But we face serious problems that demand very frank discussion and assessment.
We should celebrate and publicize all the wonderful achievements of science, but also be frank about the challenges we still face.
Thanks to close monitoring, thorough investigations, and frank reporting from countries, we have some early snapshots depicting spread of the virus and the range of illness it can cause.
He is an extremely frank person.
Today, talk about swift recovery of the global economy sounds more like wishful thinking than a frank look at reality.
Though he was never a monk, there was a monkish look about him: the balding head, the frank, kindly eyes, the life spent in rigorous discipline among ancient texts.
He is honest and frank, and always says everything he knows without reserve.
Vicki Iovine's honest, frank prose in the Girlfriend's Guide series is refreshing, reassuring and seems to have inspired a whole new crop of writers.
Mr Bing, unlike so many of his predecessors, is wonderfully frank.
His frank and forthright action deserves praise.
This showed that when doctors had frank conversations about the end of life with terminally ill cancer patients, the patients typically chose not to request very intensive medical interventions.
Bogart explained, in a frank confessional article, why he never liked his mother.
If every exploration contact immediately becomes public before even the reaction of the other side canbe ascertained, the frank communications so necessary to clarify positions cannot take place.
As I said, we want a frank, critical, transparent, credible and independent review of our performance, as well as that of the International Health Regulations.
