46 adjectives to describe candors

Unexpected as such complaints and such a demand were under existing circumstances, it was thought proper, without compromising the Government as to the course to be pursued, to meet them promptly and to give the explanations that were desired on every subject with the utmost candor.

Bayard Taylor, when United States minister at Berlin, was amazed and confounded by his freedom of speech and apparent candor.

He lacked finesse, and now he spoke boldly and to the point, the honest candor of his gray eyes shining full on the girl.

"You can go, sir, if you don't like my societyI am not anxious to detain you!" said Miss Fanny, with refreshing candor.

His intelligence, evident candor, and grateful remembrance of those kindnesses, which in a land of Slavery, made his cup of suffering less bitter; the perfect accordance of his statements, (made at different times, and to different individuals),[B] one with another, as well as those statements themselves, all afford strong confirmation of the truth and accuracy of his story.

The patience with which he listened to others, and the modest candor with which he expressed himself, usually disarmed the contentions; when they did not, he went no farther.

"It argued the sincerest candor to make such an acknowledgement.

But any one who establishes himself in the woods loses touch with the light manners of civilization; his very vices take on an air of brutal candor.

" Then he sat down near Draxy and asked many questions about her family, all of which she answered with childlike candor.

He had once had such a room in Paris, with a lofty, white, lacquered bed which is one stimulant the more, a source of depravity to old roues, leering at the false chastity and hypocritical modesty of Greuze's tender virgins, at the deceptive candor of a bed evocative of babes and chaste maidens.

"But you don't know, sir," she added, with a desperate candor, "the way I took to find it out!

But Horace's dignified candor won him the confidence of Maecenas; and that there might be no misunderstanding he included in his first book of Satires a simple account of what he was and hoped to be.

The disingenuous candor of Teresa's manner was in exquisite contrast to Dunn.

He turned and remarked with dry candor: "Marguerite has dropped me."

"We've got to get out of here," responded Jimsy, with embarrassing candor.

But with advancing light and the experience of depreciated currency from the multiplication of State banks, Clay had changed his views, exposing himself to the charge of inconsistency; which, however, he met with engaging candor, claiming rather credit for his ability and willingness to see the change of public needs.

He acknowledged freely, with a fatal candor, that, until he came to consider these things in their true light, when shut away from all outward influences, until compelled to quiet meditation beyond the reach and influence of mere enthusiasm, he had believed with Leclerc, even as Victor was believing now.

" All this Beethoven said to me the first time I saw him, and I was penetrated with a feeling of reverence when he expressed himself to me with such friendly candor, since I must have seemed very unimportant to him.

The scene was altogether such as to fill any hearty soul with impulses of genial friendliness and gentle candor; such a scene as will sometimes prepare a man of the world, upon the least direct incentive, to throw open the windows of his private thought with a freedom which the atmosphere of no counting-room or drawing-room tends to induce.

" "In some ways," Jack answered; and then he came a step nearer, his hand resting on the edge of the desk, as he looked into his father's eyes with glowing candor.

He is careful, indeed, to tell us very little of the contents of these works; but he talks about them with the most gratifying candor, and in his choicest phraseology.

Gerald's humorous candor was part of his charm, but Kit thought it deceptive.

There was an air of flippancy, of careless gayety, about Beaufort now very unlike the ingenuous candor, the boyish simplicity, of the Beaufort who had served as a volunteer under Rochambeau in the war of American independence.

" "But Temperance," said Verry, with a lamentable candor, "you can come back now.

He seemed pallid and old, struggling against a phantom himself; almost pitiful, this man of strength, while his eyes looked into Jack's with limpid candor.

46 adjectives to describe  candors