They can set a tone for direct frankness about what is acceptable to discuss.
What it did do was address the most hyper-sensitive issue in this country with unique frankness.
Writing in the Times, Sean O'Neill says her evidence was "extraordinary in its frankness".
There is a level of frankness missing from the dialogue about U.S. - Cuban relations.
In an age of social media, this frankness and genuine belief in a cause spreads like wildfire.
With the frankness of an old pro, at one point Ms Bradford names different schools of royal-watching.
But while they brought a refreshing frankness and earned critical praise their films tended to be heavy and self-obsessed.
Politicians aren't known for their frankness - especially when it comes to admitting they need to do better.
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"High-speed rail has three advantages over air travel, " Si Xianmin is reported to have said with refreshing frankness.
At home, his high profile and frankness -- critics would say brashness -- set him apart from other tycoons.
Unless you see Vice President Joe Biden as the creator of presidential frankness.
With astonishing frankness they talk about their suffering and reveal their innermost emotions.
To say something while experiencing this kind of pain is to say it with utmost courage, frankness, determination and sincerity.
On October 18th, with commendable frankness, Reebok published a 41-page report on how it was walking this particular tightrope in Indonesia.
Russian officials such as Ilya Klebanov, the much-criticised deputy prime minister who oversaw the rescue effort, seem to think they have been models of frankness.
And although he intersperses candour with tact, assuring us that the young Saudi princes are smarter and more durable than we tend to think, frankness wins out in the end.
She has shown herself to be over the years lacking in frankness and veracity with the media and manipulative and selective in what she has chosen to reveal about herself.
But the well-regarded CEO also promised to do the job, and brought a new air of frankness and accountability that several shareholders--including retired Schering employees and founder Abe Plough's former lawyer--applauded.
In the village of Salatiga Mandor two hours north of Pontianak in West Kalimantan, Johannes Sone, a Dayak, talks with bracing frankness about the brutal ethnic cleansing of Madurese immigrants from his area.
These include Miki Tanikawa's revealing online discussions with Japanese kids in an Internet chat room, where they poured out their fears and hopes with a frankness not possible in a face-to-face conversation.
For most of Mr Koizumi's term, beginning with the terrorist attacks on America in September 2001, the Japanese have been debating their security policy with a frankness that would once have been unimaginable.
And I can tell you that the frankness and the directness and the no nonsense approach that I think you're all familiar with, coming from him, is something that will clearly come through in his memoirs.
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But always alert to the danger of modern overinterpretation, she notes the ingenuousness, the innocence inherent in such frankness and, given how little his readers seemed to be aware, she wonders no more how much Melville understood himself.
In that sort of relationship, as President Obama rightly described, there are moments that we speak frankly to each other and that frankness will only add to the strength of the relationship and contribute to the successes that we have.
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Mr Obama's frankness is welcome.
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With disarming frankness, she takes on her family one by one: her father (a moderniser only by his tribe's strict standards), her jealous, superstitious mother, her sisters, who suffer a range of tragic fates, her sad feckless brother, who fails in almost all his traditional duties, except that of beating his sisters.
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