I assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part, however low it may sink me, shall never break the ties of personal friendship between us.
It was certainly, to any candid mind, a sufficient reason.
My dear Miss Summerson," he returned with a candid hilarity that was all his own, "I can't be bribed.
I write down these opinions not because I believe that this or any other thing was so because I thought so, but only because I did think so and I want to be quite candid about all I thought and did.
But it appeared to me--I dare say magnifying the importance of the thing--that it was respectful to explain to you how the matter stood and candid to consult your wishes and convenience.
He laughed, but as usual seemed quite candid and really to mean what he said.
He was strongly impressed by the novelty and good sense of the ideas that her husband advocated, and was candid enough openly to acknowledge it.
To an intelligent and candid judge of human actions it will not appear that any of the persons at whose expense the Adventure Galley was fitted out deserved serious blame.
As candid old Mrs. Waring had told her, "Don't be a silly, my dear.
I oughtn't to talk this way about your friends--but it's hard for me not to be candid .
In a word, we've got to have a free and a candid press.
The more candidwould upbraid him and attempt conciliation: the more tactful would be sympathetic.
Closed, candid lily, she did not smile, she did not move.
And not a quiver passed over her cheeks of satiny freshness, no sign, however faint, of anxiety or inquisitiveness appeared in her candid glance.
He had awoke free of all fatigue and again full of courage and candid enthusiasm; nothing remaining of his strange despondency of the previous night, the doubts and suspicions which had then come over him.
The man one loves is never absent," declared Celia with her grave, candid air.
Benedetta contented herself with smiling; neither reproach nor expression of sadness came from her at this candid display of egotism.
Let us make every deduction which a candid criticism is compelled to claim, and Theodore Parker stands a noble representative of Republican America.
A man who can conceive a character so much above the common level, where the common level has always been low, cannot fail by continued observation and candid thinking to rise still higher.
He asked Lord John what the views and intentions of Government were, and Lord John explained everything to him in the most open and candid manner.
I said, 'If you want my candid opinion, I will give it you.
He had the bright rosy complexion of a young Englishwoman, with large eyes which had a melancholy candid look.
The instructive compilations made by the Benedictines and the Jesuits, even the candid and curious work of Albert Legrand, a Dominican of Morlaix, reproduce but a very small fraction of them.
But, notwithstanding this absurdity, this vanity, Cornelie came to like the pretty American girl because of hercandid and unsophisticated nature.
She looked at him for some time before answering: "Shall I be candid with you?
We would, then, ask any candid man, if it would be possible for any government to act more leniently towards Ireland as regards taxation?
A nearer examination, however, will convince everycandid enquirer, that individual character exercises, if not a paramount, yet a very powerful influence on human affairs.
He fixed his gaze anxiously upon his nephew, and longed for the candid eyes which told all Susan's sentiments and emotions; but that doubtful face said nothing of itself.
When he saw Roger opposite to him, with his eager, ingenuous face, and a world of undisguised youthful anxieties and disquietude shining in his candid eyes, the old man fell into a momentary pause of silence and embarrassment.
He confides in Susan Nipper, being alone with her, and tells her what his feelings were when she gave him that candid opinion as to the probability of Miss Dombey's ever loving him.
Yet, whilst noting it, candid students will regretfully confess that the career of Elizabeth and her counsellors is defaced by shades of bad faith, darker and more numerous.
I had no means of knowing at that time that when he was impressive he was his least candid and trustworthy self.
If I were to sin my sins over again, I think I should sin a little more on the side of candid severity.
Lucky you," she breathed, and at his expression of candid surprise she half laughed.
Well, I'm thinking of Aunt Fulda," said the candid Angelica.
I did it," said the candid Angelica; "and it looked unpleasant, so I tied it up.
There was something irresistibly comic in this candid avowal of the force of habit, and all the more so because she was too much in earnest for once to see the humour of it herself.
Then a friend, in whose single-mindedness and judgment I know I can rely, advises the step, and immediately upon the back of that comes a fair and candid offer.
Read those two letters, and give us your candid opinion upon them.
During a very few minutes' consideration, Henry, with the frank andcandid disposition which was so strong a characteristic of his character, made up his mind to explain all this fully to Charles Holland and his uncle.
The simple, the noble, the candid Laura guilty of coquetry?
This was the first system of concealment that had ever darkened her fair and candid mind; and she wept bitterly when she convinced herself, that from such conduct there was no escape.
I will promise to becandid with you on every subject,' said Laura, rejoiced at this opportunity of entering on her justification.
De Courcy was silent for a moment, and then taking her hand, said, 'May I be candid with you?
Mrs Douglas looked on the open candid countenance of Laura, and her suspicions vanished in a moment; but they returned when her young friend reiterated her intreaties that she would not hint the subject to her father.
And if I answer you,' returned Mrs De Courcy, 'will you promise to be candid with me on a subject where ladies think that candour may be dispensed with?
Every one made way for her, waited upon her, eager to serve her, partly because she was Marshall Haney's wife, but more because of her youth and the brave heart which looked from her clear and candid eyes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "candid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
