straightforwardness
Example Sentences
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There's a disarming straightforwardness to this conversation on a bench, spring flowers in the background.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024
What I admire is the extraordinary seriousness, straightforwardness, bluntness that hasn’t turned to bitterness or cynicism or nihilism in the face of this.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023
Schrader films “She Said” with a bracing combination of straightforwardness and sensitivity, staging the most prurient details of Weinstein’s cases with somber restraint rather than salacious literalism.
From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2022
Sen. Ben Cardin, Maryland Democrat, credited the bill’s straightforwardness as to why it was able to move so swiftly through both chambers of Congress.
From Washington Times • Feb. 10, 2022
And look at the modest, talky straightforwardness of phrases like, “It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. ”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
