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To Grande’s point, and to be especially frank, that is more on those people and how their support systems help them better understand those images than her.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026

Ten years after World War I, a decade during which governments began to mobilize public opinion on an unprecedented scale, Edward Bernays offered “Propaganda,” a remarkably frank guide to mass persuasion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

And under Xi, Zhu's style of open, frank talk by officials has been replaced by a much more staid, closed-off approach.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

She said they had "a positive and frank engagement" with the secretary of state and agreed with the other parties that sufficient funding was needed.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

But she disapproved of Mr. Pontellier’s club, and she was frank enough to tell Edna so.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

Temptingly, he explained that “the theater, behind the scenes, has an emotional freemasonry of its own, certainly franker and arguably wholesomer than the stiffness of suburban society outside.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

Kozinn and Sinclair paint her as a complex person, occasionally haughty or petty, but franker and more open with the press.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2022

Maybe it would open the door for a franker conversation about his functionality that he is as yet too ashamed to broach?

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2021

It was, said Bobby Wagner, an ugly win by the Seahawks — a frank assessment for which wide receiver Tyler Lockett had a slightly franker amendment.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2019

There is freer, franker discussion of many things that their parents would scarcely have dared mention, yet I feel sure the moral tone is distinctly higher.

From The Meaning of Evolution by Samuel Christian Schmucker

In 2020 your sister published “Open Book,” which is one of the frankest celebrity memoirs I’ve read.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025

In framing this as the frankest discussion of their marriage to date, they manage to get away with saying very little.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2020

Ellison’s closeness with Wright brings out some of his frankest early letters.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019

“This may be the frankest and most important presidential correspondence of this century,” he told the New York Times.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2018

She is one of the brightest, frankest, and most natural girls I know.'

From Dorothy's Double Volume I (of 3) by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty