They respond to her plain-spoken manner, her unadorned style, her pleas for a new German patriotism.

So while nonfiction sales are generally good, he said, fiction sales are best defined, in Mr. Rosenthal's usual plain-spoken manner, by an expletive.

Mr. Morahan, 68, is a former majority leader of the County Legislature who has a brusque, plain-spoken manner that puts off some people.

Her plain-spoken manner and telegenic vitality made her a genuine celebrity and an invaluable advocate for the fine arts.

She leavened a plain-spoken manner with wisecracks.

An experienced Supreme Court advocate by that time, he argued the case himself in the straightforward, plain-spoken manner that was the hallmark of his courtroom style.

Marshall presented the case in his plain-spoken manner.

BUT hated by many others for his plain-spoken manner.

In public, his enthusiasm, sophistication, ambition and intelligence are shrouded behind a bland, plain-spoken manner.

Eisenhower was popular with his troops partly because his cheerful, plain-spoken manner reflected their own reticence: the so-called Greatest Generation served without a sense of entitlement.