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candid as in:  your candid opinion

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  • My candid opinion is that their team is much better than ours, but an upset isn't impossible.
  • It was called "The Economic Stability Bill," but a more candid name might have been "The Protect Established Businesses from Competition Bill."
    candid = honest and straightforward
  • McCandless was candid with Stuckey about his intent to spend the summer alone in the bush, living off the land.   (source)
  • ...with full candor, hiding no faults and pretending no virtues.   (source)
    candor = honesty and directness
  • "Because," answered Mr. Jamison candidly, "there aren't enough of those same white people who would admit how they feel, or even if they did, would hang a white man for killing a black one."   (source)
    candidly = honestly and directly
  • Her candor and exquisite simplicity framed the rest of my trip and helped me better understand the land I was living in.   (source)
    candor = honesty and directness
  • He had confronted the problem head-on . . . truthful, candid, shining like an example to all.   (source)
    candid = honest and direct
  • His face was completely questioning and candid.   (source)
    candid = honest
  • Her candor made it painfully clear that she believed what she was saying.   (source)
    candor = honesty and directness
  • Father and Mother's biggest mistake in dealing with the van Daans is that they're never candid...  Mrs. van D. can be won over by talking openly to her and admitting when you're wrong.   (source)
    candid = completely honest and straightforward
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  • I didn't know if we were still being as candid today.   (source)
    candid = honest and straightforward
  • "He has no sense of fun or adventure," she said, listlessly stirring her coffee. "Suleiman is a brooding old man trapped in a younger man's body."
    I was a little startled by her offhand candor. "It is true that Mr. Wandati is uniquely comfortable with solitude," I said, opting for cautious diplomacy.   (source)
    candor = honesty and directness
  • I was surprised by his candidness and said so.   (source)
    candidness = directness
  • "Yes, sir," Danny said candidly, "my daddy got fired from his teaching job and that's why we're in Colorado, I guess."   (source)
    candidly = with honesty and directness
  • To be perfectly candid, yes. He should be ashamed of himself!   (source)
    candid = honest and straightforward
  • "I lied," Magnus admitted candidly.   (source)
    candidly = with honesty and directness
  • It deals candidly with emotion, and, unlike other children's shows, tells children that it's okay not to be happy all of the time.   (source)
  • And when he had finished he sat with folded arms and a pleased smile, as though waiting to be commended for the humor, the clarity, and the candor of his traveler's tale.   (source)
    candor = direct honesty
  • Such candor hasn't been easy in his first few days home.   (source)
    candor = honesty and directness
  • she could handle him, turn him, get him to match her mood, rouse him easily or make him talk, talk--acid candid shameful stuff, bitter-funny.   (source)
    candid = honest and straightforward
  • Farmer said, "If I might be so candid, we need help."   (source)
  • The chaplain would encourage Nately with nods of comprehension or assent, amused by his candor and immaturity.   (source)
    candor = honesty and directness
  • I'd like to hear your candid assessment.   (source)
    candid = honest and straightforward
  • One student laid it wide open when she said with complete candor, "Of course you can't eliminate the degree and grading system. After all, that's what we're here for."   (source)
    candor = honesty and directness
  • He'd learned long ago that candor can jump back on you with teeth.   (source)
    candor = direct honesty
  • In a candid moment, his instructor had told the troops that they had little chance of prevailing against someone much bigger,   (source)
    candid = honest
  • I am intrigued, Edward, by your candid, if incomplete, information.   (source)
    candid = honest and straightforward
  • He used candor as a weapon.   (source)
    candor = honesty and directness
  • She was looking straight at him; her eyes seemed just a bit too candid.   (source)
    candid = honest and direct
  • "I'm willing to own up that I made a mistake," she concluded candidly, "but I've learned a lesson."   (source)
    candidly = with honesty and directness
  • But candor compelled me to admit that there hadn't been much of an evening to ruin.   (source)
    candor = honesty and directness
  • He was supple and swift and flushed; his eyes (which he believed to be cynical) were candidly eager.   (source)
    candidly = with honesty and directness
  • I think it but candid to acknowledge that, in a subsequent conversation, he told me that he was serious in what he said.   (source)
    candid = honest and direct
  • Lena, who was almost as candid as Nature,   (source)
  • Such an episode in the Island's grand naval story her naval historians naturally abridge; one of them (G.P.R. James) candidly acknowledging that...   (source)
    candidly = with honesty and directness
  • Personally, darling, to speak quite candidly, I don't much care about the name of Ernest.   (source)
  • After all, this was the expression of some sort of belief; it had candor, it had conviction,   (source)
    candor = honesty and directness
  • The candor of Mrs. Pontellier's admission greatly pleased Mademoiselle Reisz.   (source)
  • forgive my speaking candidly, but that man has robbed you!   (source)
    candidly = with honesty and directness
  • She stood there in so much of her candor and so little of her nightgown, with...   (source)
    candor = honesty and directness
  • my poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I am so candid.   (source)
    candid = honest and direct
  • This is a surprise to me which I wasn't looking for; and I'll acknowledge, candid and frank, I ain't very well fixed to meet it and answer it;   (source)
  • And this lack of candor in a matter of such gravity infuriated him.   (source)
    candor = honesty and directness
  • "Come, Toller, be candid," said Mr. Farebrother.   (source)
    candid = honest and straightforward
  • putting such a quantity of warm water into my milk that it would have been more candid to have left the milk out altogether,   (source)
    candid = honest
  • Her real beauty was in her eyes. Although brown, they seemed black because of the lashes, and her look came at you frankly, with a candid boldness.   (source)
    candid = honest and direct
  • WHY won't you be candid?   (source)
  • Excuse me for speaking so very candidly, but as this is intended only for ourselves, I do not see why I should weigh my words.   (source)
    candidly = honestly and directly
  • "Now, they say," said Haley, assuming a candid and confidential air, "that this kind o' trade is hardening to the feelings; but I never found it so."   (source)
    candid = honest and straightforward
  • I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is his theme.   (source)
    candor = honesty and directness
