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candour
1. ’ She complained, appreciating his candour
2. than about that of the society, their judgment, even when given with the greatest candour (which it has not been upon every occasion), is much more to be depended upon with regard to the former of those two objects, than with regard to the latter
3. The teachers of each sect, seeing themselves surrounded on all sides with more adversaries than friends, would be obliged to learn that candour and moderation which are so seldom to be found among the teachers of those great sects, whose tenets, being supported by the civil magistrate, are held in veneration by almost all the inhabitants of extensive kingdoms and empires, and who, therefore, see nothing round them but followers, disciples, and humble admirers
4. He laughed and more than anything I appreciated his candour and burst out laughing with him
5. In his books, ‘The Rainbow,’ and ‘Women In Love,’ he explored with candour the sexual and psychological relationships between men and women
6. He had the candour to agree, but asked me not to put it around too much
7. Tom too had quickly glanced at the falling body, but the item just received had history and danger surrounding it, and what was happening would seem minor to the problems this would bring if not dealt with wisely, and with candour
8. This sudden candour had to be a facade to cover for his snooping around
9. With a smile of the utmost candour, Sanjay drew a letter from his pocket and with quiet sincerity began the task of resurrecting his son’s good name
10. you tie for the woman with the weary face; hand trust and candour with the
11. ’ Yet surely, such disarming candour is but proof of his effort at objectivity
12. She thought of him continually, relishing his humour, his teasing of her, the warmth and candour of his love
13. Could you fix an appointment for me with Mr Shah? I wish to contest the elections in alliance with the BJP,’ she said, with refreshing candour
14. The truth is there was candour in this
15. She turned and John saw the shine of tears in her eyes, “Thank you for your candour,” she said softly
16. The candour of Dolly's brow is an exact reflection of the candour of her mind
17. Then, with a white flare of candour, "He's a bigger thing than I am
18. The candour the prime minister and the vice-president enjoyed was a measure of their
19. Her obtuseness to the real situation was so terribly healthy minded that it was almost a disease; the awful candour of soul of bishops' daughters and pastors' wives appalled him
20. I, who have so often scolded you, who have never spared the lash of my tongue when in past years I saw fair reason to apply it, I tell you now with the same reliable candour that your actions in this village and the motives that prompted them have been in each single case of a stainless nobility
21. "I beg your pardon?" she said, a little shocked at Shay's candour
22. nothing short of candour and honesty on the old man's part
23. He himself, with characteristic candour, confesses that they long caused delay in his acceptance of his later views
24. Let this general declaration serve for each of my suitors on his own account, and let it be understood from this time forth that if anyone dies for me it is not of jealousy or misery he dies, for she who loves no one can give no cause for jealousy to any, and candour is not to be confounded with scorn
25. but she replied to him with great sprightliness and candour, 'My dear sir, you are very much mistaken, and your ideas are very old-fashioned, if you think that I have made a bad choice in So-and-so, fool as he seems; because for all I want with him he knows as much and more
26. Because lips libertine and venal had murmured such words to him, he believed but little in the candour of hers; exaggerated speeches hiding mediocre affections must be discounted; as if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sorrows; and since human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars
27. An exquisite candour emanated from his being
28. True; for he only considered the being deceived, as an effort of skill he had not guarded against; and then, with a cant of candour, would
29. And, furthermore, that those partitions, being too high to climb over, the people confined in each menaced compartment had to stay there and become asphyxiated or roasted, because no exits to the outside, say to the roof, had been provided! What would you think of the intelligence or candour of these advertising people? What would you think of them? And yet, apart from the obvious difference in the action of fire and water, the cases are essentially the same
30. -- "And if they really do interest themselves," said Marianne, in her new character of candour, "in bringing about a reconciliation, I shall think that even John and Fanny are not entirely without merit
31. There was about him a candour and gentleness which made the women trust him
32. consistently with candour and good nature, it can have no foundation but
