frank
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“These discussions are very frank and oddly not at all awkward,” Kao told the FBI.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
“A very, very frank analysis of a candidate’s strengths and weaknesses is a part of every executive search,” said Martha Heller, CEO of technology executive recruiting firm Heller Search Associates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The show was frank in its portrayal of, among other subjects, social isolation, economic disparity, the immigrant experience and unconventional families.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
I think it’s a lot more humane, to be quite frank.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026
He moved closer, smiling now, but without the leer she expected; his face was frank and delighted.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
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
But a South Korean presidential adviser offered a franker assessment.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2019
I would like to believe that this is a watershed moment, that the downfall of so many powerful men will curb others, that we will have franker conversations about what needs to change.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2017
Between men and women who have established what they believe to be an unemotional friendship there nearly always springs up a relation franker than any which is otherwise possible.
From Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author by Leslie Burton Blades
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
Reynold had spoken out of the bitterness of his heart, and a bitter frankness is the frankest of all.
From Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel by Margaret Veley
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