  • When the hour for business arriv'd it was mov'd to put the vote; he allow'd we might then do it by the rules, but, as he could assure us that a number of members intended to be present for the purpose of opposing it, it would be but candid to allow a little time for their appearing.   (source)
    candid = honest and straightforward
  • To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.   (source)
    candid = honest
  • The organizer asked if he'd be willing to try giving up the drugs for more than one night, and the man answered with admirable candor: "I could say yes, but honestly, probably not.†   (source)
  • Let's thank Mae for her candor, her brilliance and her consummate humanity, can we please?†   (source)
  • The candor of our earlier talks, which I longed for in spite of myself, had vanished.†   (source)
  • After all the secrecy that had come before, it was very strange indeed — in fact it was thrilling — to be spoken to with such candor and trust.†   (source)
  • DUMBLEDORE: Candidly, Harry, it seemed a great weight to place upon the poor boy.†   (source)
  • One of the women from the agency told me with typical slave-market candor that he and I were "the weirdest-looking couple" she had ever seen.†   (source)
  • Simmon turned back to me, and spoke with remarkable candor.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Lincoln, I appreciate your candor, and I will try to be as frank with you as you have been with me.†   (source)
  • He respected Burnham for his candor, his directness, and the air of leadership he exuded, and no doubt he told the architects as much.†   (source)
  • alone in the drawing room, an occasion that Trueba, with characteristic candor, took advantage of to present his economic position.†   (source)
  • The town, instead of doubting her innocence, pitied her candor.†   (source)
  • He had "the questing eyes," and the air of "reserved candor."†   (source)
  • Vanessa may be attempting to be brassy or sassy or trying to win me over with candor or show me how real she is, but whatever it is she's selling, I'm not buying.†   (source)
  • Mike Coan candidly discussed the whole subject during a 1994 interview with Business Insurance, an industry trade journal.†   (source)
  • In the candor with which they regarded him, they were like the eyes of a child; and yet there was also something in that scrutiny which was not childish at all.†   (source)
  • I am so cunning, crafty and clever, so filled with deceit, guile and chicanery, such a knave, so shrewd, cagey as well as calculating, as diabolical as I am vulpine, as tricky as I am untrustworthy ...well, I told you there were not words invented yet to explain how great my brain is, but let me put it this way: the world is several million years old and several billion people have at one time or another trod upon it, but I, Vizzini the Sicilian, am, speaking with pure candor and modesty, the slickest, sleekest, sliest and wiliest fellow who has yet come down the pike.†   (source)
  • You seem to be a man who appreciates candor, and we have much to discuss in a small amount of time.†   (source)
  • IN CONGRESS the defeat was spoken of privately as an "unfortunate beginning" at best, and more candidly as a "disaster."†   (source)
  • Her candor has us both looking away.†   (source)
  • Although interacting with Mrs. Jones required patience, I liked her, and her candor too.†   (source)
  • "Herschel says she's a lush who's been threatening to leave Ian for years," Stillman said, and Jake was impressed with his candor.†   (source)
  • Instead, he candidly admits that "we have a problem making our power credible and Vietnam looks like the place."†   (source)
  • His candor seemed to put the leader off.†   (source)
  • His testimony was given with simplicity and what seemed like candor, but Mtolo had gone out of his way to embellish his evidence.†   (source)
  • Now I realized she'd broken from the traditional stylized lines used by wives in their letters and was using her nu shu to write more candidly and forthrightly about her life.†   (source)
  • Candor, however, demands an acknowledgment that I do not think the governor has the right of nomination.†   (source)
  • I thought I should have also told her that I was now resolved to speak candidly with Captain Ono, that I was prepared to suggest to him my keeping a log of my duties around the camp and infirmary—which I had indeed begun compiling.†   (source)
  • "Don't need to ask him that," Mike replied with unabashed candor.†   (source)
  • I was flabbergasted both by her candor and her passion.†   (source)
  • But John Quincy Adams, whose puritanical candor on such occasions will be subsequently noted, replied that the ladies "introduced noise andconfusion into the Senate, and debates were protracted to arrest their attention."†   (source)
  • Now, M. Poirot, I'm going to be candid with you.   (source)
    candid = honest and direct
  • Do you know what my private and candid opinion is about some of those little jokers?   (source)
    candid = honest and straightforward
  • "Then what are you going to do about it?" she asked candidly.   (source)
    candidly = with honesty and directness
  • She held herself as erect, told everyone her opinion as candidly, loudly, and bluntly as ever,   (source)
  • They were splendid children ... "and I can't look at their innocent candid faces, I am unworthy."   (source)
    candid = honest and straightforward
  • "I am thoroughly perplexed," she said candidly.   (source)
    candidly = with honesty and directness
  • Gringoire, in the candid sanctuary of his own conscience, admired its clearness.   (source)
    candid = honest
  • She tried to give her countenance an appearance of perfect candor.   (source)
    candor = honesty and directness
  • You are candid, honest, open-hearted, fair-dealing men!   (source)
    candid = honest and straightforward
  • He was steady, observant, moderate, candid;   (source)
    candid = honest and direct
  • I candidly admitted to myself that she seemed to be an excellent kind of girl for Traddles, too.   (source)
    candidly = with honesty and directness
  • Sir Robert Chiltern is on the brink of accepting the Prime Minister's offer, when he sees [his] wife looking at him with her clear, candid eyes.   (source)
    candid = honest and direct
  • [Sighs] But, certainly, if you regard the matter from the aspect, then you, if I may say so, and you must excuse my candidness, have absolutely reduced me to a state of mind.   (source)
    candidness = directness
  • As regards this, however, a critical attitude would be inconsistent with a candid reference to the early annals of any biographer.   (source)
    candid = honest
  • tell me your candid opinion   (source)
    candid = honest and straightforward
  • Candidly to confess everything that has occurred to me ... I will confide to you my doubt whether he has had many advantages.   (source)
    candidly = with honesty and directness
  • He was surprised; but after a few moments' silent consideration of her, replied in a calmer, graver tone, and as if the candid result of conviction, "I believe you are right."   (source)
    candid = honest and straightforward
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candid as in:  a candid photograph

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  • These are candid pictures from last night's party.
  • And pictures: candid snapshots of me in a parking lot, me leaving my house, me at the mall.   (source)
  • "We should get them some candid photos too," I said.   (source)
  • Candid shots of the student body.   (source)
  • We'll be taking some candid shots later.   (source)
  • The picture they use isn't a mug shot, it's a candid shot: he's on holiday somewhere, not quite smiling, but almost.   (source)
  • Paul took them and stared from one to the other: a posed picture of a girl, smiling, and then a candid shot of her shooting a basket.   (source)
  • "Sure," she said, grinning, and turned to snap a candid shot of Mike with his mouth full.   (source)
  • At the end of every school year there was the annual slide show, full of candid shots that hadn't made the yearbook.   (source)
  • Next to it were two smaller, candid shots of Herschel and Ramona, also walking somewhere near the courthouse.   (source)
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  • "Smile, you're on Candid Camera," said Fang, pointing at a window.   (source)
    candid = describing pictures taken without warning
  • And, yes, two candid shots of someone mounted for a polo match.   (source)
    candid = unposed
  • Because they were so involved with each other, Bryan was able to take some candid shots before the paperwork on the rental was completed.   (source)
  • She knew it was the kind of candid photo that made magazine covers and won awards.   (source)
  • One of many candid camera shots taken during the play "Goodbye, My Fancy," presented by the Vail-Deane School Dramatic Club, assisted by the Pingry Players.   (source)
  • One of them was called Down Your Way, and was all full of candid photos of readers and their wives in the privacy of their own bedrooms.   (source)
  • Besides this, M. Leblanc's whole person was expressive of candid and intrepid confidence.   (source)
    candid = unposed (genuine)
  • Edgar scrutinized the posed group shots and candids—the football team, the farm club, the choral group, the crowd in the cafeteria.†   (source)
  • the crowned and comely maiden, candids of picnicking families ("The Maltons of Protection Point enjoy Saturday's strawberry festival"), and a beneficent editorial or boilerplate column approving the efforts of local organizers ("...Ed Bailey, Lois Dunkirk, and Carl Heine, Sr., without whom none of this would have been possible ...").†   (source)
  • There were candids.†   (source)
  • SNAPSHOTS With the camera my parents gave me, I took dozens of candids of my family.†   (source)
  • The day after Tyler took the candid shots of our student bodies began like any other.   (source)
    candid = unposed
  • Just then a photographer came up to get a candid photo of us talking.   (source)
  • Taking candid photos with a townie during a search for me.   (source)
  • IT'S WORK! screamed the headline above a candid shot of me yawning.   (source)
  • Several candid shots, like a kiss or a smile, had been blown up and changed to black-and-white, making them seem more classic than casual.   (source)
  • Candid shots of the student body.   (source)
  • These were taken from church and club directories, high school yearbooks, and a few candid shots handed over on the sly by friends.   (source)
  • He'd taken some candid photos during the dinner party: Norah, carrying a tray of glasses, Paul standing by the grill with his cup lifted, various shots of them all relaxing on the porch.   (source)
  • The yearbook candids were of nothing but us.†   (source)
  • Ken Childs, a boy I liked, had shot almost a whole roll of film, snapping candids of me in various poses throughout his apartment.†   (source)
  • Up at the front of the church there were two posters with pictures of Michael taped to them: baby snapshots, school pictures, candids I recognized from the yearbook.†   (source)
  • Or this is what is said of him in The Chase Industries: A History, a book my grandfather commissioned in 1903 and had privately printed, in green leather covers, with not only the title but his own candid, heavy signature embossed on the front in gold.   (source)
    candid = natural (not made in a special way for appearance's sake)
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  • Paul folded a napkin into the shape of a bird, surprised by Margarethe's candid question.†   (source)
  • I was intrigued that he would immediately give voice to the concerns of other people in law enforcement and was initially encouraged that he meant for us to have a candid conversation free of distractions and posturing.†   (source)
  • She was candid with these lobbyists, avoiding anything like preaching or pandering.†   (source)
  • "Of course not!" said Mr. Merrill, who added that he didn't think Owen should be as candid with Dr. Dolder—should the doctor inquire if Owen knew anything about the "accident."†   (source)
  • I laugh at her candidness and text her back.†   (source)
  • Those candid eyes, shadowed with makeup, yes, but like the eyes of cats, fixed for the pounce.†   (source)
  • Sometimes in bed—adrift in my sighing, opiated, erotic reveries— I carried on long candid conversations with her: we are inseparable, I imagined us saying (cornily) to each other, each with a hand on the other's cheek, we can never be apart.†   (source)
  • They grew to believe in my candid revelations of how wonderful it was to rejoin the community of mankind...to join the Web.†   (source)
  • Before coming out here, I took the initiative to look up "candid" in the dictionary.†   (source)
  • The song was obviously of his own devising, a rather candid revelation about the personal habits of a local nobleman.†   (source)
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  • We're not going to hurt you, the one called Candid° said.†   (source)
  • I took advantage of my mother's momentary distraction to keep the subject from returning to my less-than-candid behavior.†   (source)
  • You mean like Candid Camera?†   (source)
  • While aboard the train, Burnham wrote a letter to Olmsted that contained a less-than-candid description of the meeting with the architects.†   (source)
  • To be perfectly candid, yes.†   (source)
  • This made his dealings with people difficult, but it did not isolate him, because within five minutes of meeting him it was clear that, despite his peevish attitude, he was generous and candid and had a tremendous capacity for kindness, which he tried in vain to cover up because it embarrassed him.†   (source)
  • For several years an Amazonian monkey, chained by his waist to the mango tree in the patio, elicited a certain compassion because he had the sorrowful face of Archbishop Obdulio y Rey, the same candid eyes, the same eloquent hands; that, however, was not the reason Fermina got rid of him, but because he had the bad habit of pleasuring himself in honor of the ladies.†   (source)
  • And he was also quite candid.†   (source)
  • He was so candid, so real.†   (source)
  • But I'd be less than candid with you if I said it will appear.†   (source)
  • Even though Annie had lived in this country for many years, such candid religious talk still jolted some deep-seated English reserve in her and made her feel uneasy.†   (source)
  • Eric's dark blue eyes were very clear and candid, but there was a terrible fear in their depth, too, waiting.†   (source)
  • Feeling like she might as well confide in him, she's candid about her problems at UDC and how she'll just take two classes next semester and start working.†   (source)
  • Writing to Lund Washington on September 30, Washington was even more candid about his miseries.†   (source)
  • His reputation for candid thinking on race was already well established.†   (source)
  • He decided that he himself, at any rate, would be perfectly candid and plain.†   (source)
  • I don't expect any other members will be turning out on a night such as this, and to be candid, after our adventure with inspector Clowes, I rather appreciate the privacy.†   (source)
  • I've thought of a dozen different ways to proceed, and I've decided to be completely candid.†   (source)
  • I was candid about how both the PAC and the ANC were perceived in the rest of Africa.†   (source)
  • She was comfortable with herself, easily amused and candid.†   (source)
  • She was miserable and I didn't know what to say, though just a few days ago I'd promised myself that we would be more candid with each other.†   (source)
  • This important subject demands calm and candid consideration.†   (source)
  • But such candid discussions of slavery were the exception rather than the rule.†   (source)
  • But she no longer had a moment to give him and took no notice of his mutterings except for turning to him now and then with a tranquil, puzzled look or bursting into her inimitable, candid, silvery laughter.†   (source)
  • The Commander looked at me with his candid boy's eyes.†   (source)
  • But allowing them to capture staged moments means that I get to keep the candid moments private.†   (source)
  • Correspondence between Grosvenor Square and Paris remained steady and candid.†   (source)
  • I was candid and explained why I believed we had no choice but to turn to violence.†   (source)
  • But cool and candid people know that even the purest of human blessings are part alloy.†   (source)
  • I determine, however, to write from a conviction that truth between candid minds can never do harm.†   (source)
  • Knowing how much Rush admired Jefferson, Adams was nonetheless equally candid on the subject.†   (source)
  • It was a remarkable letter—lucid, knowledgeable, and candid, if flagrantly self-congratulatory.†   (source)
  • As always, both Adamses were entirely candid with their children.†   (source)
  • Candid and pure as innocence, it pierced and carried through the wood from end to end.†   (source)
  • For a moment the bandanna slipped down and Jimmy saw her clearly — her frowning eyebrows, her candid blue eyes, her determined mouth.†   (source)
  • Their morals have been irreproachable, their manners candid as spring water; their minds have been presented to him as unbaked pieces of dough which it would be his prerogative to mould and form.†   (source)
  • But today, listening to her low, candid voice — like the voice of a childhood nurse reciting a well-loved story — he almost goes to sleep; only the sound of his own pencil hitting the floor pulls him awake.†   (source)
  • While it is charming to imagine the scene, the fact is the cameras that existed during Mudgett's boyhood made candid moments almost impossible to capture, especially when the subject was a child.†   (source)
  • His manner is kindly, fatherly; he gazes out at us from the screen, looking, with his tan and his white hair and candid eyes, wise wrinkles around them, like everybody's ideal grandfather.†   (source)
  • Later, no doubt, he wished he had been more candid and had listened more closely to the whisper in his head about the wrongness of that building and the discontinuity between its true appearance and Emeline's perception of it.†   (source)
  • In all the years he had known her, he had come to realize that she never lied to him directly, but neither was she totally candid.†   (source)
  • Surely behind those glassy, candid doors there are no more long wooden pointers, no black rubber strap, no hard wooden desks in rows; no King and Queen in their stiff regalia, no inkwells; no sniggering about underpants; no bitter, whiskery old women.†   (source)
  • He was funny, candid, self-effacing.†   (source)
  • He had understood the delicate balance sought by national security after his many candid talks with Superintendent Nyström.†   (source)
  • He learned to talk about Cedric Gilliam without getting upset, and, with Cedric Sr. safely in jail, Barbara felt freer to be candid about all that had gone sour in his father's life.†   (source)
  • The elegant prima ballerina had found herself confronted with candid eyes the color of pewter, an elegant face with slanting cheekbones and a full mouth.†   (source)
  • Hazel, who was ready to accept advice from anybody when he thought it was good, listened to most of what he said and was content to leave it to Bigwig—for whom, naturally, Blackavar entertained a tremendous respect—to see that he did not overreach himself in his warm-hearted, rather candid zeal.†   (source)
  • Writing to John Hancock earlier, Washington had offered a candid appraisal of Sullivan as "spirited and zealously attached to the Cause," but also a man touched with a "tincture of vanity" and too great a "desire of being popular."†   (source)
  • As I was founder of MK and its first commander-in-chief, Jimmy and the others were more candid with me than they were with the others.†   (source)
  • He needs to buy books for the courses he's signed up for-Spanish, Calculus, and Richard Wright-and look for a fourth course in catalogs they have at the store's resource desk that include candid course critiques from student surveys.†   (source)
  • Let candid men judge whether dividing America into several independent sovereignties would secure us against the hostilities and improper interference of foreign nations.†   (source)
  • I talked to the reporter, whose name was Mr. Newman, for about twenty minutes, and was candid about both prison and the Rivonia Trial.†   (source)
  • Rush proved an eager and engaging correspondent, his letters brimming with opinion and vitality, and quite as candid as Adams's own.†   (source)
  • In contrast to his loving, tender Hannah, these Smith sisters were, he wrote, neither "fond, nor frank, nor candid."†   (source)
  • Your motives for writing to me, I have not a doubt, were the most pure and the most friendly; and I have no suspicion that you will not receive this explanation from me in the same candid light.†   (source)
  • Marshall judged Adams a "sensible, plain, candid, good tempered man," while Adams wrote of Marshall, "he is a plain man, very sensible, cautious, and learned in the law of nations."†   (source)
  • "I fixed it up," he said, and laughed the most candid and disarming laugh in the world.†   (source)
  • The wheelbarrow, the lawnmower, the sound of poplar trees, leaves whitening before rain, rooks cawing, brooms knocking, dresses rustling—all these were so coloured and distinguished in his mind that he had already his private code, his secret language, though he appeared the image of stark and uncompromising severity, with his high forehead and his fierce blue eyes, impeccably candid and pure, frowning slightly at the sight of human frailty, so that his mother, watching him guide his scissors neatly round the refrigerator, imagined him all red and ermine on the Bench or directing a stern and momentous enterprise in some crisis of public affairs.†   (source)
  • She smiled pleasantly, and for a moment turned her candid stare upon smooth marble slabs of death, carved lambs and cherubim.†   (source)
  • Keating thought with relief that there was nothing frightening about her; there was only a disquieting contrast between her words and the candid innocence of the manner she used to utter them; he did not know which to trust.†   (source)
  • At length he replied: "To be quite candid, I haven't the slightest idea, except that I must have wanted to tell you.†   (source)
  • They were dreamy, candid eyes.†   (source)
  • From beneath a sunbonnet of faded blue, weathered now by other than formal soap and water, she looks up at him quietly and pleasantly: young, pleasantfaced, candid, friendly, and alert.†   (source)
  • Conway was silent for an interval and then replied: "I was deeply impressed by your story of the past, but to be candid, your sketch of the future interests me only in an abstract sense.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were soft, candid, cat-green.†   (source)
  • He simply turned on me the candid, blue gaze, slightly shaded by thought now, and said, "It just isn't something I ever thought about.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, since the recent European War and the Russian Revolution, travel and exploration in Tibet have been almost completely held up; in fact, our last visitor, a Japanese, arrived in 1912, and was not, to be candid, a very valuable acquisition.†   (source)
  • She was firm, strong, washed, and elegant—a faint scent of lilac hovered over her: he looked at her candid eyes, lucently gray, and saw that she was quite a great lady.†   (source)
  • And do not suppose that I am so candid out of pure simplicity of soul.†   (source)
  • It was Flora who, gazing all over me in candid wonder, was the first.†   (source)
  • I think that whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.†   (source)
  • "To tell you my private and candid opinion," he said, "I think he's a man from the other camp.†   (source)
  • You see, I am perfectly candid with you.†   (source)
  • "No, Ferdishenko would not; he is a candid fellow, Nastasia Philipovna," said that worthy.†   (source)
  • you are candid, however—and that is commendable.†   (source)
  • But what astonishes me more than anything is the fellow's candid confession of weakness.†   (source)
  • And he set off for the elections without appealing to her for a candid explanation.†   (source)
  • "That's ingenious rather than candid," said Ralph.†   (source)
  • Madame Merle was as candid as we know, and one day she candidly expressed this dread to Isabel.†   (source)
  • To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.†   (source)
  • The candid Arthur had brought himself into a position in which successful lying was his only hope.†   (source)
  • "Well, you can't help my being her cousin," said Lord Deepmere to Newman, with candid hilarity.†   (source)
  • There you're not candid again; you're extremely interesting to yourself.†   (source)
  • Even at this obvious moment for candour Sue could not be quite candid as to the state of that mystery, her heart.†   (source)
  • Lena's candid eyes, that always looked a little sleepy under their long lashes, kept straying about the cheerful rooms with naive admiration.†   (source)
  • He did not know what to say in the presence of this candid and perfect faith in a genius who came down nightly from Heaven to haunt the dressing-rooms at the Opera.†   (source)
  • The poplar foliage had the downiness of a Corot arbor; the green and silver trunks were as candid as the birches, as slender and lustrous as the limbs of a Pierrot.†   (source)
  • Joachim was likewise in a lively mood, and after the humming, drumming lady suddenly stood up and departed, their conversation turned even more candid and high-spirited.†   (source)
  • Before the idea of going home he would grow desperately stiff and immovable, with lowered chin and pouted lips, and with those candid blue eyes of his glowering darkly under a frown, as if before something unbearable, as if before something revolting.†   (source)
  • Being more finely formed, better educated, and, though the youngest except Retty, more woman than either, she perceived that only the slightest ordinary care was necessary for holding her own in Angel Clare's heart against these her candid friends.†   (source)
  • "Oh, I don't mean that; he wouldn't believe it of you—at first," said Mrs. Trenor, with candid shrewdness.†   (source)
  • "Now we shan't have to talk," he said, smiling into her candid eyes, as they floated away on the soft waves of the Blue Danube.†   (source)
  • He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company—for he did all the talking.†   (source)
  • The South ought to be led, by candid and honest criticism, to assert her better self and do her full duty to the race she has cruelly wronged and is still wronging.†   (source)
  • "He's an awful brute, isn't he?" continued the young enquirer, a candid Thorley, who was evidently preparing to enter the lists as the lady's champion.†   (source)
  • She had refrained from touching it because it was a last resource, and she had relied on other arts to stimulate other sensations; but as a settled look of dulness began to creep over his candid features, she saw that extreme measures were necessary.†   (source)
  • There was something new, on the spot, between us, and he was perfectly aware that I recognized it, though, to enable me to do so, he had no need to look a whit less candid and charming than usual.†   (source)
  • She at last concluded that, so far as circumstances permitted, she would be honest and candid with one who entered into her difficulties like an aged friend.†   (source)
  • You have taken a shameful advantage of the candid affection of your benefactress herself, who continues to believe in your sincerity while you go about the Opera ball with Red Death!†   (source)
  • Jude fell back upon his old complaint—that, intimate as they were, he had never once had from her an honest, candid declaration that she loved or could love him.†   (source)
  • Miss Welland, evidently about to join the dancers, hung on the threshold, her lilies-of-the-valley in her hand (she carried no other bouquet), her face a little pale, her eyes burning with a candid excitement.†   (source)
  • As a matter of fact, petted as he was by his two sisters and his old aunt, he had retained from this purely feminine education manners that were almost candid and stamped with a charm that nothing had yet been able to sully.†   (source)
  • But although the smouldering maternal instinct was strong enough in her to lead her to quash her husband's conjecture, she was not disposed on second thoughts to be more candid than necessary.†   (source)
  • More candid, more exact, more honest, more honourable, and...although I may show you my weak side, I challenge you all; you atheists, for instance!†   (source)
  • When Totski had approached the general with his request for friendly counsel as to a marriage with one of his daughters, he had made a full and candid confession.†   (source)
  • But of late they have grown, more candid and are ashamed of the expression 'love of country,' and have annihilated the very spirit of the words as something injurious and petty and undignified.†   (source)
  • Madame Epanchin at first looked on him with disdain, and received him coldly, but in a short time he grew to please her, because, as she said, he "was candid and no flatterer"—a very true description.†   (source)
  • Elizabetha Prokofievna sometimes informed the girls that they were a little too candid in this matter, but in spite of their outward deference to their mother these three young women, in solemn conclave, had long agreed to modify the unquestioning obedience which they had been in the habit of according to her; and Mrs. General Epanchin had judged it better to say nothing about it, though, of course, she was well aware of the fact.†   (source)
  • When Katya spoke, she had a very charming smile, sweet, timid, and candid, and looked up from under her eyebrows with a sort of humorous severity.†   (source)
  • here, far water-locked; beyond all hum of human weal or woe; in these most candid and impartial seas; where to traditions no rocks furnish tablets; where for long Chinese ages, the billows have still rolled on speechless and unspoken to, as stars that shine upon the Niger's unknown source; here, too, life dies sunwards full of faith; but see!†   (source)
  • And, to be quite candid with you, it is a matter of great importance to us to have some admission of that sort from you in writing.†   (source)
  • There's my too candid confession.†   (source)
  • You see I am more candid than you.†   (source)
  • 'To be candid with you, tolerably.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Tulliver hid these reasonings in her own bosom; for when she had thrown out a hint to Mr. Deane and Mr. Glegg that she wouldn't mind going to speak to Wakem herself, they had said, "No, no, no," and "Pooh, pooh," and "Let Wakem alone," in the tone of men who were not likely to give a candid attention to a more definite exposition of her project; still less dared she mention the plan to Tom and Maggie, for "the children were always so against everything their mother said"; and Tom, she observed, was almost as much set against Wakem as his father was.†   (source)
  • Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action?†   (source)
  • Newman's comrade, whose name was Babcock, was a young Unitarian minister, a small, spare, neatly-attired man, with a strikingly candid physiognomy.†   (source)
  • But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone.†   (source)
  • If I were in your place I should simply throw it all up ...rather than stay on in such a position," answered Smerdyakov, with the most candid air looking at Ivan's flashing eyes.†   (source)
  • He was an exceptionally good-humoured and candid youth, good-natured to the point of simplicity, though both depth and dignity lay concealed under that simplicity.†   (source)
  • Her pure, red lips half smiled; her serene and candid brow became troubled, at intervals, under her thoughts, like a mirror under the breath; and from beneath her long, drooping, black eyelashes, there escaped a sort of ineffable light, which gave to her profile that ideal serenity which Raphael found at the mystic point of intersection of virginity, maternity, and divinity.†   (source)
  • "My dear Miss Summerson," he returned with a candid hilarity that was all his own, "I can't be bribed."†   (source)
  • Not too much, to be candid with Master.†   (source)
  • From that moment forth, Mother Plutarque saw a sombre veil, which was never more lifted, descend over the old man's candid face.†   (source)
  • To this hour I am lost in admiration when I recall the truly gentlemanly, good-humoured, candid tone of my letter.†   (source)
  • "I am afraid it was, indeed," said the more candid Lady Bertram, who had overheard her; "I am very much afraid she caught the headache there, for the heat was enough to kill anybody.†   (source)
  • Sergeant Dunham, we are old fellow-campaigners—that is, as campaigns are carried on here in the wilderness; and we have done so many kind acts to each other that we can afford to be candid—what has caused you to believe that a girl like Mabel could ever fancy one so rude as I am?†   (source)
  • "My girls' singing, after that little odious governess's, I know is unbearable," the candid Rector's wife owned to herself.†   (source)
  • If you mean to say anything to me to-night, that goes against this candid remark, you had better let it alone.'†   (source)
  • Now she was a modestly and poorly-dressed young girl, very young, indeed, almost like a child, with a modest and refined manner, with a candid but somewhat frightened-looking face.†   (source)
  • So open-looking and candid, too; but candid people have their secrets, and secrets leave no lines in young faces.†   (source)
  • Such was the physiognomy of the salons of those distant and candid times when M. Martainville had more wit than Voltaire.†   (source)
  • But his endurance was mingled with a self-discontent which, if we know how to be candid, we shall confess to make more than half our bitterness under grievances, wife or husband included.†   (source)
  • For Jos's former shyness and blundering blushing timidity had given way to a more candid and courageous self-assertion of his worth.†   (source)
  • I give you his very words; and if the marquis chooses to be candid, he will confess that they perfectly agree with what his majesty said to him, when he went six months ago to consult him upon the subject of your espousing his daughter.†   (source)
  • In that case, of course, people are not spiteful in silence, but moan; but they are not candid moans, they are malignant moans, and the malignancy is the whole point.†   (source)
  • It would happen that an hour after the offense he would address the offender or answer some question with as trustful and candid an expression as though nothing had happened between them.†   (source)
  • "Our young friend is not to be suspected of any delicacy, I should imagine," said Mr. Skimpole, unabashed and candid.†   (source)
  • In the present instance it was equally unfortunate, as respects a candid consideration of the subject, that Cap, instead of the Sergeant himself, made the statement of the case; for the earnest old sailor was not backward in letting his listener perceive to which side he was desirous that the Quartermaster should lean.†   (source)
  • She blushed when Vronsky brought in Golenishtchev, and he was extremely charmed by this childish blush overspreading her candid and handsome face.†   (source)
  • To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.†   (source)
  • He was a small, meagre man, of some three and thirty years of age, with a bald head, a short nose and no front teeth in the upper jaw; he had round, candid blue eyes, and several pimples on his chin.†   (source)
  • I write down these opinions not because I believe that this or any other thing was so because I thought so, but only because I did think so and I want to be quite candid about all I thought and did.†   (source)
  • I—listen to an old man—am speaking seriously, Rodion Romanovitch" (as he said this Porfiry Petrovitch, who was scarcely five-and-thirty, actually seemed to have grown old; even his voice changed and he seemed to shrink together) "Moreover, I'm a candid man...am I a candid man or not?†   (source)
  • The eyes had no peculiar beauty, beyond that of expression; they looked so simple, so candid, so gravely loving, that no accusing scowl, no light sneer could help melting away before their glance.†   (source)
  • Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little by little, without, however, being made melancholy by it.†   (source)
  • Old Miss Crawley laughed when Briggs, with great mystery, handed her over this candid and simple statement.†   (source)
  • A question which provoked much candid hilarity on the part of the two ladies; on the subsidence of which their entertainer, glancing at his daughter, remarked that she had grown.†   (source)
  • This was so simply said, and so sweet was the truthful and candid expression of her face, that the princess saw why Kitty had taken such a fancy to Varenka.†   (source)
  • Her face was the oddest mixture of youth and maturity, and beneath her candid brow her searching little smile seemed to contain a world of ambiguous intentions.†   (source)
  • On Pulcheria Alexandrovna's anxiously and timidly inquiring as to "some suspicion of insanity," he replied with a composed and candid smile that his words had been exaggerated; that certainly the patient had some fixed idea, something approaching a monomania—he, Zossimov, was now particularly studying this interesting branch of medicine—but that it must be recollected that until to-day the patient had been in delirium and...and that no doubt the presence of his family would have a favourable effect on his recovery and distract his mind, "if only all fresh shocks can be avoided," he added significantly.†   (source)
  • "How should I be able now to persevere in any path without your companionship?" said Mr. Casaubon, kissing her candid brow, and feeling that heaven had vouchsafed him a blessing in every way suited to his peculiar wants.†   (source)
  • It wore, to his eyes, a tortuous air, and his fault was that he was not quite sure that anything in the world could really be as candid as this request of Miss Stackpole's appeared.†   (source)
  • They related to each other, with candid faith in their illusions, all that love, youth, and the remains of childhood which still lingered about them, suggested to their minds.†   (source)
  • He fell asleep after dinner in his chair; he did not see the face opposite to him, haggard, weary, and terrible; it lighted up with fresh candid smiles when he woke.†   (source)
  • But it appeared to me—I dare say magnifying the importance of the thing—that it was respectful to explain to you how the matter stood and candid to consult your wishes and convenience.†   (source)
  • That chaste, healthy, firm, upright, hard, candid nature charmed him, without his being clearly aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having occurred to him.†   (source)
  • Yet if she had entered before a still audience as Imogene or Cato's daughter, the dress might have seemed right enough: the grace and dignity were in her limbs and neck; and about her simply parted hair and candid eyes the large round poke which was then in the fate of women, seemed no more odd as a head-dress than the gold trencher we call a halo.†   (source)
  • Besides being such a fine religionist, Miss Crawley was, as we have said, an Ultra-liberal in opinions, and always took occasion to express these in the most candid manner.†   (source)
  • It seemed to me that his off-hand professions of childishness and carelessness were a great relief to my guardian, by contrast with such things, and were the more readily believed in since to find one perfectly undesigning and candid man among many opposites could not fail to give him pleasure.†   (source)
  • The marks of the Vicar of Lockleigh were a big, athletic figure, a candid, natural countenance, a capacious appetite and a tendency to indiscriminate laughter.†   (source)
  • The Bishop of D—, in spite of the gentle and candid air which never deserted him, sometimes did things that were grand, bold, and magnificent, without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact.†   (source)
  • There was nothing flighty about Mrs. Touchett, but she recognised no social superiors, and, judging the great ones of the earth in a way that spoke of this, enjoyed the consciousness of making an impression on a candid and susceptible mind.†   (source)
  • And Rebecca told Miss Briggs, whose Christmas dividend upon the little sum lent by her Becky paid with an air of candid joy, and as if her exchequer was brimming over with gold—Rebecca, we say, told Miss Briggs, in strict confidence that she had conferred with Sir Pitt, who was famous as a financier, on Briggs's special behalf, as to the most profitable investment of Miss B.'s remaining capital; that Sir Pitt, after much consideration, had thought of a most saf†   (source)
  • Candid reasons of childhood, which do not, however, succeed in making us worldlings comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of a reading-desk.†   (source)
  • Javert gazed at M. Madeleine with his candid eyes, in whose depths his not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and said in a tranquil voice:— "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that."†   (source)
  • Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although peculiar light, what passed before his eyes, even the most indifferent deeds and men; he pronounced a just criticism on everything with a sort of honest dejection and candid disinterestedness.†   (source)
  • It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action.†   (source)
  • However, without any apparent object, he questioned Cosette, who was as candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her childhood and her youth, and he became more and more convinced that that convict had been everything good, paternal and respectable that a man can be towards Cosette.†   (source)
  • Like half the rest of the world, if more than half there be that are clever and good, Marianne, with excellent abilities and an excellent disposition, was neither reasonable nor candid.†   (source)
  • To facilitate to them the performance of their duty, it is essential that you should practically bear in mind that towards the payment of debts there must be revenue; that to have revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment, inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties), ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies may at any time dictate.†   (source)
  • For, if you would inform, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention.†   (source)
  • There is great truth, however, in what you have now urged of the allowances which ought to be made for him, and it is my wish to be candid in my judgment of every body.†   (source)
  • Osborne was sensible, candid, frank; sincere and affectionate to his friends; but, in literary matters, too fond of criticising.†   (source)
  • Disappointed, however, and vexed as she was, and sometimes displeased with his uncertain behaviour to herself, she was very well disposed on the whole to regard his actions with all the candid allowances and generous qualifications, which had been rather more painfully extorted from her, for Willoughby's service, by her mother.†   (source)
  • My belief is, to tell you the candid truth, that those bits were genuine forgeries all of them put in by monks most probably or it's the big question of our national poet over again, who precisely wrote them like Hamlet and Bacon, as, you who know your Shakespeare infinitely better than I, of course I needn't tell you.†   (source)
  • trickle, slow drops,
    Candid from me falling, drip, bleeding drops,
    From wounds made to free you whence you were prison'd,
    From my face, from my forehead and lips,
    From my breast, from within where I was conceal'd, press forth red
    drops, confession drops,
    Stain every page, stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops,
    Let them know your scarlet heat, let them glisten,
    Saturate them with yourself all ashamed and wet,
    Glow upon all I have written or shall write, bleeding drops,
    Let it all be seen in your light, blushing drops.†   (source)
  • I shall be equally candid in stating the reasoning which may be offered on the opposite side.†   (source)
  • Every candid reader will make the proper reflections on these important facts.†   (source)
  • As in the month of June, the damask rose, which chance hath planted among the lilies, with their candid hue mixes his vermilion; or as some playsome heifer in the pleasant month of May diffuses her odoriferous breath over the flowery meadows; or as, in the blooming month of April, the gentle, constant dove, perched on some fair bough, sits meditating on her mate; so, looking a hundred charms and breathing as many sweets, her thoughts being fixed o†   (source)
  • But this was the only time I was ever guilty of so uncleanly an action; for which I cannot but hope the candid reader will give some allowance, after he has maturely and impartially considered my case, and the distress I was in.†   (source)
  • I find likewise that your printer has been so careless as to confound the times, and mistake the dates, of my several voyages and returns; neither assigning the true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month: and I hear the original manuscript is all destroyed since the publication of my book; neither have I any copy left: however, I have sent you some corrections, which you may insert, if ever there should be a second edition: and yet I cannot stand to them; but shall leave that matter to my judicious and candid readers to adjust it as they please.†   (source)
  • And give me leave to say, when we suffer any temptation to atone for dishonesty itself, we are as candid and merciful as we ought to be; and so far I confess I have gone; for I have often pitied the fate of a highwayman, when I have been on the grand jury; and have more than once applied to the judge on the behalf of such as have had any mitigating circumstances in their case; but when dishonesty is attended with any blacker crime, such as cruelty, murder, ingratitude, or the like, compassion and forgiveness then become faults.†   (source)
  • These reasons seem sufficient to satisfy a candid mind, that the want of such a power would have been a great defect in the plan.†   (source)
  • To the People of the State of New York: THE last paper having concluded the observations which were meant to introduce a candid survey of the plan of government reported by the convention, we now proceed to the execution of that part of our undertaking.†   (source)
  • Let candid men judge, then, whether the division of America into any given number of independent sovereignties would tend to secure us against the hostilities and improper interference of foreign nations.†   (source)
  • Every view we may take of the subject, as candid inquirers after truth, will serve to convince us, that it is both unwise and dangerous to deny the federal government an unconfined authority, as to all those objects which are intrusted to its management.†   (source)
  • I cannot but persuade myself, on the other hand, that the different lights in which the subject has been placed in the course of these observations, will go far towards removing in candid minds the apprehensions they may have entertained on the point.†   (source)
  • I hesitate not to submit it to the decision of any candid and honest adversary of the proposed government, whether language can furnish epithets of too much asperity, for so shameless and so prostitute an attempt to impose on the citizens of America.†   (source)
  • If he happened to be a man of quick sensibility, or ardent temper, he could now no longer refrain from regarding these clamors as the dishonest artifices of a sinister and unprincipled opposition to a plan which ought at least to receive a fair and candid examination from all sincere lovers of their country!†   (source)
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