Sentences with phrase «blunt in»

The Washington Post was pretty blunt in explaining what buyers expect now: «Buyers these days want to move into a home and be done with it.

Tim Chiala, a co-owner of George Chiala Farms in the Santa Clara Valley, was blunt in his assessment of the drought:

He was a little more blunt in his Tweet this morning.

Given this, some were more blunt in their criticism of the reluctance to pursue this path.

Eric Turkewitz is even more blunt in stating his concern: «This one has the potential for some serious damage in a unique way to both client and attorney in personal injury cases.»

Christopher Parsons, a research associate at the Citizen Lab in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, is blunt in his description.

He was unguarded and blunt in his attacks, calling those in favor of solving global warming «flat out evil.»

Physicists, of all scientific disciplines, are among the most blunt in telling their colleagues precisely what type of organic matter they are full of.

Dyson is blunt in his criticism of climate models, mocking «the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models.»

Schaeffer's 2014 paper — which was very blunt in its warmings of the Permafrost Melt Feedback outputs using up much of the carbon budget tacitly adopted in Paris — looks highly understated in view of recent papers.

Su Wei, one of China's lead negotiators on climate, was blunt in demanding that rich countries must act much more decisively if less rich and poor countries are to go along with a new climate deal.

Stefan Rahmstorf, a German physicist and oceanographer who has long pressed for curbs in greenhouse gases and is a founding contributor to the Realclimate.org blog, was blunt in his piece:

His new paintings, which shockingly departed from his previous refinement, were figurative and strange — nightmarishly cartoonish in image, blunt in approach, and often charged with social consciousness.

This time, Nintendo was blunt in pointing to the close proximity of the release of Super Mario Galaxy 2 as the reason for the delay.

He's been kinda like this for a long time now, like back when Keiji Inafune left Capcom Kamiya was pretty blunt in saying «Inafune's a businessman, not a creator» as a way to tell people «the creative force behind Mega Man and other Capcom classics wasn't this one man, if anything the dude gets a lot of undeserved credit.»

It is interesting, since I'm generally used to seeing him be really blunt in an annoyed manner.

Opponents of the bill testified before the Committee, insisting they can not afford to meet the standards set by this bill. Ken Brandt, a lobbyist for the Pennsylvania Professional Dog Breeders Association was blunt in telling the committee the purpose of the bill was to shut down their businesses.

Congressman Garrett was blunt in his statements to the press: «These economic pressures inhibit key life events, like home - buying, starting a family, and worst of all, harnessing ideas and starting businesses.»

Heins was blunt in discussing the market right now.

Dylan was typically outspoken, and uncomfortably blunt in his opinions of me... which seems a bit ungrateful, all things considered.

Although the work lives in the landscape - full - of - eccentric - beings mode of painting, Gaiman — whose own latest master - stroke is the towering plethora of coverage he's able to bring to The Ocean at the End of the Lane — is refreshingly blunt in his assessment near the end of the article:

Freese's approach is even - handed, blunt in her descriptions of coal as a blessing and a curse.

She's blunt in her assessment of the rapid changes in the industry and that publishers never know what will be a hit or not.

For example, Winston was quite blunt in describing his experiences:

Teachers - union members were even more blunt in their opposition: «Let's be very clear and dispel any notion that the school board majority, representing more than $ 15 million in political donations from the charter lobby, is here in the best interest of our public schools,» charged United Teachers Los Angeles secretary Arlene Inouye.

When asked where he stood on his state's initiative to hold back third graders, educational psychologist David Berliner — the Regents Professor of Education at Arizona State University — was blunt in his assessment.

(Although Canada clearly loves the urban black culture he comes from, he is blunt in his opinion that certain parenting styles in that culture present obstacles to helping its kids.)

As the begrudging band of mates reforms behind their fearless leader, unable to share his romanticised, idealised vision of their adolescent larks, The World's End is blunt in its posturing of the past versus the present; more so, when the script introduces the minutiae of its sci - fi concept.

And Daniel also had to win over Niki himself, and admitted the forthright racer was always blunt in his feedback.

The only thing worth it was seeing emily blunt in action and playing a complete bitch

It's a remarkably bad scene, blunt in all the wrong ways, that really makes me question if McDonagh understood the women he was writing about at all.

Yet the irony here is that Seidl's most straightforward film plot wise is also the one that is the least blunt in showing its intentions.

In some parts, Touch is pleasantly moving and even tightly woven, until it becomes too blunt in its purposeful yanking of heartstrings.

The waiter comes to take your order and you notice your date is rather blunt in his communication; there's no «please», «thank you» or any other pleasantries.

The plan you're looking at moving to is almost spot on with Medhi's Stronglifts 5 × 5... maybe take a look at that and get an idea of the level of training you want to do — Medhi is quite blunt in his approach to everything, but the principles behind what he walks and talks are sound and he advocates proper form and the ability to lift a weight over trying to lift with your ego, at least.

Meyers was very blunt in his comments about the situation with the growing Hasidic community in Rockland County.

Politicians in and outside the mayor's race have been blunt in their assessment of Weiner's fitness to run city government.

During a «state of the city» address last Wednesday, Walsh was blunt in his assessment of Syracuse's fiscal state.

Mayors, borough presidents and other elected officials often were blunt in their requests for campaign cash and «loans,» according to the commission on government integrity.

«I'm going to be really clear and blunt in 2016: We have to be responsible for everything that's happened the last two years.

In the Bronx, Michael Blake, Assemblyman - elect of in the 79th District, was blunt in offering his assessment of the grand jury decision.

In fact, he was quite blunt in responding «no» when asked if the party was, as its leaders have claimed, cooperating in the probe.

And she vows to be blunt in her assessment of the issues.

Congressman Charles Rangel was similarly blunt in assessing the government's failure to adopt stricter laws that would keep guns off the streets.

«No one expected the acting president to be blunt in the way his representative at the event conveyed it to the public.

Before the hearing, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer was blunt in his message to Walmart: «It's not going to happen,» he said.

Mr. de Blasio and Ms. McCray were equally blunt in criticizing Mr. Loeb's Facebook post.

Speaking at a press conference to introduce his ministerial nominees for the ten regions, the President was blunt in admitting that things are not rosy as he would have wished to bring the kind of transformation he promised, assuring that ``... but I'm a firm believer in the statement that when times are tough, the tough get going.

His directness — almost blunt in comparison to some of his more loquaciously - skilled teammates — can and should be a virtue for a side that has a habit of becoming one - paced.

Garry Monk was blunt in an interview after the news broke: