candors

All purities and all candors meet in that celestial and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of coquettes, possesses the magic power of causing the sudden blossoming, in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with perfume and with poison, which is called love.

Les Miserables 2008

BASH: First of all, how do you expect to do here in all candors?

CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2008 2008

Observing her closely he was amused -- and pleased -- to note that she was struggling to compose herself to endure his candors as a necessary part of the duties and obligations she had taken on herself when she gave up and returned to him.

Grain of Dust. 1911

It didn't seem possible that after the candors of that talk he could still be keeping something back from her.

Mary Wollaston Henry Kitchell Webster 1903

His lies are not found out: they pass for candors.

Caesar and Cleopatra George Bernard Shaw 1903

Wherever she looked, the candors of her girlhood were violated.

Imperial Purple Edgar Saltus 1889

Observing her closely he was amused -- and pleased -- to note that she was struggling to compose herself to endure his candors as a necessary part of the duties and obligations she had taken on herself when she gave up and returned to him.

The Grain of Dust David Graham Phillips 1889

All purities and all candors meet in that celestial and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of coquettes, possesses the magic power of causing the sudden blossoming, in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with perfume and with poison, which is called love.

Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius 1862

All purities and all candors meet in that celestial and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of coquettes, possesses the magic power of causing the sudden blossoming, in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with perfume and with poison, which is called love.

Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843