He waits until you speak to him, so that he can respond as curtly and bluntly as possible. |
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She replied bluntly, not bothering with the common courtesy Elizabeth expected. |
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My own husband, who is more realistic about his profession than most, gets a little shirty when I express myself so bluntly. |
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Cholly was to play his toothsome, verdant secretary who was, quiet bluntly, very dim. |
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The essence of the audience's rising ire was bluntly summarised in an incredulous question from the floor. |
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The journalist claimed he was treated bluntly and said the staff attitude made no business sense and he could have been making a booking. |
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The surgeon incises the skin and bluntly dissects through the subcutaneous fat to expose the sartorius. |
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In the harsh light of a rising logical positivism, they appeared too bluntly subjective to remain science's cutting edge. |
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One friend curled her lip and told him bluntly that the Kelly story wasn't relevant to her. |
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To put it bluntly, it is the worship of money that was behind the transactions. |
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To put this bluntly, art and its processes have always been incomprehensible to philistines and ideologues on the right and left. |
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He enters, apologises bluntly for keeping us waiting, and says he's extremely busy, so let's get on with it. |
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I do believe there is something to be said at times for speaking bluntly and coarsely. |
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The legs also look particularly rigid, and the clumpy feet, lacking such details as claws, contact the ground bluntly. |
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This may be stretching a point, but it does underline how bluntly the race card figures in the current conflict. |
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Out of the blankness that floated thickly through my mind, one thing bluntly shone its way through. |
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Put bluntly, these birds, which include crows, ravens, magpies, and jays, can be real jerks. |
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I hear on the grapevine that she was asked to reduce her invoice and bluntly refused. |
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It is my evaluation that the Greenhouse Theory is junk science, to put it bluntly. |
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Or to put it more bluntly, some hypotheticals obscure more than they reveal. |
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The diaphragm is then bluntly dissected away from the parietal peritoneum, leaving the peritoneum behind. |
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The new Europe minister insists he is no Eurosceptic, but declares bluntly that even pro-Europeans have to accept reality. |
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She was neither muscled nor cruel, but yet had an exacting eye for detail and always spoke directly and bluntly. |
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As ever, the finely nuanced statement did not put matters quite so bluntly. |
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Or more bluntly, how much of our publicly-funded research is going down the gurgler? |
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Highly conservative in doctrine and bluntly liberal in his social views, the pontiff has galvanised the Church. |
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The surgeon bluntly dissected all detected adhesions from the omentum on the duodenum into the gallbladder and dissected the gallbladder free. |
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Some owners bluntly told their slaves they did not want the financial burden of women and children without the reward of cheap slave labor. |
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He says bluntly that he seeks to shrink government to the size where he can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. |
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It was bluntly perforated in front of the mamillary bodies with the aid of a catheter. |
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That may well be true of course, though few have ever stated it so bluntly. |
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I was just pressing the shutter button when the camera smashed bluntly, sharply into the bones surrounding my right eye socket. |
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The audience stood up and applauded him as, in his usual style, he made the point bluntly and undiplomatically. |
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This is a charge that the Sun columnist has been bluntly hammering him with day in and day out. |
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I reminded him bluntly about his reaction last week to the comments of the man who used to pimp him, and I elicited tears. |
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The committee bluntly rejected busing the higher classes to Amherst for a number of reasons. |
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He attributes the decline of literary style in great part to the poetry of World War I, which tried to describe inexpressible horrors as bluntly and simply as possible. |
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Some blinded veterans recall that doctors did little more than bluntly inform them of the finality of their condition, and ask them if they had any questions. |
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Yes, they indulge in coprophagy or, more bluntly, poo-eating. |
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Take, for example, the fact that while Lovecraft is usually described as a forefather of modern horror fiction, his stories are, to put it bluntly, not very scary. |
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The directness of the message, which is somewhat bluntly conveyed, is a somewhat disappointing end to an extraordinary novel that is full of subtlety and cunning. |
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That's partly because, to put it bluntly, the same old dunderheads are running the studios, and they show their true colors simply by opening their mouths. |
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Mr. Mahon is not a wine connoisseur, he says bluntly, with an audible curl of the lip at the fancy French word. |
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I bluntly asked him if he planned on killing someone and made him think about what he was doing. |
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To put it bluntly, this is a typical case of setting a thief to catch a thief. |
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To put it bluntly, these crude propaganda-driven reports are very wide of the mark. |
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Vittorio de Sica said, somewhat more bluntly, that television is the only sleeping pill we take through our eyes. |
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That too is enormous progress, because to put it bluntly, it takes more than an atom bomb to wage war. |
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I may be putting it bluntly, but honesty compels me to do this if I study the countryside's social structure. |
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There is a real problem of what I would refer to bluntly as ethno-chauvinism in the media. |
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To put it bluntly, it seems that investors took Obama's advice and bought some undervalued stocks. |
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When she spoke to the Pope in Avignon she said, 'The honour of Almighty God compels me to speak bluntly. |
