straightforwardness

Example Sentences

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The straightforwardness of the process surprised her, but Madigan is now convinced she was the ideal actor to embody Gladys.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

There's a disarming straightforwardness to this conversation on a bench, spring flowers in the background.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024

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

His fair hair, his blue eyes, his habit of looking you straight in the face with a pleasant air of straightforwardness.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie