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Example sentences for: forthright

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Murdoch admitted he had asked HarperCollins to drop the book but said the executives should have been forthright about it, instead of inventing nonsensical reasons.
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.
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.
It's impossible to read his book, with its righteous denunciations of "tawdry voyeurism," and think his main complaint with the coverage of Clinton's sex life is that it wasn't forthright enough about the pleasures of disclosing the "private lives of public people."
The most forthright response to the initiatives comes from California Attorney General Dan Lungren.