Word: forthright
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...treating this challenging theme in a simple, forthright manner, Warner Brothers has achieved something fine, the antidote to the illness of a confused world...
...least has remained true to his credo. From the day in 1902 when his first slim volume of Salt-Water Ballads rolled off a London press, John Masefield the poet has kept close companionship with the hearts of a generation of British and U.S. readers. In rhythms as forthright as the beat of a yeoman's pulse and lines as graceful as the curtsy of a tall East Indiaman in the wallow of a seaway, his verses have sung of the countrysides Britons love, of the sports and sportsmen dear to their hearts and of the gallant voyaging that...
Critics have praised De Siea for his realism in scenes which occur as the trail leads the father and son to an open-air bicycle market, a medium's home, and a bordello. Unlike the forthright realism of his "Shoeshine," however De Siea's treatment here is often contrived. At one point the boy falls into a puddle while running after his father, an incident which seems injected for the sole purpose of proving the film's spontaneity of detail. The photography is consistently fine, but at times it also appears too forced for true dramatic impact...
...Cannibal" is a short, stubby book with a forthright jacket; it fits neatly into your pocket. Its content is neither forthright, nor neat, nor stubby, and it is not classifiable by any other standard whatever...
...Colonel Bertie McCormick, wanted to abandon the bipartisan foreign policy, but he was briskly quashed. Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge fought vainly for a more vigorous civil-rights plank. Cried Lodge: "We've got to get the ball and run with it. We must declare our forthright determination to break a filibuster if necessary...