Sentences with phrase «blunt talk»

The FAITH Movement has never shied away from recognising problems: a look through the back editions of this magazine reveals plenty of blunt talk about challenges within the Church and in Western society, occasionally with a note of gloomy relish.

This was unusually blunt talk from a White House that until now has fastidiously avoided the phrase «global warming» and repeatedly expressed doubts about the clarity of the science underlying the theory that emissions from smokestacks and tailpipes were heating the atmosphere in ways that posed a threat.

This kind of blunt talk about popular programs is politically perilous.

Negotiators who have spent days or months trying to secure a contract will be understandably hesitant to jeopardise successful negotiation of the substantive terms with blunt talk about unpalatable topics like breach of contract, remedies and how and where the defaulter should be brought to justice etc, and many arbitration clauses are tacked on — often at 3 am — without much, if any, thought being given to the wisdom of selecting arbitration at all.

I thought I'd share some humorous and / or downright blunt talking points to use when a family member judges your choice to cloth diaper.

Romney wasn't alone in being on the receiving end of the usual blunt talk that Trump delivers.

It was blunt talk from a U.S. executive, considering how loath VW of America's senior staff has been to publicly criticize German management.

She is already fighting back with blunt talk, urging teachers nationwide to revolt against «stupid» education reforms and telling politicians to leave teaching to the professionals.

Yes, blunt talk can hurt, but the free flow of both criticism and praise is, according to career coach and former tech exec Kim Scott, «the single most important part of managing people.»

In contrast to this blunt talk was the doublespeak of Jets president Steve Gutman, who presides over the NFL's most dysfunctional front office.

But word about the blunt talk quickly spread.

Speaker of the House Brendan Sharkey offered some blunt talk on the state budget deficit Thursday.

«No, it doesn't scare me, because frankly, it gets back to his blunt talk.

The blunt talk comes from the only guest that matters.