plainspoken

1 The philosophical conversations about God, heaven, hell, death and morality were refreshingly plainspoken.

2 Thoughtful and plainspoken in equal doses, he is renowned for being uncompromising and idiosyncratic in his work.

3 When he ambles over to introduce himself, with his easy smile and slightly down-home drawl, his voice sings with a kind of plainspoken poetry.

4 But while movies were a smaller part of Macdonald’s output, his plainspoken, deadpan comedy could be all the more distinct on the big screen.

5 A scratchy singer at best, he makes up for it with plainspoken lyrics that cut down to the bone and through it.

6 In strong, plainspoken melodies that emerged through moody harmonic clouds — and in the way Ms. Cheng caressed and molded them — came intimations of another composer: Chopin.

7 It’s also a good distillation of her language, an argument for its unforced insight and plainspoken grace.

8 I knew I was delivering an ultimatum, and normally I’m not a fan of ultimatums, but in that circumstance it seemed necessary to be that plainspoken about the cost of his refusal to seek help.

9 With a 66% approval rating, López Obrador is one of the world’s most popular presidents, beloved by many for his plainspoken style and his pledge to put the poor first in a country beset by entrenched inequality.

10 Shot without flourishes, the movie has a plainspoken visual flow to it.

11 Mountain Man stands out in that scene, for the plainspoken beauty of its vocal blend and the spooky composure behind its starkness.

12 A day after raising eyebrows with a tweet that conflated his social-media success with the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., the actor issued a plainspoken mea culpa.

13 Listen to how his actors speak, tumbling over each other’s lines; how they elegantly yet decisively maneuver within the frame; how the plainspoken technique works perfectly to propel the story.

14 Her songs remained long, labyrinthine and allusive, but they also had moments of plainspoken intimacy.

15 Like so much of Kozol’s work, “The Theft of Memory” addresses important issues about a defenseless segment of society, the elderly, with plainspoken clarity and deep-felt compassion.

16 It is an echo of Hemingway’s more eager and brash equivocations in the drafts, a claim that there was an unseen depth to his plainspoken prose.

17 The raw emotion is a little unexpected from Tirschwell, a plainspoken fast talker who last year mounted a brief Republican primary campaign for New York City mayor.

18 The music showed Bernstein reaching back to the historicity of early music, harnessing his abundant melodic gift to a kind of plainspoken freshness.

19 Our friendship was built on a plainspoken candor that I think we both enjoyed.

20 You’ve heard some of MEN’s sound before: the cowbells and pulsing-octave bass lines and ropy guitars; and a nice, atmospheric, plainspoken track called “Rip Off” beats you to your conclusions.

1 率直

simple single round square broad plump upstanding straight out without reservation plain dealing

2 说真的

let's face it

3 坦率的

easy round straight explicit bluff outspoken flat-out unguarded man-to-man heart-to-heart open-face straight-out barefaced openhearted straight-from-the-shoulder

4 率直的

simple single round square broad plump upstanding

5 直言不讳的

round vocal explicit blunt candid outspoken

6 说实话

truly tell it like it is

7 坦率

easy round straight explicit bluff outspoken flat-out unguarded man-to-man heart-to-heart open-face straight-out barefaced openhearted straight-from-the-shoulder plain freely openly foursquare freedom from the shoulder come into the open in spades man to man

8 坦白的

open simple direct honest plain naked frank candid outspoken ingenuous openhearted free-hearted

9 坦白

open simple direct honest plain naked frank candid outspoken ingenuous openhearted free-hearted simplicity confession candor naivete