frank
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Peet is excited by the frank portrayal of it all onscreen: “Seeing more middle-aged women in leading roles makes it more likely that you’re gonna be able to touch on these things.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
“It’s important to get that balance where you have time alone with your family and with your friends, where people feel like you can have a safe and frank exchange,” she added.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 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
That the memoir is so very frank stirs up trouble with her boyfriend, a much younger man.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
The S&P people were cagey, but the woman from Moody’s was surprisingly frank.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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
Other nocturnal blossoms deploy scents like siren calls: The creamy whorls of the moonflower vine hint at vanilla and sunscreen, while the heavy bells of brugmansia are franker and muskier in aura, verging on narcotic.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 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
But a South Korean presidential adviser offered a franker assessment.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2019
He glanced at Miriam and hesitated, yet when he spoke it was in a franker voice than the one she was used to hear.
From Moor Fires by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young
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
Would you say that the latest episode of Red Table Talk features the show’s frankest discussion of infidelity yet?
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 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
His treatment of women, for example, compares unfavourably with that shown in the frankest tales of Bret Harte.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
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The Diary of Anne Frank
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