openness

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Noun
  • His mastery of both emotional honesty and sociopolitical truth-telling puts him in Richard Pryor territory.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Obviously, loyalty and honesty, but also just someone who is fun to play the game with.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Debnam-Carey imbues Milla with the right level of sincerity to elicit empathy even when her practices are misguided, and Dee stands as a suitable voice of reason amid the copious noise (as does Ashley Zukerman as Bell’s beleaguered partner, Clive).
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 7 Feb. 2025
  • These words are one of the biggest markers of sincerity in language, according to Markowitz.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 1 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Natural light from a window can be hit or miss with the obvious hurdles for the seeds in getting enough light, possible cold exposure from the windows and experiencing cloudy days which further limits natural light.
    Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2025
  • For the cover of the February 10, 2025, issue, the cartoonist Tom Gauld suggests a novel form of light therapy for the winter months: exposure to the warming rays of a work of art.
    Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Butler, for example, leaned into the directness of warning.
    Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Underscoring the gravity of his message, Sullivan spoke with an urgency and directness that were rarely heard during his decade-plus in public life.
    Axios, Axios, 18 Jan. 2025
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“Openness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/openness. Accessed 17 Feb. 2025.

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