Word: candor
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...then there was Rebekah. I had finally realized why the divorce flap was so upsetting. Relationships meant everything to her, and I had shortchanged her on candor. The open heart she had brought to Walter Reed deserved better. I apologized in a couple of long phone calls to California, promising full disclosure as the bedrock of our relationship from here...
...years I have spent listening to Iranian politicians fight viciously amongst themselves, I can report that a lack of candor is not a problem here. It is a mistake to elevate such social manners as taarof to an essential characteristic of political behavior. If an Iranian politician hedges a question, replies ambiguously, or reverses an earlier position, there are usually concrete reasons involved, and it would be more instructive to focus on those than a slippery Persian tendency toward dissembling...
What results is a mockery of American insensitivity, sweetly embodied by Sondra’s spunky candor and naiveté. Naturally, though, Allen’s exploration of this transatlantic cultural divide includes a few jabs at presumed British prestige. Leaving a party after a card trick, for example, Sid remarks, “I was just about to pull quarters out of the Lady’s nose...
...opinions ranged from doing nothing to raising rates 0.5%. The Fed raised rates 0.25% for a then 16th straight time. "You're much better off knowing what the controversies are than operating in ignorance," Bernanke said in a 2004 interview with the Minneapolis Fed. With his push for more candor and exchange, the expression of those controversies is sure only to grow, especially as the Fed attempts to steer the economy toward a soft landing...
...times. . . . [It] is the result of recent court decisions that have realistically interpreted America's obscenity laws and that have given to this country a new breadth of freedom of expression. . . . Eros takes full advantage of this new freedom of expression. It is the magazine of sexual candor. ... The publication of this magazine - which is frankly and avowedly concerned with erotica - has been enabled by recent court decisions ruling that a literary piece or painting, though explicitly sexual in content, has a right to be published if it is a genuine work of art. Eros is a genuine work...