Sentences with phrase «as blunt»

That's about as blunt as it gets, and it's causing consternation among many of the tenants of the burned out building.

I don't think anybody does and that can not be tackled through anything as blunt as legislation.»

The cause of death was listed as blunt force trauma to the head.

They function as a blunt instrument that may deprive courts of the ability to tailor proportionate sentences at the lower end of a sentencing range.»

It's hard to confirm that church membership is more than passively correlated to being a tenant, as any blunt question will (inevitably) trigger suspicion against me.

If you have sustained a personal injury such as blunt force trauma then you will greatly benefit from the legal assistance of a personal injury attorney from the Law Offices of Charles R. Gueli.

Maybe we should rethink our green strategies and stop using questionable science as a blunt instrument of change.

This was at a critical time, when benefit - cost analysis was being used as a blunt weapon to cripple environmental regulations.

The color is as blunt as the marking, and equally as revelatory since working into the entire surface wet at once, over the dry layer means she gives herself one chance to get the image she's after.

Henry Taylor «s title choices are often as blunt, cheeky and colorful as his images.

I had not known Ben Shahn as a photographer or Marsden Hartley as a blunt portraitist, but I will not forget them now.

Otherwise, you can be seen as a blunt, harsh, dickhead.

Beat - em - ups are not a particularly varied genre by nature, but when you have a premise as blunt as «beat up...

Brick Breaker (Sanuk Games, $ 4.99)-- Normally I'd be rolling my eyes at the thought of yet another Breakout clone bustling through the eShop — especially one with as blunt a name as Brick Breaker.

Sharp as a needle or as blunt as a Warhammer, whatever suits the job.

When you make a decision or say something to a character, the game often makes a point to say «Clementine will remember that» as a blunt way of informing you that your decisions have consequences.

Dogs may injure themselves just like humans can by a small fall, twisting or from activity (as well as blunt trauma); it may be a simple injury which will self resolve with rest, restrict Moreno's movement and take him outside on the lead to stop him from moving too much.

In active animal cruelty, the animal suffers physical abuse such as blunt - force trauma, choking, kicking and so forth.

That's about as blunt as it gets, and it's causing consternation among many of the tenants of the burned out building.

This can be as blunt as Amazon's recommendation system (which has inherent flaws due to the history and size of Amazon) or a subtle personalisation system that surfaces some books in preference to others without us even noticing, a very subtle form of hand - selling if you will.

Often it's as blunt as: «Why do you write such depressing stories?

Heathcliff, Cathy & co are as blunt towards each other as characters of their fledgling age probably would be (this is a world where virtually no one makes it past the age of 25, seemingly), and Arnold's approach of casting relative newcomers pays, for the most part, great dividends, even if it makes the film a little rough around the edges in places.

- winning ** screenwriter William Goldman (All the President's Men) and directed by Rob Reiner (A Few Good Men), this chiller starring Kathy Bates (Titanic) and James Caan (The Godfather), is «a Hitchcockian kind of cat - and - mouse» (The New York Times) gameplayed between two cunning mindsone as sharp as a tack and the other as blunt as a sledgehammer.

One of the best of the supporting bunch is the great Gene Hackman as blunt director «Lowell Kolchek».

Carrie Coon is paired nicely with Affleck as his blunt twin sister who acts like an external conscious, reminding everyone of the ludicrous nature of the situation.

Pan's Labyrinth's protracted fascist metaphors and its ghoulish grace notes are nearly as blunt and horrifying as anything in Crash, and the film may even register as realism to the same group of voters who actually bought Sandra Bullock embracing her Hispanic maid.

Keener's performance keeps the film grounded even as blunt scenes of the opposing camp's machinations flirt with soap opera villainy.

Watching Kristen Wiig's lived - in and alive performance as this blunt, practical, and yet totally innocent woman is to be in the presence of something very very special.

You can be just as blunt on what you want: «Not them.»

Senate Agricultural Appropriations Chair John Hoeven (R - ND) was as blunt as McCain: «The president's proposed budget reduction for agriculture does not work.»

Within a species, when some individuals have a trait that aids their survival — such as a blunt beak that allows them to crack open tough seed coverings — they will pass on the genes for that trait to their offspring, whereas individuals with pointed beaks will have died.

And the mayor's spokesman, Eric Phillips, responded with equally as blunt remarks.

«Can you imagine somebody as blunt as me on the campaign trail?»

A non-binding resolution on lead ammunition, adopted by an international wildlife conference, has been described as a blunt, ineffective and unnecessary instrument by the UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).

Nonetheless it is used as a blunt instrument in bludgeoning the current Polish government for political gain.

The international break, originally started as a blunt instrument of medieval torture deployed by the...

We're used to them using their checkbook as a blunt object because that's what the richest teams do.

There is however a widely held opinion about Arsenal's huge midfield creativity that masquerades as fact — often used as a blunt instrument to bludgeon OG with.

Glen Rose, who produces winning basketball at Arkansas without fuss or fancy stuff, has a team as blunt as the Ozark countryside which may be best in the Southwest

Any poor and ignorant fool can abide by a prescription as blunt and sharply defined as a prohibition against gay marriage.

Perhaps not as blunt, and perhaps as unjust as the «do we hang them before or after we try them» phenomena, but it gets pretty close to that.

Republican politicians have been using Christianity as a blunt weapon for many years.

Julie: Sorry if I came across as blunt.

Of course the language is not as blunt, but this is what we tell kids with our actions.

Best of all, she suggests that people of faith do themselves and others a disservice when they use the bible selectively to bolster their arguments for specific political views and lifestyle prescriptions, using it «as a blunt weapon», as she puts it.

A ferocious sell - off on Wall Street on Friday - with stocks tumbling and bond yields rising after the January U.S. jobs report suggested higher inflation ahead - served as a blunt reminder of the challenges Powell's Fed will face.

Founded in 1942 as Burns and Dutton Concrete and Construction Company Ltd., the firm now describes itself on its website in a way that is as blunt as it is charming: It promises a «think straight, talk straight, do - it - right - once approach with no surprises.»

As Exxon's CEO for a decade he built a reputation in the business world as a blunt talker who sticks to his guns.

by Walter Chaw Four years separate Satoshi Kon's astonishing Perfect Blue and his astonishing Millennium Actress; it seems that what the intervening period brought to Kon's palette is a strong sense of visual humour and an affecting pathos to cut the existential dread of his identity crises — the year or two distancing Tokyo Godfathers from Millennium Actress further refining Kon as a humorist even as it blunted his razor's edge.

At the end of a year when its main competitors, Netflix and Hulu, took significant chunks out of TV's ivory towers, Betas and Alpha House come across as blunted attacks.