Men admired Gippius' outspokenness too: of her inner conflicts, full of 'demonic temptations' (inevitable for the one whose mission was 'creating one's new, true soul', as she saw it), Gippius spoke with unusual frankness.

She also talks with unusual frankness about the difficulties the Chiracs have faced in their marriage.

In 1933 Woolsey announced that, in spite of the book's 'unusual frankness, I do not detect anywhere the leer of the sensualist.

In the meantime, Ethiopia's overtures to the United States are being accompanied by unusual frankness on the domestic front.

Prince Charles's frankness, unusual in Britain's usually noncommittal royal family, has sometimes had pronounced results.

Sipping tea in his living room, Mr. Frankenheimer, tall and craggy-faced, discussed his career and Hollywood with unusual frankness.

The State Department has criticized Turkey with unusual frankness several times since Mr. Erbakan took office.

And in numerous places throughout the document, the United States and Mexico, with unusual frankness about their respective strengths and failures, pledged to seek common ground.

"China has been groping in the last year," People's Daily acknowledged with unusual frankness in a New Year's editorial.

Mr. Adams, speaking in his small office in a dingy downtown Dublin building, discussed the peace effort with unusual frankness, in terms of his personal doubts and depressions.