Example sentences for: forthrightness

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

  • That "modern" note is largely absent from Parker's adaptation, in which Gertrude is the soulful center and Blanchett's performance is radiant in its forthrightness.

  • But we wouldn't know about Dowd's failure to muster a response, or about Lewinsky's poise and forthrightness, unless Dowd herself had chosen to tell us.

  • Clinton's impending punishment may be unjust, but as a character he lacks Billy's innocence and forthrightness.

  • The style is naturalistic; the plot is your basic love triangle, with a lesbian twist: Adele, whose butch forthrightness makes her an obvious stand-in for Stein, falls for a frustrating coquette, Helen, who returns her love but can't commit because she's already beholden to Mabel, a rich, withered-spinster type.


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