Sentences with phrase «quite frank»

If I may be quite frank with my fellow galpals in blogger land... How can I compete with all the big beautiful homes out there you all own?

And to be quite frank: all our decorations were given to us (for Christmas) and I don't really like them.

And to be quite frank, the people I most expect to fabricate warming... by some miracle have the highest warming.

Julia King of the Climate Change Committee was quite frank about the role of behaviour change after Roger Pielke Jr's talk on the looming failure of UK policy a few years ago.

In the story, the president's science adviser was quite frank about the limited role of science in the policy realm:

I've never had an eye for business nor an interest in it to be quite frank.

While the story takes a backseat to the gameplay, the combat builds upon what was established in Xenoblade Chronicles and to be quite frank, the story is fascinating.

This doesn't feel like a sim racer or an arcade racer, to be quite frank.

Well, to be quite frank, it doesn't have to change much from the Vita.

You see the problem for me is the main story, I really tried hard to get behind the main character throughout the main story as it unfolded but I just felt the writing was lacklustre and to be quite frank rather uninteresting and blend.

The experience, to be quite frank, was brutal.

But to be quite frank — I don't really miss Donald and Goofy that much, as much of the combat system has been significantly reworked to be far more fast - paced and vary things up a bit.

To be quite frank, however, if there was a multiplayer, the core gameplay is so bad, I am not sure it would be worth playing.

It doesn't really do anything new, it doesn't break the mold of JRPGs or past «Tales of» games and to be quite frank, it doesn't really innovate in any way at all either.

«We ate in town on three occasions but the food was much better at the resort to be quite frank.»

«To be quite frank with you, I expect to see criminal charges come out of this,» said Guilford County Sheriff BJ Barnes.

Alan Greenspan was always quite frank about his approach to monetary policy.

We'll be quite frank - if our readers like your book, they are likely to leave reviews.

They aren't even worth your time to be quite frank.

Let's be quite frank — It's quite an exciting challenge to work against strong hardware and software limitations and still create a work of beauty.

Civic educators are often quite frank about the need to subordinate not only truth but also academic achievement to the imperatives of civic virtue.

To be quite frank, I would not be able to foresee the option of even an attempt to build a better world without the participation, input, inspiration of the young generation... For the first time the UN organizational body of the International Youth Day made use of Social Media and Google Hang - outs to involve and stimulate discussions, brainstorming sessions etc. on an interactive scale.

Fellow jury member, British screenwriter Hanif Kureishi, proved quite frank during the press conference, remarking that some of the films were «very long» and «very weird.»

To his credit, the director was quite frank with the fan, stating that they should avoid it if they want to come into the film completely clean, although he did end his tweet on a tantalizing note.

Well to be quite frank about it, MTX Mototrax doesn't have that solid feel that we have become accustomed to.

I must be quite frank, to say that it actually doesn't look good at all, it seems to be the quality of twilight princess.

Sniper Elite 4 needs an OVERHAUL to be quite frank.

I'll be quite frank: I don't get dressed up every day.

To be quite frank, I adore these posts.

Designers support women's desire to be sexy and desirable, offering increasingly to put on quite frank products.

I tried one and to be quite frank: cricket protein bars taste just like any other decently flavored bar.

To be quite frank, I don't follow sports.

So, because of that experience, I never thought that I would be so happy with the results the Super Blend has given me, to be quite frank, but the ingredients in this are amazing.

«To be quite frank with you, I always try to get on the car that has the conductor,» he said...

Reading Labourhome today is very instructive; the main article is quite frank about Brown's deficiencies and the comments are very good.

He added: «If Jeremy Corbyn offered me that and said «I need this, I need you to do it, this is essential that you do it», I would have to think about it... But to be quite frank, no.

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

Being quite frank with you, the issue of pay raises for my personnel, I'm more supportive of that at the moment than I am additional officers,» Bratton said.

«My response is, and using his words, «to be quite frank with you,» I think it's just a typical response like any other police commissioner who refuses to see the value and the authority of the City Council,» Mr. Williams, who sponsors one of the early intervention bills, said in a phone interview.

It's a waste of time and energy, and it's grandstanding being quite frank with you.»

«I'm more worried about them than I am about Syrian refugees, to be quite frank with you.»

Bratton responded: «I was appalled by it, being quite frank with you, appalled.

«I hope what we're seeing here is an extraordinary wakeup call for him because, to be quite frank with you, to think that they would move forward on this kind of a bill with no clear understanding of what the costs are or what the true impact is across this country.

I just made these brownies a few minutes ago, and well, they taste like cocoa brownies and to be quite frank, I don't like choclate brownies.

* In a subsequent Lunch Tray interview with then - USDA undersecretary Kevin Concannon about the new daycare food rules, Mr. Concannon was quite frank about the role of money in this decision: because of Congressional underfunding, a recommendation that kids get only whole fruits and vegetables instead of juice was relegated to an optional «best practice» instead of being an enforceable mandate.

To be quite frank just watching for a few minutes can drive you mad, as reporters in front of cameras confirm what «Sky Sources» ticker - tape says running across the bottom of the screen, and then breaking news highlights what everybody has just been going on about for the last couple of hours.

To be quite frank I haven't a clue.

I try to tell my guys all the time at 247 — and this is a work in progress to be quite frank — don't write about a guy at a camp that because he lost reps or because he won all these reps he's great, and all the sudden a Division I guy.

to be quite frank.

To be quite frank, Arsenal need a world class CF, Giroud and Welbeck still do not do it for me.