Further, while competition and betrayal are the main thorns to female friendship; men are plagued in almost equal amounts by two additional issues, lack of frankness and a fear of appearing unmanly.
Why didn't you come out in the open and tell me what it was? You'd have stood a much better chance of getting it, for if there's one virtue I value in women it's frankness.
Catherine's openness about her diagnosis and treatment, and her frankness about the emotional challenges she, William and their children have faced have been praised by experts in the cancer field.
They attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness, presenting characters of low social and economic classes who were determined by their environment and heredity.
Perhaps her face had something to do with it, for she forgot to hide her joy at seeing him, and showed it with a frankness that proved irresistible to the solitary man, whose welcome far exceeded his boldest hopes.
They took her at her own valuation and endured much at her hands, her airs, her graces, her tempers, her arrogance, her downright rudeness and her frankness about their shortcomings.