plainspoken
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We tend to see Hopper’s pictures now as unique, as central to our sense of early-20th-century America: plainspoken, free of artiness, content to offer a blunt, disquieting vision of our urban lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
But the diminutive man’s plainspoken demeanor failed to gain traction with California voters — a 1991 Times profile deemed him “the unknown senator.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
On paper, he’s the kind of figure they imagine can bridge the divide: a plainspoken Mainer.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2025
Kristofferson's plainspoken vocals may have lacked range but they carried something more important - conviction.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2024
It was the plainspoken convictions of one of Atlanta’s numerous young black collegians who often visited our local Temple Fifteen.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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