| She conveys the ugliest things with matter-of-factness, helping to demystify death. |
| The characters' matter-of-factness in using a fake gem signals their resignation to the absence of the original and awareness that it can only be restored through a copy. |
| There's nothing artificial about his enthusiasm and matter-of-factness. |
| Aurora laughed and reinforced her expression of jolly matter-of-factness, looking into his eyes with eyes of sanative fun. |
| The statement is made with a common-sense matter-of-factness that resonates, even as part of me says it doesn't work that way. |
| Here are matters of immense religious complexity being discussed with complete matter-of-factness by garage mechanics and shop hands. |
