disarmingly frank

Some industry chiefs are disarmingly frank about its shortcomings.

He can be intensely private yet disarmingly frank.

She is disarmingly frank, clever, quick to laugh.

"As my insurance," Kerguelen said with a disarmingly frank smile.

The Baron was smoothly reassuring, and disarmingly frank.

Mr. Trump, who recently turned 50, is back in large measure because of market forces outside his control, and he is disarmingly frank about it.

He had won over her bodyguards by dint of being disarmingly frank about his affection for her.

Benson was being disarmingly frank.

Mr. Apted is tall, slender, disarmingly frank and a bit patrician in manner.

Didn't dare," I added, disarmingly frank.

The staffer was disarmingly frank, and whatever Sola was, she was no hypocrite.

Mr. Takyi, who sleeps and works in the same gray T-shirt, is disarmingly frank about his household.

If everything goes as planned, fans should be swooning at Mr. Johnston's disarmingly frank, startlingly sweet songs.

It is crisply written, disarmingly frank and self-critical, rich in felicitous turns and well-told episodes.

He had a long, narrow face with a hawk nose and a wide forehead with eyebrows set high above hazel eyes that were disarmingly frank to look upon.

Mark Gaskell - Conway Jefferson's son-in-law, keen, ruthless, and disarmingly frank.

At times, reading his narrative is a bit like listening to a stand-up routine, but strangely it never becomes tiring, perhaps because Paddy is so disarmingly frank.

Refreshingly, the party's current front bench spokesman on Northern Ireland, Kevin McNamara, has been disarmingly frank about Labour's behaviour.

"The melomani are right," a disarmingly frank Mr. Safina conceded on a recent promotional swing through New York.

The labyrinth inscribed on Mrs. Gerlovina's delicate features implies that however disarmingly frank she appears, her expression masks a mazelike complexity.

KENNETH CLARKE has always been disarmingly frank.

The self-analysis is disarmingly frank, 'Keith Fletcher and Geoff Arnold have both said that I'm my own biggest enemy, that I don't believe in myself.

And Ms. Pearson was disarmingly frank in a scene in which she moved restlessly while confessing how annoyed she was when a dying friend took such a long time to die.

Vulnerable, corny and disarmingly frank, a film in which people don't just weep but slobber and moan, "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles" drives melodrama right off the map.

Mr. Raup seems to have relatively few doubts about his own conclusions, but he is disarmingly frank in acknowledging that he is an advocate of the meteorite theory of extinctions.