A down to-earth matter-of-fact approach devoid of judgment is best, no matter how horrific the details. |
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And the work you did was more practical, more matter-of-fact than a liberal cause or a conservative crusade. |
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You're speaking about this in a very calm, matter-of-fact way, but it must have been a very strange, even emotional, experience. |
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Beautiful scenery combined with melancholy music and matter-of-fact narration to make a lovely little story. |
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His callous, matter-of-fact handling of the ropes, straps and paraphernalia of violent death was a despicable sight to see. |
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They speak in an almost matter-of-fact way, recounting the catalogue of bad behaviour that has characterised the adolescent years for Alan. |
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That last short sentence is so matter-of-fact, and describes such an everyday event, that I bet you hardly noticed it. |
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There was something about Lazar's matter-of-fact tone that made Carl 's skin crawl. |
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The sober and matter-of-fact presentation makes his discussion seem like just common sense. |
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The sentences were short and direct and, unsurprising in a letter to a stranger, largely matter-of-fact. |
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He was a gay bro, whose gay-ness was probably the most matter-of-fact thing about him. |
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These seemingly matter-of-fact, prosaic pictures are frequently animated by a quality that suggests the spiritual. |
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He sounded matter-of-fact when he told us good news and somehow sounded very convincing when he came out with the not so good news as well. |
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Beyond that, her soprano is strangely colorless, and her projection of the text flat and matter-of-fact. |
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Her choices effectively mute the character of Lady M, rendering her less toothsomely evil and more plainly matter-of-fact. |
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He was a bit crude and matter-of-fact in his dialogue, though he did promise me a box of Belgian chocolates. |
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Likewise, her voice has a matter-of-fact plaintiveness that defines, but can also box in, her performance. |
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Jefferson was quite prepared, in a matter-of-fact way, to equate the terms Federalist, aristocrat, monocrat, and Tory. |
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It is expressed not in high-flown language but as a down-to-earth matter-of-fact promise. |
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He tried to keep his tone matter-of-fact and business-like, but he couldn't completely hide the quiver of emotion as he spoke of leaving her. |
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So this limpid, adorable film is also a tough, matter-of-fact portrait of the everyday, not a sentimental, redemptive whitewash. |
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She said it flatly, a matter-of-fact statement, completely without emotion. |
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The author's training as a life coach and motivational speaker comes across in his informal, matter-of-fact tone. |
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I turned my pocket cards over and declared a King-high flush, trying to sound matter-of-fact about it, not too triumphant. |
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The film was written by Laurence Coriat, who has an ear for the sort of unadorned, matter-of-fact dialogue that says a lot by what it leaves out. |
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As a Virgo, she exhibits practicality and a matter-of-fact attitude, she has no patience for fiction. |
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Far from the stereotyped image of a kooky doomsday prepper, he was matter-of-fact and said that prepping was a kind of insurance. |
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Others are angry but matter-of-fact about a lifestyle that seems unbearably grim to the outsider. |
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If something embarrassing or exciting happens, the film presents it in a matter-of-fact, straightforward way. |
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He had reached the matter-of-fact realisation that law was, simply, a form of alchemy. |
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If such sensitive matters are brought up in a matter-of-fact way, most patients will respond freely. |
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The greatest trump card that he has to offer is his practical, matter-of-fact approach to tackling world poverty. |
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These aren't matter-of-fact troopers following orders, but sadistic voluptuaries, smacking their lips in satisfaction while doing a job that's fun. |
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A scene where Vinny stages a series of fake auto accidents to raise the funeral money is laugh-out-loud funny for its matter-of-fact duplicitousness. |
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And his most powerful tools are his matter-of-fact style — and his clerical collar. |
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In strong, matter-of-fact voices, the girls painted themselves as disloyal, untrustworthy, and sneaky. |
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The scene is written with a matter-of-fact restraint that lends it Great Power. |
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The exercise evokes no emotion, only matter-of-fact acknowledgment. |
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They are so matter-of-fact about it all that you never really get the sense of desperation or abjection that we're used to seeing in heroin narratives. |
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That, once again, was enough to generate peels of laughter as the crowd appreciated the new minister's matter-of-fact approach to life and business. |
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Steely and matter-of-fact, the Commonwealth super middleweight champion is part of an exciting wave of British talent set to swell on the world scene over the next two years. |
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He is very matter-of-fact about this, and I feel sorry for him when he looks at the state of the country, for which he fought so bravely, with so much disappointment. |
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Younger Europeans take Europe for granted in a matter-of-fact way. |
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Incredibly, both of them survived to tell the tale, and they do so here in the same detailed, matter-of-fact language you imagine Scott of the Antarctic would have used. |
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Some are straightforward and matter-of-fact, while others are essayistic. |
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But much of the detail lies lost between his matter-of-fact lines. |
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In a matter-of-fact style, great violence is done, but little action. |
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That throat slit is so real, so jarring, and so matter-of-fact. |
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Creighton was matter-of-fact, no emotion showing in his gravely voice. |
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As a result, the book is often casually poignant, its matter-of-fact style laying moments of absolute courage out for the reader with brutal honesty. |
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He does not feel disposed to comment on any previous problems at the club, but he does speak with the matter-of-fact optimism of a man with a new venture. |
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The unofficial status of microtoponymy on Vernon is illustrated by the matter-of-fact, spontaneous, and descriptive nature of such names. |
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In response to his matter-of-fact account of the war, in which he debunks her fiancé Sergius' heroism, Raina at first ridicules the intruder's cowardliness but ultimately appreciates his honesty. |
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The matter-of-fact mordancy of Emily Dickinson, the supreme poet of grief, may provide more balm to the mourner than the glad tidings of those who talk about how death can enrich us. |
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Even his most matter-of-fact, workmanlike paintings are charged with an entirely personal morbidity. |
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But if he or she is up-front and matter-of-fact about diabetes and the need to check blood sugar and eat on time, other people are likely to accept diabetes as just another part of a person, like height or hair color. |
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It had a self-regarding, matter-of-fact charisma. |
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