Example sentences for: forthright

How can you use “forthright” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The European model has the advantage of being forthright: The government declares that it wants more Puccini than the market provides on its own, and it writes a check to pay for it.

  • (John McCain is a hard case, being conventionally brave and forthright but also kind of a cutup; his crack about propping up a dead Alan Greenspan à la Weekend at Bernie's was very fin de siècle .) However, to give an appropriate nod to the underdogs, the TR model also speaks well for the chances of Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch, and Alan Keyes (none of whom has an ironic or decadent bone in his body, as far as Chatterbox can see).

  • He is seductively forthright about the failures in his life, about the fiasco of his career and marriage in the Hollywood of the 1960s, and he is aware of the conditional, codependent quality of his fame.

  • The most forthright response to the initiatives comes from California Attorney General Dan Lungren.

  • Brocade or chiffon dresses covered in who-knows-what utterances in beautiful Chinese and Arabic script, or dresses wittily made of paper printed with the New York Yellow Pages, all express a joyful relish in the decay of the written word, a forthright pleasure in the way its meaning has been draining away.


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