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This week's Hill Times carries a full-page ad bluntly telling the minister that his remarks lack truth. |
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To put it more bluntly, the globalization of organized crime has so far moved much faster than the globalization of law enforcement. |
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Gardiner added bluntly a 106,000-acre cap by itself would probably do little to impact prices. |
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Put bluntly, agents reaped the rewards while principals had to bear the consequences when they failed to assess the risks correctly. |
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To put it bluntly, Games Workshop estimated one day that it was shooting itself in the foot with all those alternate product lines. |
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To put it bluntly, a country can have perfect budgetary stability and hardly any debt yet become poorer. |
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To put it bluntly, the accuracy of the facts and the quality of the analyses are not in themselves enough. |
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He bluntly declared that egalitarian notions must be abandoned. |
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It was very unlike him to do something so bluntly and abruptly. |
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I had a couple bluntly tell me that they hated it here, with the silent expectation that I would too. |
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To put this bluntly, historical catachresis is a way of borrowing literary criticism's understanding of textuality to point beyond the literary text. |
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To recognize this political fact and state it bluntly in no way minimizes the criminal repression carried out by the ruling elite in Russia against the Chechen people. |
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He bluntly admits that their model for integration has failed. |
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Harris wishes to convict religious belief of mulish literalism, while attacking its tenets in the most bluntly prosaic and anachronistic terms he can muster. |
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To put it bluntly, the election was tantamount to a stitch-up. |
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Some bluntly blamed school teachers for not introducing Sundanese culture and not teaching them how to write poems and fiction in Sundanese or Indonesian. |
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I would love to speak bluntly to those gangbanging teens and wanna-bes and tell them prison is nothing like what you think. |
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People told us bluntly that when you've struggled to pay your rent for years and stared into an empty fridge too many times to remember, your faith in governments drops pretty low. |
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To put this bluntly, this is not the best approach to regional policy, because we pursue regional policy in order to reduce disparities in accordance with Article 158 and not to solve the net balance questions. |
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I would bluntly and blatantly argue that the prebudget consultation process that took place, in probably the shortest timeframe in history, was the broadest that has ever happened. |
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A sign attached to a telegraph pole in the town puts it more bluntly. |
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Many of the practices involved are, to put it bluntly, market distortions which are not only frowned on in Europe, but illegal under our European anti-trust policy. |
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The shortcomings lie, however, in their insufficient flexibility, or to put it more bluntly, inability to adapt to new security challenges such as the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or terrorism. |
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Minister Ritz stated in a televised agriculture debate last month that he bluntly informed the U. S. government that Canada will initiate a WTO panel when this law comes into effect. |
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The G20 leaders face the task of creating regulation which will prevent further speculative banks from emerging and, to put it bluntly, swindling millions of customers of financial institutions all over the world. |
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But while the fruit and vegetable industry is pleased to see the elevated importance placed on their products, Reaume bluntly admits that the consumer may be confused for a while with the new recommendations. |
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Putting it bluntly, it was based on a value judgement that the white race was superior to the black race. |
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Gilroy's bluntly satirical view of journalists compromising not just professional integrity but the law itself, in the name of finishing first, marks a juncture where things could either get more honourable or far, far worse. |
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Then the paired sternohyoid muscles were bluntly separated and the oesophagus was exteriorized. |
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Liverpool were 5-0 down at half-time, utterly humiliated at the hands of a rampaging Stoke City, and, to put it bluntly, these are the sort of performances that see clubs and managers part company. |
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In a trail for tonight's interview with Jeremy Paxman, Mr Blair is clearly seen squirming when the Newsnight presenter bluntly asks him if it is okay to accept money from a pornography publisher. |
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I have a reputation for speaking bluntly, so let me be blunt. |
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Where Mr Abe used bluntly to bring up China's human-rights record and its lack of military transparency, people who know Mr Fukuda say that there is no question of his raising such indelicate issues with the Chinese. |
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To put it bluntly, the Erdoy-an regime has illegitimately destroyed the opposition in Turkey. |
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The sac was bluntly dissected and delivered from the mediastinum into the neck. |
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To put it bluntly, young people are up against a tough proposition. |
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This is not a factor in our case, so we'd like the people in NAV CANADA and Transport to sit down with us and review this situation that they're bluntly turning a blind eye to. |
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The two valves are roughly triangular or bluntly oblong with rounded umbones near the anterior end. |
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To put it bluntly, we are witnessing the decline and fall of the Protestant work ethic in Europe. |
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He said bluntly, 'It is alopecia, but it's too late to do anything about it as the hair loss is now so extensive, nothing can be done. |
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The deltoid muscle was bluntly split to expose the rotator cuff. |
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Why is it, to speak bluntly, that so much of what we are called upon to admire as art has the smirking, rebarbative quality of a bad joke? |
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The environment, as one commentator put it bluntly, is where we live. |
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Put bluntly, multinational companies possess a variety of factors that developing countries must have if they are to participate in the global economy. |
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But the police bluntly prepared its report blaming the CAB for the power trip, without even showing the report to the other members of the committee. |
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