frankness
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The frankness of the RBA’s communications is both refreshing and also alarming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
“Wake me up in a hundred years, ask me what is happening in Russia,” mused Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, a 19th-century satirist, “and I’ll tell you with my usual frankness: We steal, we drink, we make war.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
“With his unconventional frankness and tenderness, he drew out people’s hidden qualities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025
It was that honesty and frankness, combined with his biting touch, that made Stephen Colbert such a TV icon.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2025
The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint: the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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