frankness

Example Sentences

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“There was a frankness in my Uncle Toby,” says Tristram, “which let you at once into his soul.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

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

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

Some in government admit that they expected a positive response to Reeves's radical frankness about what the government could and could not afford to do.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025

Yet Maggie, Kate, and Leah’s “whole deportment exhibited … frankness and sincerity …” Greeley found himself trusting these sisters.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock