frankness
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Portraits come in many incarnations—the rigorous realism of Holbein, the rococo elegance of Gainsborough, the harsh frankness of Lucian Freud, to name just a few.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Billops’s questions to Van Der Zee give shape to the book’s narrative, and the subject’s frankness charms his dialogue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Judge John Woosley ruled that in “ ‘Ulysses,’ in spite of its unusual frankness, I do not detect anywhere the leer of the sensualist.”
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2025
“With his unconventional frankness and tenderness, he drew out people’s hidden qualities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025
This priest’s frankness had touched me more than a decree.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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