| Like all good caricatures, these interviews capture something of the truth, even if with exaggeration, and, as in all good interviews, the subjects speak freely, as if they were riffing unguardedly among friends. |
| Its owner had not seen him this way before, unguardedly enthusiastic, and he knew that joy, like a child's smile, made him appealing, and also somehow vulnerable. |
| Mr. Solondz winds thin tendrils of narrative around the dinner-table conversations, and allows everyone a chance to be earnestly foolish, unguardedly selfish and also, almost by accident, cruelly honest. |
| Emma's parents worked until late at their shop, and once her older brother had left to go to college, she had more freedom to stay out – as she had been unguardedly telling her new friends. |
| Lounging on the divan, his arms placed unguardedly before him, he had none of the tense, high-strung, honour-obsessed posture of his people. |
| The women suspended their labors, to catch such syllables as unguardedly fell from the lips of the consulting warriors. |
