plain speaking

Known for his plain speaking style, Gates, a native Kansan, gives old-fashioned speeches about service and duty and exudes a sense of calm.

This one features a hotshot New York journalist and a plain-speaking Southern librarian, both of whom have been hurt by love before.

At the start, the president spared no criticism of Ms Lagarde, whose plain-speaking style often landed her in political hot water.

If things go badly in North Rhine-Westphalia, they may tell him to focus on diplomacy and leave the plain speaking to others.

Some might regard the suspension of the usual hypocritical niceties as an admirable embrace of plain speaking.

If you don't mind my plain speaking, I want to tell you that we do not consider your work entirely satisfactory.

He is widely respected, if not universally loved, combining brains with a plain-speaking style and, say his fans, an openness to reform.

The episode illustrates past barriers to plain speaking about economic and monetary union (Emu).

Too often, his party colleagues were left to do the political fire-fighting after another round of old fashioned plain-speaking from MM.

In Libya, the more plain speaking Americans having left the stage, we are entering a period of humanitarian absurdity.

Until this week the blunt and plain-speaking Mr Glasenberg, who joined in 1984, has done little to change this perception.