Sentences with phrase «blunt statements»

At some point, and I suspect this is where the author of this manifesto is coming from, you have to resort to more direct and blunt statements.

Mertesacker is making a habit of coming out post-match and saying the blunt statements fans want to hear when the team loses, but his leadership in the heat of the battle is nowhere to be seen.

Cargas: In No More Strangers you say that «we need accurately blunt statements from our leaders.»

The Chinese Embassy in the United States issued a blunt statement, saying that «China does not want a trade war with anyone.

(Acts 17:24) He reasoned with the Greeks, helping them to draw a logical conclusion (Acts 17:29), rather than making a blank or blunt statement.

In a much less blunt statement, which nevertheless is not so clear, the student is encouraged to find the kind of profession to which he can give himself wholeheartedly from internal and not external motivation.

Others were annoyed because they regarded this blunt statement as a frantic oversimplification of Christian theology, a retreat into pre-enlightenment piety.

1 would suppose that your whole life is an attempt to be an accurately blunt statement.

You won't find such a blunt statement in today's report by a nine - member panel created in 2007 to look at faculty race and diversity issues.

There were insults about people's appearances — like the blunt statement that «Tom Hiddleston is so fucking ugly why is no one acknowledging this.»

This basic, blunt statement would hold true through the decades, while researchers repeatedly examined statistics and conducted research reviews and in - depth interviews to test something sociologists call «perpetuation theory.»

It's a blunt statement that's backed up by its smooth, quiet, and comfortable ride, and its roomy and technologically - well - appointed interior.

Waxman's blunt statement that the goal of cap and trade is to raise energy prices was deeply off - message for green groups, which have long insisted that energy efficiency and conservation would prevent energy prices from rising.

Such a blunt statement initiating your reply shows your own incredulity, in a slightly cooler style.»

Whether it does die may depend on whether some kind of «courtesy» introduction is thought needed to soften the rather blunt statement of fact or rule that follows it.

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It's that kind of blunt, shamelessly greedy statement that can seem like some sort of unvarnished truth — masculine worth reduced to a mere dollar figure.

He denied interview requests — most notably to «60 Minutes» — blunting his critics with well - worded social media updates and statements.

Although I was directly blunt with him concerning the perversions of my words and told him his statement was a lie, I refrained from using any profanity so there should be no reason for him to not allow my comment.

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.

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.

The charge that Spitzer is going to the mat for the fallen Hevesi may be based on statements made in a debate that took place a month ago, and they're somewhat blunted now that Spitzer has dropped his endorsement of Hevesi.

They may send a specific statement being blunt about their desire to break off relations.

Let's be blunt and speak the truth here: the emphasis in that statement should be «appear.»

Even the movie's sole venture into the moral morass, in which Keller becomes the exact type of person that he most fears has his daughter, turns out to be a requirement for the movie's blunt thematic concern — that those wronged by the ills of others can and, in the wrongheaded statement of a character late in the movie (a really strained motive behind the crime), will perpetrate evil of their own.

However, the statement didn't have the veil of courtesy that most official releases are covered with and was particularly blunt.

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.»

Hughes would certainly recognize her own sensibility in Oldenburg's 1961 manifesto, «I Am for an Art», which contains the statement: I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.

It would be wise not to answer too quickly: Martinez has a history of hanging his work on blunt first - person statements that get more ambiguous the closer you look at them.

Her comments followed Jude Law's statement before announcing the winner, accusing the government of having a policy of «cultural vandalism,» adding: «We are blunting our leading edge in the arts.»

These blunt, muscular statements, which delve into the expressive potential of household items, link up with Wagner's later time - based works (exposed to and eroded by the elements) in their contemplation of transience and stability.

This is how Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain described the climate policy challenge in 2005 and, if anything, his statement is more germane now given prospects for prolonged international financial ills: «The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.»

They particularly disliked the blunt and colorful statements, inevitably imprecise, that were necessary to catch the public's ear.

These few statements are so blunt and vague, with minimal details.

Now is the time for a blunt «what does success look like,» a simple «Done» statement.

In Lennig v. CRST, however, Brian Panish used his opening statement to blunt video surveillance... Read More

Only two of the manufacturers listed, HTC and Motorola, actually responded, but their statements are blunt and absolute.

If you're worried about sounding boastful or blunt, backing up every statement with solid examples will diffuse that.

While unfortunately there's no guarantee that your partner will hear you as drugs and alcohol blunt a spouse's capacity for empathy, these sorts of statements will be more likely to elicit emotional connection than others.