Use "frankness" in a sentence

1. His frankness clearly took

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2. In those of the former kind, liberality, frankness, and good fellowship, naturally make a part of their common character ; in the latter, narrowness, meanness, and a selfish disposition, averse to all social pleasure and enjoyment

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3. Upon such occasions the people assemble, and every one is said to declare with the greatest frankness what he is worth, in order to be taxed accordingly

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4. Appar�ently the President thought Whitey's frankness refresh�ing and wants him to infuse some of the same into the NSC

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5. ' she ignored the surprise on Gorham's face at the frankness of the talk

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6. When I have gone, it may be that your frankness will interfere with your getting along well with your brethren, both old and new

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7. The corporal and others of the military stared wide-eyed at Lezura, shocked by her smooth insertion of her authority over them and her frankness behind it

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8. I have to say in all frankness that the fighter tactics I learned in the United States have proved totally deficient

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9. Faye’s reputation would be severely damaged, and her frankness would call into question her upbringing

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10. Ingrid gave Griffith a sober look, appreciating his frankness

11. Grant was mesmerised by the frankness in the man’s words

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12. I don't give a Nomo's behind about you and your petty problems, you see,' Grobut said with unpleasant frankness

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13. Please excuse me if you find my words brutal, but we truly value frankness and honesty, Count

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14. Liana’s brutal frankness was meant to convince the ones responsible for the palace security that they could not ignore her: it worked

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15. Friend for his openness and frankness in coming to the House today

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16. ‘After all,’ he said kissing her hand, ‘it’s not that frankness alone brings a couple closer

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17. frankness, it sounded different to the ears of the listener

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18. The body is safe--far away, unassailable; and the spirit lets itself go out to meet a fellow spirit with the frankness it can never show when the body goes too, that grievous hinderer of the communion of saints, that officious blunderer who can spoil the serenest intercourse by a single blush

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19. I think I really must quarrel, for it isn't very decent to drop unexpectedly upon a person who from time to time has told you with the frankness that is her most marked feature that she doesn't want to be dropped upon

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20. He forgot the ladies, and stepping forward took her hand in his and quite simply kissed her forehead, sealing her then and there, with the perfect frankness of his countrymen when engaged in legitimate courtship, as his betrothed

21. MacArthur was stung by Novak"s frankness

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22. She smiled at him with the frankness of a pleased boy

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23. He thought her frankness, her unadorned way of saying what she felt, as refreshing and as surprising as being splashed with clear cold shining mountain water

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24. Priscilla had been charming; chatting with what seemed absolute frankness about her future life in the cottages, answering little questionings of Lady Shuttleworth's with a discretion and plausibility that would have warmed Fritzing's anxious heart, dwelling most, for here the ground was safest, on her uncle, his work, his gifts and character, and Lady Shuttleworth, completely fascinated, had offered her help of every sort, help in the arranging of her little home, in the planting of its garden, even in the building of those bathrooms about which Tussie had been told by Mr

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25. There was a frankness between them which, I must confess, considerably relieved me

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26. Early in their engagement Wemyss had expounded his theory to Lucy that there should be the most perfect frankness between lovers, while as for husband and wife there oughtn't to be a corner anywhere about either of them, mind, body, or soul, which couldn't be revealed to the other one

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27. I appeal to the honor of this night of frankness

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28. Ward in disbelief at his frankness and handed him the paper, not bothering to protest when he insisted I slide it across the desk to him secret-agent style

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29. Her frankness impressed me no end and I didn't hesitate

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30. But at the very moment, he was struck by the strangeness of his own frankness, and the eagerness with which he had made this explanation, though he had kept up all the preceding conversation with gloomy repulsion, obviously with a motive, from necessity

31. This confession drove her to frenzy, but yet she seems in a way to have liked my brutal frankness

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32. And with this kind of disposition she does more harm in this country than if the plague had got into it, for her affability and her beauty draw on the hearts of those that associate with her to love her and to court her, but her scorn and her frankness bring them to the brink of despair; and so they know not what to say save to proclaim her aloud cruel and

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33. answered very clearly with the coarsest frankness that the cause was his miserable position, his poverty and helplessness, and his desire to provide for his first steps in life by the help of the three thousand roubles he had reckoned on finding

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34. O, vindictive Julian! O, covetous Judas! Traitor, cruel, vindictive, and perfidious, wherein had this poor wretch failed in his fidelity, who with such frankness showed thee the secrets and the joys of his heart? What offence did I commit? What words did I utter, or what counsels did I give that had not the furtherance of thy honour and welfare for their aim?

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35. One of the young ladies asked Jo where she got the pretty drab hat she wore to the picnic and stupid Jo, instead of mentioning the place where it was bought two years ago, must needs answer with unnecessary frankness,

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36. Always mature for her age, she had gained a certain aplomb in both carriage and conversation, which made her seem more of a woman of the world than she was, but her old petulance now and then showed itself, her strong will still held its own, and her native frankness was unspoiled by foreign polish

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37. The friendly frankness was disturbed, the sunshine had a shadow over it, and despite their apparent gaiety, there was a secret discontent in the heart of each

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38. Bhaer would have gone decorously away, and come again another day, but how could he, when Jo shut the door behind him, and bereft him of his hat? Perhaps her face had something to do with it, for she forgot to hide her joy at seeing him, and showed it with a frankness that proved irresistible to the solitary man, whose welcome far exceeded his boldest hopes

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39. "Yes—a little," he replied, undecided between the frankness of his pleasure and his respect for his wife's opinion

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40. Here ceased the rapid flow of her self-reproving spirit; and Elinor, impatient to soothe, though too honest to flatter, gave her instantly that praise and support which her frankness and her contrition so well deserved

41. went up to him with the same open air of frankness as I had ever

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42. tenderness, what he meant; at which, with the same frankness and

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43. for a dry one, proposed to us, with that frankness which his familiarity at

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44. He had recognized intelligence in the high forehead, courage in the dark eye and bent brow, and frankness in the thick lips that showed a set of pearly teeth

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45. Felice?'—'I thought,' replied the young girl, with all the frankness of her nature, 'that I would give half my life for a costume such as she wore

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46. ” Rose’s frankness is revealing: the lobotomy had injured her as much as it had Rosemary

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47. I agree with you that complete frankness, however painful it may be to me, is the best policy in this desperate situation to which James's folly and jealousy have reduced us

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48. You asked for frankness, Mr

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49. The frankness of the answer pleased them all; my particular was complimented on his acquisition, and, by way of indirect flattery to me, openly envied me

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50. with asking him, in a tone turned to tenderness, what he meant; at which, with the same frankness and vivacity as he had begun with me , he proposed treating me with a glass of wine

51. After tea, and taking a turn in the garden, my particular, who was the master of the house, and had in no sense schemed this party of pleasure for a dry one, proposed to us, with that frankness which his familiarity at Mrs

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52. repute that ye hae for a gift of sagacity by common, and therefore I’ll open my mind to you in this matter, with a frankness that would not be a judicious polity with folk of a lighter understanding

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53. But at least it had the virtue of frankness

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54. There the envelopes are opened, indiscriminately, with the frankness of a brazen and childish impudence characteristic of some Spanish-American Governments

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55. He had never met Anna before, and was struck by her beauty, and still more by the frankness with which she

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56. “I don’t know if they’re getting louder or only closer,” he said, with a frankness he would have shown to very few others

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57. "My wish," said he, "is to hold nothing back, but to tell with perfect frankness all that occurred upon the night of the 21st of June

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58. Frankness personified, she remembered with an exaggerated horror that for the first and last time of her life she had concealed the truth from her husband about that very silver

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59. jealousy tortured her most of all, especially as he had unwarily told her, in a moment of frankness, that his mother knew him so little that she had had the audacity to try and persuade him to marry the young Princess Sorokina

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60. You don’t want to have the baby on the train or in a buggy, do you?” This medical frankness reduced the ladies to embarrassed blushes and silence

61. Why didn’t you come out in for if there’s one virtue I value in women it’s frankness

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62. They took her at her own valuation and endured much at her hands, her airs, her graces, her tempers, her arrogance, her downright rudeness and her frankness about their shortcomings

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63. "So have you—so have we all," said Marian, with the dry frankness of complete indifference to opinion

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64. There was so much frankness and so little jealousy because there was no hope

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65. To the decisive question as to what motive impelled him to the murder and the robbery, he answered very clearly with the coarsest frankness that the cause was his miserable position, his poverty and helplessness, and his desire to provide for his first steps in life by the help of the three thousand roubles he had reckoned on finding

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66. They believed, they told him with disarming frankness, that the earth was due for a thousand-year flood (“Aquarius, man … get it?”) and that in time the rockets would carry them to the safety of a new home in outer space

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67. Brooke with the friendliest frankness, and let him know in confidence that she thought him a poor creature

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68. The Vicar's frankness seemed not

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69. "Yes—a little," he replied, undecided between the frankness of his

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70. This child, to my memory, really lives in a setting of beauty and misery that no words can translate; there was a distinction all his own in every impulse he revealed; never was a small natural creature, to the uninitiated eye all frankness and freedom, a more ingenious, a more extraordinary little gentleman

71. Grose briefly silent; then she granted my point with a frankness which, I made sure, had more behind it

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72. The men of this party had both the quality and the defect of frankness in their opinions

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73. ‘I not only understood her, but it was just that inner, spiritual force, that sincerity, that frankness of soul- that very soul of hers which seemed to be fettered by her body- it was that soul I loved in her

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74. And with a Frenchman’s easy and naive frankness the captain told Pierre the story of his ancestors, his childhood, youth, and manhood, and all about his relations and his financial and family affairs, ‘ma pauvre mere’ playing of course an important part in the story

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75. Whether it was the wine he had drunk, or an impulse of frankness, or the thought that this man did not, and never would, know any of those who played a part in his story, or whether it was all these things together, something loosened Pierre’s tongue

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76. When he afterwards recalled that impulse to unsolicited and inexplicable frankness which had very important results for him, it seemed to him- as it seems to everyone in such cases- that it was merely some silly whim that seized him: yet that burst of frankness, together with other trifling events, had immense consequences for him and for all his family

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77. The ignorance of his colleagues, the weakness and insignificance of his opponents, the frankness of his falsehoods, and the dazzling and self-confident limitations of this man raise him to the head of the army

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78. He alone- with his ideal of glory and grandeur developed in Italy and Egypt, his insane self-adulation, his boldness in crime and frankness in lying- he alone could justify what had to be done

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79. smiled at him with all frankness

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80. 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

81. Besides, I was out of practice in talking to him: his reserve was again frozen over, and my frankness was congealed beneath it

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