Word: forthright
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...destroyed, along with his extensive collection of bric-a-brac. Persevering, he bought new equipment and traveled to the Hampstead Institute in Virginia, where he did his most modernist work. Hampstead was a progressive "college" for black and Native American students. The pictures that Day did there are flat, forthright portraits of confident subjects. They feature beautiful, dark gray tones set in a black field, punctuated by the whites of his subjects' eyes. In this series, Day seems to have become comfortable with the documentary attitude of much modern photography...
...responses occasionally hindered by a thick Quebecois accent, Hengartner nonetheless proved an important spokesman for the Gore team - unfortunately for the vice president, the forthright Yale professor proved almost as valuable to the Bush effort. Under questioning by Gore attorney Stephen Zack, Hengartner, who qualified as an "expert" witness, painstakingly explicated a pile of placards bearing simplified bar graphs and carefully highlighted statistics, simultaneously charming the courtroom and making a solid case that the newly famous Votomatic voting machines (used in Palm Beach County) are more likely to fail or register incomplete voter choices than other voting methods...
Sternin--who has met with Illingworth at least three times--said the associate dean has been forthright...
...need to resolve this election in a way that is fair and forthright, and in a way that is fully consistent with the Constitution and our laws," Gore said. "Because of what is at stake, this matter must be resolved expeditiously, but deliberately and without any rush to judgment...
Speaking in a manner many who attended described as forthright, McCaffrey reviewed arguments for a coherent drug policy...