And, in frank language, he admitted the firm's shortcomings.

"And we're not children here," he added, "so why should we avoid frank language?"

The Street used frank language and had gritty, adult subject matter.

But Perot at least would have taken it to the voters and tried to explain it to them in plain, frank language.

She did note that some foreign leaders were accepting of the frank language of the cables, with one telling her, "Don't worry about it.

As for the frank language, White said, "We kept it to what was very well understood without going into the technical details."

His language on the sideline, usually loud and frank, barely wounded his players.

In unusually frank language, he called Lebanon a "puppet state" controlled by Syria.

It has sexual situations and frank sexual language.