Our system of government depends on certain standards of honesty and forthrightness, many of which are implicit and need not be articulated.
I greatly appreciated his qualities of courage and forthrightness, his personal kindness to all he met and his wise advice to me.
We welcome the clarity and forthrightness of that pledge.
There is nothing to lose by forthrightness across the table.
He made a speech of considerable charm and forthrightness.
His speeches have two great qualities—namely, forthrightness and conviction.
I hope he will forgive my forthrightness because this is an important question.
They had the courage to put forward realistic views which many of us, perhaps, would be diffident about doing with such forthrightness.
