All 5 Uses of
forthright
in
Gone with the Wind
- She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound about it, and to the end of her days she would never be able to understand a complexity.†
Chpt 1.2
- Ellen never would, or could, quite become one of them—she had left too much of herself in Savannah—but she respected them and, in time, learned to admire the frankness and forthrightness of these people, who had few reticences and who valued a man for what he was.†
Chpt 1.3
- Suddenly she found her tongue and just as suddenly all the years of Ellen's teachings fell away, and the forthright Irish blood of Gerald spoke from his daughter's lips.†
Chpt 1.6
- That was fortunate, for if she could have spoken she would have cried out truths couched in Gerald's forthright words.†
Chpt 2.9 *
- She found that he would give her anything she desired, answer any question she asked as long as she was forthright, and refuse her anything she attempted to gain by indirection, hints and feminine angling.†
Chpt 5.50
Definition:
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(forthright) directness (honest without subtlety or evasion)