, to be frank, downright wild.

That is a real fear and real threat - and I just feel that lessening the radicalism of the Islamic religion, and in fact, all religions that are radical and to be frank, crazy.

The lyrics of the initial verse are celebratory about the sex act's possibilities, while still being frank about the lovers» work / risk involved.

Unlike many champions of family values who are evasive about their own fractured families, West and Hewlett are frank about the difficulties of raising children.

To be frank, he says that «if by the Spirit you PUT TO DEATH the deeds of the body, YOU WILL LIVE.»

Some people do (A little unsettling that our Government f eels that way imo), but to be frank i think it is rather absurd for anyone to expect a country ON THE OTHER HALF OF THE WORLD that is THOUSANDS of years older than we to have the EXACT SAME values as we do.

Conversations are frank, and real problems are tackled: poor RE in Catholic schools, grave worries about plans for sex education there, pressures on the young from social media, a longing for strong leadership on some of these issues from Bishops.

To be sure, Frank offers other reasons for not being frank, but Hecht isn't buying them.

Genuinely modern people are frank, you know.