As they campaigned together, Breckinridge's eloquence contrasted with Combs' plainspoken style. He sings evocative lines laced with visceral melodies in a plainspoken voice. Moverover, the album's emotive lyrical content radiates with a plainspoken depiction of deep depression. Her work is described as direct, blunt and plainspoken. He addressed listeners as a plainspoken but calm mediator, not in stinging rhetoric. Good-natured, plainspoken tenant at Kellynch Hall and brother-in-law of Captain Wentworth. She had an open and plainspoken nature, and disliked excessive "politeness". Allmusic critic Stewart Mason commented on the "plainspoken intimacy" of King's performance. The march went forward under Abernathy's plainspoken leadership but did not achieve its goals.