I think, your Grace, that this can only be done by absolute frankness between us.
He used to say himself, half jokingly: "I believe in a profitable philanthropy," which illustrates one of his characteristic traits--his absolute frankness.
I DID own the manuscript, indeed," answered Signor Rafael with absolute frankness; "but I do not own it any longer.
So now we cannot do without absolute sexual frankness, whatever our previous reservations might have been.
It is, in fact, fearless; never coarse, although the relations between Paul, Miriam, and Clara are portrayed with absolute frankness.
He watched the private and public conduct of his kings and nobles, and criticised them with absolute frankness and extraordinary common sense.
But I must have from you the most absolute frankness without regard to conventional appearances or to your own feelings.
I spoke to her with absolute frankness and asked her to do the same.
"I need not point out to you that unless the most absolute frankness----" The patient sprang from his chair.
"Please remember," reminded Garry, coldly, "that an established privilege of mine, since I undertook this Hague stuff, is absolute frankness."