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“These discussions are very frank and oddly not at all awkward,” Kao told the FBI.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 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

“The president and I have both been very frank about the many disagreements that we have and immigration is one of those places,” Mamdani said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

So he often speaks, frank yet cautious, ironic, as if always aware that I see and judge as an alien: a singular awareness in one of so isolate a race and so high a rank.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Never was a novel written with a franker or more deliberate purpose than that shown in For the Term of his Natural Life.

From Australian Writers by Desmond Byrne

Passages like these are some of the frankest and most resonant I have read about what death does to the bereaved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2022

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

He is the frankest gentleman of heaven, and so infinitely obliging!

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover