All 19 Uses of
candid
in
The Portrait of a Lady
- These words were uttered with a breadth of candour that was like the embrace of strong arms—that was like the fragrance straight in her face, and by his clean, breathing lips, of she knew not what strange gardens, what charged airs.†
Chpt 12candour = honesty and directnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use candor.
- "I don't know whether you'd try to, but you certainly would: that I must in candour admit!" he exclaimed with an anxious laugh.†
Chpt 14 *
- There was something passionately positive in the tone in which she gave him this advice, and he saw a shining candour in her eyes that helped him to believe her.†
Chpt 16
- Sometimes she took alarm at her candour: it was as if she had given to a comparative stranger the key to her cabinet of jewels.†
Chpt 19
- Isabel candidly believed that his lordship would, in the usual phrase, get over his disappointment.†
Chpt 21candidly = with honesty and directness
- "If you like I won't listen," Pansy suggested with an appearance of candour which imposed conviction.†
Chpt 22candour = honesty and directnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use candor.
- This gentleman took the joke in perfectly good part and candidly confessed that he regarded the affair as a positive intellectual adventure.†
Chpt 26candidly = with honesty and directness
- Isabel and her companions, however, were guilty of none; for though Henrietta was obliged in candour to declare that Michael Angelo's dome suffered by comparison with that of the Capitol at Washington, she addressed her protest chiefly to Mr. Bantling's ear and reserved it in its more accentuated form for the columns of the Interviewer.†
Chpt 27candour = honesty and directnessunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use candor.
- Was the extremity of her candour but the perfection of self-consciousness?†
Chpt 30
- She considered, with the presumption of youth, that a morality differing from her own must be inferior to it; and this conviction was an aid to detecting an occasional flash of cruelty, an occasional lapse from candour, in the conversation of a person who had raised delicate kindness to an art and whose pride was too high for the narrow ways of deception.†
Chpt 31
- I wish I could!" he candidly declared.†
Chpt 32candidly = with honesty and directness
- Madame Merle was as candid as we know, and one day she candidly expressed this dread to Isabel.†
Chpt 40
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 9
- 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.†
Chpt 13
- "That's ingenious rather than candid," said Ralph.†
Chpt 15
- There you're not candid again; you're extremely interesting to yourself.†
Chpt 15
- 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.†
Chpt 22
- Madame Merle was as candid as we know, and one day she candidly expressed this dread to Isabel.†
Chpt 40
Definitions:
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(1)
(candid as in: your candid opinion) honest and direct
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(2)
(candid as in: a candid photograph) unposed -- typically said of a photograph