33. But with what fitness, let it be asked of the noble lord, his patron, has this alien, whom the concession of a gracious prince has admitted to civic rights, constituted himself the lord paramount of our internal polity? Where is now that gratitude which loyalty should have counselled? During the recent war whenever the enemy had a temporary advantage with his granados did this traitor to his kind not seize that moment to discharge his piece against the empire of which he is a tenant at will while he trembled for the security of his four per cents? Has he forgotten this as he forgets all benefits received? Or is it that from being a deluder of others he has become at last his own dupe as he is, if report belie him not, his own and his only enjoyer? Far be it from candour to violate the bedchamber of a respectable lady, the daughter of a gallant major, or to cast the most distant reflections upon her virtue but if he challenges attention there (as it was indeed highly his interest not to have done) then be it so
34. Still candour compelled him to admit he had washed his wife's undergarments when soiled in Holles street and women would and did too a man's similar garments initialled with Bewley and Draper's marking ink (hers were, that is) if they really loved him, that is to say, love me, love my dirty shirt
35. round you like a new world I could write the answer in bed to let him imagine me short just a few words not those long crossed letters Atty Dillon used to write to the fellow that was something in the four courts that jilted her after out of the ladies letterwriter when I told her to say a few simple words he could twist how he liked not acting with precipat precip itancy with equal candour the greatest earthly happiness answer to a gentlemans proposal affirmatively my goodness theres nothing else its all very fine for them but as for being a woman as soon as youre old they might as well throw you out in the bottom of the ashpit
36. I must therefore trust to the candour of your judgment, for your allowing for the disadvantage I am necessarily under in that respect; and to your imagination and sensibility, the pleasing taks of repairing it, by their supplements, where my descriptions flag or fail: the one will readily place the pictures I present before your eyes; the other give life to the colours where they are dull, or worn with too frequent handling
37. The invincible candour of the gaze, raised up all violet and dew, excited her rage and admiration
38. There is no candour in a story of early manhood which leaves out of account the home-sickness for nursery morality,
39. Now it was different; there was nothing but humility and friendly candour in the way she spoke
40. for candour could hold out against it much longer
41. At the last moment her courage had failed her; she feared his blame for not telling him sooner; and her instinct of self-preservation was stronger than her candour
42. However, I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy; and as much for the manner in which it was said, as for the substance of the speech; the manner was frank and sincere; one does not often see such a manner: no, on the contrary, affectation, or coldness, or stupid, coarse-minded misapprehension of one’s meaning are the usual rewards of candour
43. nor candour, nor refinement in her mind or manners— and, I married her:—gross, grovelling, mole-eyed blockhead that I was! With less sin I might have—But let me remember to whom I am speaking
44. “I may venture to say that HIS observations have stretched much further than your candour
45. In some circles, we know, she would never be admitted, but with good dinners, and large parties, there will always be those who will be glad of her acquaintance; and there is, undoubtedly, more liberality and candour on those points than formerly
46. Interpret my words with candour and answer me, I conjure you, with confidence and sincerity
47. Let me tell the reader, he will perhaps be horrified at the candour of my confession, and in the simplicity of his heart will wonder how the author could help blushing : but my answer is that I'm not writing for publication, and I may not have a reader for ten years, and by that time everything will be so thoroughly past, settled and defined that there will be no need
48. It is wonderful how much older and less good-looking you have grown in these years ; please forgive this candour, you were thirty-seven even then, though, I gazed at you with admiration; what wonderful hair you had, almost jet black, with a brilliant lustre without a trace of grey; moustaches and whiskers, like the setting of a jewel: I can find no other expression for it; your face of an even pallor; not like its sickly pallor to-day, but like your daughter, Anna Andreyevna, whom I had the honour of seeing this morning ; dark, glowing eyes, and gleaming teeth, especially when you laughed
49. Such unnatural candour only shows your lofty purity, your respect for me, your faith in me !" I cried incoherently
50. "The truth, the holy truth and candour before all things! I will capture them by candour
