| It puts aside its bluntness of assessment, its bluntness of prediction and careens right into the future with all sorts of new predictions. |
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| The governor has shown flashes of the same bluntness in his prime-time campaigning. |
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| Finally one day when I could contain myself no longer I blurted my question with the bluntness of a curious seven-year. |
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| Former Republic of Ireland manager he might be, but there is more Yorkshire bluntness than Hibernian blarney to Mick McCarthy's manner. |
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| His bluntness did not always make him popular, particularly with those he thought were swinging the lead, but his team were always focussed. |
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| Thus, we get both the boiling guitar heroics and songs that bristle to the point of bluntness. |
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| If that sort of bluntness piques your interest, then the debut LP from Milwaukee's finest is made for you. |
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| His bluntness is softened by a naturally upbeat demeanour and a notable lack of self-importance. |
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| But there is, in many of its aspects, a confrontational bluntness that ensures relegation to the peripheries. |
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| But his strange ways to dress and his undiplomatic bluntness made him many enemies. |
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| An interesting article in The Globe and Mail today expresses the chief's bluntness and down-to-earth qualities. |
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| This helped him to avoid staleness and the sensual bluntness that breeds mistakes. |
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| Of course, there are different ways of being honest, with various degrees of gentleness and bluntness. |
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| On the other hand, because of the bluntness of his approach, he is more like a virus than a cure. |
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| Design and bluntness join in this spectacular chimney in which it emphasizes his crystal door. |
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| It is, if you will excuse my bluntness, a one-hour flight to a place where you can use the same language used by a majority of Canadians. |
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| Streamlined wheelchairs crash into each other with the ferocity of a demolition derby, and coaches bark orders from the sideline, with their usual bluntness. |
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| The audience laughed at the bluntness, and at the expectation that an answer could be had so easily. |
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| Sometimes her bluntness felt painful, but her lack of hypocrisy was inspiring. |
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| The U.S. envoy is direct for a diplomat, but she showed during the Libyan crisis that bluntness can be effective. |
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| A self-taught artist, Ferdinand achieves an appealing bluntness, with the detail and graphic quality of reportage, using watercolor, colored pencil and ballpoint pen. |
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| Pardon my bluntness but neither of you is a spring lamb anymore. |
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| Bengali speaks with courtly floweriness even when sticking the knife in, and Thompson's well-meaning British bluntness was not appreciated. |
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| If there was a problematic trait connected to her background it was, say insiders, her Yorkshireness – a habit of bluntness with criticism, to which Cameron is allergic. |
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| Thus he plays his weak hand with a bluntness that often backfires. |
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| But through inexperience or just Dutch bluntness, he spoke out of turn. |
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| Monique is of a type rather new to American fiction's provinces, a post-Communist Russian, saucily enriching the free world with her native energy and bluntness. |
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| The play has an unmediated heat, anger and bewilderment, like the scream of a wounded man surprised by injury, and the bluntness and hurriedness of someone who wants to say something important fast. |
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| It outrode the astonishment of Natasha's proposal, its amazing bluntness for which he could find no answer. |
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| Consider that this may be interpreted by others as bluntness. |
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| He listed three areas where public education was needed: the bluntness of monetary policy, the monetary transmission mechanism and the importance of lags, and the effect of oil-price shocks on monetary policy. |
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| I am being blunt because bluntness is called for in this situation. |
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| The question is: to what extent will the bluntness of the price signal inhibit incentives to abate if compliance obligations are imposed at the processor level? |
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| I hope you will excuse my bluntness when I say that it may well turn out, tomorrow, that there will be more determined backing for it from our ranks than there will be from elements within your own group. |
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| In that case, the bluntness argument applies to both monetary policy and prudential policy, and therefore bluntness may not be a strong argument against using monetary policy to lean against financial imbalances. |
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| For two years several of us, at G7 level and in particular under the German Presidency of the G7, demanded, with a certain bluntness of tone, more extensive regulation of the financial markets. |
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| His tactlessness combined with his bluntness made him many enemies. |
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