Word: forthright
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...relations with its Palestinian counterparts. Just last week, former negotiator Yossi Beilin tried to persuade the Labor Party to walk out of Sharon's unity government on the grounds that the prime minister lacks a strategy to restore peace. The bid failed, but dovish Labor leaders are becoming more forthright in their criticisms - Deputy Defense Minister Dalia Rabin-Pelosoff recently lamented that the government had failed to take advantage of the "window of opportunity" for restoring dialogue created by Arafat's December speech. And Knesset speaker Avram Burg has accepted an invitation to address the Palestinian legislature in Ramallah next...
Jennifer Connelly describes the woman she plays in A Beautiful Mind--Alicia, the wife of the brilliant, mad mathematician John Nash--as "forthright, gutsy, irreverent, a bit of a black sheep." Those qualities are certainly present in Connelly's luminous performance, but perhaps out of modesty, the actress doesn't mention her own shining, salient characteristic, which is intelligence of a particularly watchful kind...
...Guardian commentator Hugo Young was even more forthright, warning that "Guantanamo could be where America and Europe part company." He writes: "Secret hearings in military tribunals, of EU citizens who might face execution, will offend every European instinct. If that's what happens, even short of the execution factor, America can expect its own long drawn-out vengeance on al-Qaeda to be matched by a European public opinion increasingly roused against it. For, contrary to the myth of Anglo-America's unique respect for individual liberties, the continental ethic of human rights is even stronger...
...years older and the frail veteran of 47 years in politics; Pakistan's is a fit career soldier whose political life began just two years ago in a military coup. Vajpayee is a master orator given to flights of poetry; Musharraf is a plainspoken man with a blunt, forthright style. The first has succeeded by adroitly sidestepping conflict and finessing confrontation, the second by cutting straight to the core of a problem...
...they don't level with us, we lose faith. I think George W. Bush's father, for example, was a bit disingenuous about justifying the Gulf War action to the American people. He talked about defending Kuwait. But not much was said about oil. It would have been more forthright just to make it clear that our way of life couldn't continue without...