Transparency

Usage examples of openness.

But against the defects of this quality he was guarded by the openness of mind which results from the effort to improve and to keep abreast of the times in which one lives.

It is with regard to the active aspect of contemplation or contemplative prayer that the Christian tradition suggests methods or guidelines for freely opening ourselves to and actively sustaining states of receptive openness to God.

Self-furthering stratagems color even that perfect, informational openness, the unedited wonder of the most ideal human pursuit: good science.

Heady with the openness of Tirfelden society, which made the strictures of their homeland seem particularly suffocating, the two men had sought entertainment in a local inn and, being unused to the potency and uncontrolled availability of the Tirfelden ale, had ill-advisedly ventured into a particularly heated argument.

With a single near-scream, she came againand at the moment of total openness, total relaxation, Brok sank the full length of his cock into her waiting pussy.

It tests you for the five major domains of personality: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.

There was an openness about his manner, about even his features, which Merlin could not reconcile with the Old Heritage at all.

The resulting social and political unrest - coupled with violent, though typically impotent, protests against the war, America and the political leadership - is unlikely to convince panicky tottering regimes to offer greater political openness and participatory democracy.

Orientalism staked its existence, not upon its openness, its receptivity to the Orient, but rather on its internal, repetitious consistency about its constitutive will-to-power over the Orient.

While Tintoretto and Veronese moved toward openness and the asymmetrical, the two Gabrielis moved, in their motets and their instrumental music, toward harmony, toward regular scansion and the closed form.

Good working relationships are a function of both personalities, the skills, warmth, and techniques of the therapist, the degree these two people just plain need and like each other, the amount of trust and openness the patient can develop in this situation, and so on.

Edith smiled a welcome, inviting Lady Appleton in with an openness that was almost enough to make her seem innocent of any crime.

Disguised as a Venetian nobleman, he proposed to sit for his portrait to that Antonella who first brought the secret from Flanders, and while Antonella worked with unsuspicious openness, Gian Bellini watched the process and stole the secret.

Spirit is preeminently the empty Ground, or groundless Emptiness, fully present at each and every stage of evolution, as the openness in which the particular stage unfolds, as well as the substance of that which is unfolded.

That openness to new ideas, combined with the most rigorous, sceptical scrutiny of all ideas, sifts the wheat from the chaff.