Sentences with phrase «even blunt»

I know that when I am shopping for something, for instance a car, I am very straight forward, even blunt, about what I want and how much I am willing to spend.

These usually result from planting, pivoting or even blunt trauma, which can cause overstretching of the ligaments, sometimes to the point of tearing.

An October 2016 article on the official microblog recruitment account of tech company Tencent was even blunter, quoting a male employee as saying, «The reason I joined Tencent originated from a primal impulse.

Iverson's attorney, James Ellenson, is even blunter.

Graeme Souness was even blunter and said that it was a concern that Theo Walcott had said after the match that the desire and intent from the team came about as a response to the midweek defeat by Olympiacos and he is right.

Nixon did offer an even blunter verbal weapon for doing that: comparing Cuomo to the big bully in the White House:

Del is even blunter: «You should do something else while you can,» he soberly tells Charley, after he sees him falling for the horse.

When it comes to the decision of having children, he's even blunter: «I liked screwing, and your mother's Catholic.»

Philomena, a devout Catholic, even blunts Martin's atheistic outrage at the Church and chooses to forgive the inhuman treatment she received, showing how anti-inflammatory the film's final message is.

Mr. Leavy - DeVale, at P.S. 257, was even blunter.

Kevin Anderson, former director (now deputy director) of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, which has quickly established itself as one of the U.K.'s premier climate research institutions, is even blunter; he says 4 degrees Celsius warming — 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit — is «incompatible with any reasonable characterization of an organized, equitable and civilized global community.»

He is even blunter, when talking about highly insulated homes (which most green homes are by definition):

Not exact matches

Companies that aim to gauge employee happiness and engagement through an annual survey — the blunt HR tool used in many corporate environments — may capture how a workforce feels on polling day, but they fail to document the dips and rises that occur throughout the year in response to hirings and firings, swings in the business cycle or even news events and weather.

As it turns out, the one - time haberdasher from Missouri was even more blunt in his private correspondence — a fact that Truman historian Monte Poen uncovers in his illuminating collection of the former president's letters.

Even if the United States struggles to win market share in its competition with cheaper piped gas from Russia, the availability of an alternative will blunt the impact if Russia cuts supplies off again, and reduce its ability to dictate long - term restrictive contracts with its customers, analysts said.

David Mulroney, a former ambassador to China, is even more blunt in assessing the government's ability to find the right balance with China.

Another respondent was even more blunt, stating, «Our choices are like hanging versus the electric chair; neither is that appealing.»

«But if you ask us, a weaker Canadian dollar and low rates remain critical ingredients when it comes to driving future growth — perhaps even more so considering the incoming president's vows to bolster American competitiveness and blunt access to the key US market.»

Lloyd, known as the «blunt master,» even rolled weed for Hernandez, Fee mentioned casually.

VMware President and COO Carl Eschenbach was even more blunt in his assessment of Amazon, whose public cloud offering — Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)-- is being embraced by developers and even lines of business frustrated with provisioning IT services from corporate IT departments.

To be even more blunt — investors should be revolting against it given their options.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, was even more blunt.

In fact, he has even launched a wildly successful podcast called The MFCEO Project where he shares his brutally blunt advice and mindset while teaching aspiring entrepreneurs and business leaders what it really takes to build something truly successful.

If you follow rapper Lecrae on social media, you'll know he's no stranger to blunt honesty and open discussions about social issues, spirituality and even criticism.

Frankly, not to be too blunt, but even the Trinity was probably originally The Father, the Mother and the Son and that got cut down to The Father, son, and Holy Ghost.

That is all true, but even after the glossings - over and bluntings of the text, it remains a scandal.

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....

Even when one states atheism in less blunt and offensive terms, can any purposeless, mindless, physiochemical mechanism, accidentally coming from nowhere and headed nowhither, explain anything like beautiful family life, superb music, or the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians?

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.

This blunt and provocative book, now a best seller, is meant to shake up what Manji calls mainstream Islam, to which she puts her honest questions about fundamentalist attitudes toward women, human rights, Jews, the U.S. and even the Qur» an.

Let me be blunt: Although the book contains an impressive catalog of difficult texts in Scripture (let's admit it... there are many), the author seems to only be aware about the most unsophisticated explanations of these texts, and even then, provides unsophisticated refutations.

Even then, a boycott requires extreme caution, because it is a blunt tool that may hurt innocent people and have many unforeseen consequences.

Erwin Schroedinger, a fellow physicist, was even more blunt than that.

Camille Paglia, the outspoken feminist, is even more blunt:

However, even if we wish to so devote some of our precious time and resources, we continue to be hit by the tax blade cutting into disposable income and cheap consumerism blunting the distinction between stone and bread or between, snake and fish.

If they can not even understand the blunt fact that these are considered moral wrongs by Christ's Church, how do you expect them to comprehend the complexity of Christ's Passion and redemptive suffering?

Markus Ferber, a Merkel ally from Bavaria and a member of the European Parliament, was even more blunt.

Please allow me to be blunt, but even my believing daughter and her husband who teaches physics, for whom I got this subscription, are relatively uninterested in the articles.

But even a down month is unlikely to blunt China's steady import growth, nor its lofty position as a bellwether for global dairy trade.

A blunt Liverpool attack failed to break down West Ham in a goalless FA Cup fourth - round match at Anfield on Saturday evening.

One campus official at the University of Redlands was even downright blunt: «You've managed it for 18 years,» he told parents.

As much as some people dislike Dr. Amy's tone, her blunt, unapologetic approach does seem to bring people by — even if it is just to gawk at how ebil we are, express hate, or try to «educate» us with a round of Homebirth Bingo.

Even by the alarmist standards of many product warnings, the labels on the backs of the football helmets are bracingly blunt: «No helmet system can protect you from serious brain and / or neck injuries including paralysis or death.

As for the reflux and settling issue, I've done a piece that should hopefully give you comfort regarding simply being there even if it doesn't help settle in the moment: http://evolutionaryparenting.com/my-baby-cries-too/ You can read in detail, but the stress response associated with pain or psychological stress which we assume to be present when crying is actually blunted when a child is being held and comforted, even if the crying doesn't stop.

And that doesn't blunt anyone's ability to either disagree or, even, agree with the Labour party in or out of power.

Earlier this evening, Democratic Assemblyman Rory Lancman went on Inside City Hall and discussed one of his opponents in a Queens congressional primary, Jeff Gottlieb, in very blunt terms.

Summing it up in blunt terms, Karas said, «If Mr. Smith had just said no to the scoundrel, which would have been so easy — «This is crazy, I'm not going to buy my way, even if I think I'm going to be the best mayor in the history of New York City, I'm not going to do it, I'm going to respect the process» — then we wouldn't be here.»

It was a reminder that the old Ms. Mark - Viverito — the blunt outsider who was once thought too corrosive to be elected speaker — had not entirely disappeared, even though a lack of controversy has characterized her tenure so far.

Len Fasano, the top Republican in the Senate, was even more blunt.

But Labour has blunted the electoral impact by not raising income tax rates, even cutting the basic rate by 1p to 22p in the pound.