Sentences with phrase «blunt at»

I'll add that although you've been blunt at times (as have I), you've done a nice job of remaining courteous (as, I hope, have I.) That doesn't always happen in these dialogues, and I appreciate it.

Shell small, elongate, pellucid white, exhibiting the red dried remains of the animal, smooth, glossy, rather blunt at the apex; whorls 8, a little convex, slowly and regularly increasing, narrowly marginate beneath the slightly oblique suture; aperture ovate, acuminate above; peristome whitish, the outer margin curved forward in the middle, somewhat sinuated above and at the base; columellar margin thickened, reflexed, joined above to the outer lip by a thin callosity.

Their arcs are too blunt at times and wishy - washy at others, but both actors have the parts down so well that they manage to sell just about everything from the amusing banter to some particularly intense emotional scenes.

While muffled and blunt at times, Sylvester Stallone's persona is fit for his hitman character.

She's too blunt at times and firmly believes there's nothing a good story can't fix.

I am funny, straight forward and blunt at times,,, passionate, romantic, loving, caring, open minded, down to earth, and i love to please... but i am faithful when i have one man and to one man... my Nationality is Austrian, Scottish, French, Ind ian, Irish, Black Decent honest, trustworthy, f unny...

I'm blunt at times but if i wasn't then I'm not true to myself.

i tend to be a smartass sometimes, and can also be very blunt at times.

I can be really blunt at times, and at other times annoyingly sarcastic.

The reviewer became very blunt at a point.

Maggie: This didn't sound blunt at all, and I'm thrilled to have a school food service worker reading and commenting on The Lunch Tray.

We look so blunt at the moment and the team looks so disjointed on the pitch as though the players are still in pre-season mode.

Not exact matches

Dimon is known for being blunt, but I wouldn't go that far at this point.

But sitting down for an interview at the event, Waugh warned some of the blunt tools preferred by regulators would do more harm than good.

Leopold Traugott, policy analyst at Open Europe, told CNBC Friday that this «blunt rejection» has thrown up an issue for Schulz.

But flattery or, to be blunt, sucking up to superiors appears to be at least as useful in the climb to the top.

«Amazon's infrastructure, to be very blunt, is old,» Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd said Tuesday at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco.

The often blunt CEO of JPMorgan Chase rose up the ranks of Wall Street and, after being ousted from Citigroup by former CEO Sandy Weill, later went on to the top job at JPMorgan and is credited with leading the bank through the financial crisis relatively unscathed compared to other banks.

Donald Trump Jr.'s comments, at the start of a trip to woo buyers for his luxury residential projects in several Indian cities, appeared aimed at blunting criticism that there could be a possible conflict of interest in pushing the Trump brand name.

Suddenly turning into Wolverine might make you look at a more blunt and aggressive approach.

What is emerging to replace the resume is a reputation system, or at the moment, lots of them, ranging from the blunt (a Twitter retweet) to the more personal (a written LinkedIn recommendation).

His feedback was short, blunt and not at all flattering to me — but it was very helpful and pointed me toward additional research I could do.

For Trump, the dispute runs the risk of blunting the economic benefits of his tax overhaul, which is at the center of congressional Republicans» case for voters to keep them in power in the 2018 elections.

At Facebook founder and CEO's Mark Zuckerberg's hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday, lawmakers were blunt about what they see as the company's flaws — its inadequate self - policing, lack of transparency, and reluctance to give users more control over their own data.

Owning a scrappy startup that has already blunted the market for pricey razors at rival Procter & Gamble's expense doubles the edge.

QUEBEC — The Parti Quebecois government tabled what it calls a «responsible» budget Thursday aimed at erasing doubts over the party's economic record and blunting opponent attacks ahead of an expected spring election.

«At the same time, it's somewhat surprising that the largest, richest social network on the planet has to resort to a blunt instrument like a total ban on ads related to a specific space,» Silver mentioned.

In a blunt note to clients on Monday, analysts at Morgan Stanley said the move «goes beyond expectations, raising concerns of a possible policy mistake».

Calacanis, a podcasting pioneer, gives you an insider's look at what's happening in the tech industry with his trademark blunt style and good humor.

You certainly are blunt there at the end!

When sung in a warm, candlelit church at Advent, it can be easy to blunt these words, to imagine them as symbolic, non-specific, comforting.

Even the Brundtland Commission, which at first glance seems to be an exception with its blunt language about unsustainable population growth, ends in a familiar UN place: «Talking of population just as numbers glosses over an important point: People are also a creative resource, and this creativity is an asset societies must tap....

He may also have thought that Whitehead's theism belonged with theism in general as a fallacious attempt to humanize the universe; for Santayana, though he saw theistic religion as possessing a type of poetic or symbolic truth, was, at the level of blunt factuality, an atheist.)

Highlighting the new attempts to impose a gender ideology he has been blunt «Today, children are taught this at school: that everyone can choose their own sex.

We're horrified by injustice, and we immediately turn to the state for solutions, even when the law isn't likely to succeed because it's too blunt — or even if it could, but at disproportionate cost.

Deniers, as both Lipstadt and Vidal - Naquet show, seem to have an endless supply of polemical tricks and dodges: they simply discount Jewish testimony out of hand as lie or fantasy; inculpatory testimony from the Nazis themselves is said to have been coerced by the triumphant Allies; documents confirming such testimony are said to be forgeries; Nazi statements and memoranda about the Final Solution are taken at face value if they are euphemistically phrased, but are interpreted as hyperbolic or figurative if they are blunt and explicit; photographs and films of executions are dismissed as fakes.

US and Chinese companies have signed business deals valued at nine billion US dollars (# 6.84 billion) during a visit by President Donald Trump in a traditional move aimed at blunting criticism of Beijing's trade practices.

At least for a time, traditionalist elements would remain in the Church, hoping to blunt, if not roll back entirely, the impact of the progressive victory.

The first time that he stretched out this cross upon his back his tender frame was struck with terror at it, and blunted the sharp nails slightly against a stone.

The actual Greek is extremely blunt and matter - of - fact, not at all obfuscating.

The Law, at it's best, is a blunt instrument.

Press the pepper into the steak with a blunt instrument and leave the steaks out, uncovered, at room temperature, for at least one hour.

Salt will blunt beets» color, so add only at the end of cooking if needed.

With a short blunt knife, his throat is sawn at, while his legs scramble in vain.

There's only a mighty cliff of a man, sucking at the remaining inch of what must have been an epic blunt.

if our defending had been going well, the effects of lack of our attack would at least be blunted somewhat.

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

Last year's version was more terrifying, at least in the blunt punishment division, but this version was still entertaining.

But there is no point having two strikers (neither of whom are particularly mobile) if you don't give them any service and, at the same time, you blunt your most dangerous weapon by playing the wing backs in a flat back four.

Swansea had won seven consecutive games at the Liberty Stadium since losing to Tottenham in the league at the start of January, but the absence of the Ayew brothers — Jordan was suspended and Andre was cup - tied — blunted their attack, while their midfield and defence could not cope with Tottenham's subtle movement.