Sentences with phrase «more blunt»

He's also learned to be more blunt when assessing clients» needs.

In other words, they tend to be more blunt and straightforward.

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

Foreign media allied with the United States are much more blunt.

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.»

Dr. Richard Washington, of Oxford University is somewhat more blunt: «When the rains fail, people die.»

Others use a more blunt term: weather porn.

Podesta is even more blunt.

Or, to be more blunt, it shows beyond doubt that Australia is now a laggard on climate action.

Your answer is more clear than mine (probably because it is more blunt), so I merely write to confirm that you have explained the matter in accordance with my view.

Rep. Jay Inslee (D - WA) was even more blunt.

Banning rhetorical questions means I have to be more blunt there.

If you think Berry's rather bizarre claims overturns well established science you are rather more blunt a tool than I originally thought.

While some comments were tempered, others were more blunt, «There is nothing green about trucks,» you said.

Thanks to Alex Washburne for pointing out in more blunt terms what happens when the invisible hand becomes visible.

But perhaps because this is now my seventh year of addressing the General Assembly, I tend to be more blunt.

The core line couldn't be more blunt:

I feel would really help if politicans and scientists gave a more blunt, forceful and urgent assessment of the risks, but without stepping over into hysteria about the earth becoming like venus.

Their accrued gravitas as art made sometimes decades ago and even more the blunt educational instrument that is Abstract Expressionism, one of the first thing any school kid learns about modern art, weighs down the limber wrist and the long but light contemplation that comes with a repeated gesture, the Zen thoughtlessness that Motherwell made his own.

Michael Kimmelman, the Times's chief art critic, was even more blunt.

Whether he was basking in the glow of positive feedback or gritting his teeth through some of my more blunt critiques, he processed the information and it resonated in his work.

Deadpool's blade is sharp while the humor is noticeably more blunt.

Dead Rising 4 is a lot more blunt with its comedy.

With Kotaku, though, Smith is a lot more blunt: «We're not doing ranked PvP.»

Tucson councilman Steve Kozachik was more blunt, calling the standards «an absolute farce,» blasting the legislature — and the governor — for relying on that agency to ensure humane treatment of animals.

And he was more blunt with the Indo:

It is a somewhat more blunt tool in comparison to open - market operations, since it influences many financial institutions at the same time.

James McKellar, academic director of the Real Property Program at York University's Schulich School of Business, is even more blunt.

HUD has published a new Shopping For Your Home guide for consumers and it could not be more blunt when it comes to private - sector adjustable - rate mortgages.

Will McAleer, president of World Travel Protection Canada is more blunt.

[during ABNA I am more blunt — those authors often haven't published yet, or if they have, they've self - pubbed and can easily edit some.

Because I no longer work in - house, I can tell you everything I wish I could have been more blunt about when I was a publicist.

Ira Silverberg, at Sterling Lord, was more blunt about how uneventful Konrath's move was.

When asked what he thought of the idea of a flat royalty rate across formats, Robert Gottlieb, chairman of Trident Media Group, was more blunt.

As at the front, a more blunt bumper with a prominent black moulding enhances the car's racy looks.

There's more wheelspin now, a more pronounced rear bias, a more blunt invitation to kick out the tail and keep it there.

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.

The head of a major teachers union was more blunt.

That disagreement frames so much of the current debate in school reform, and we need more blunt, civil, and face - to - face discussion on this score.

So instead, they pile on more blunt melodrama involving Jonas» beloved Fiona (Odeya Rush) and his best friend Asher (Cameron Monaghan).

Actually, despite being about 10 times more blunt than the first one, this new minute - long ad for the upcoming 10 Cloverfield Lane is still effective.

Because Garnett isn't as visually stylish as many of the noir directors, «Postman» is a more blunt rendering than other essential noirs.

It's gruelling to see these young men turn on each other in progressively more blunt and bullying ways, yet there is an underlying sense of jet - black irony that makes the film extra compelling, as the roles of prisoner and guard, bully and victim, test subject and observer, shift and reverse amorphously throughout.

The acerbic, harassed Khrushchev organizes a coup against Beria, with the aid of the even more blunt Marshal Zhukov (Jason Isaacs) of the Soviet Army, and supervises the security chief's execution.

Fantasies about Western democracies fighting back against their murderous Middle Eastern enemies don't come much more blunt - force than this, with its eye - for - an - eye ethos summed up by its evil villain's belief that «vengeance must always be profound and absolute.»

Documentary winner TJ Martin, of the film Undefeated, took a rather more blunt approach, letting slip the phrase «fucking amazing» — though it was unclear whether Melissa Leo, last year's deliverer of the F - bomb and back this year as presenter, was responsible for the ultimate American television no - no via a sort of expletive - prone osmosis.

There are times, like this one, when Sutton's film can be a bit more blunt than I'd like — for example, the singer croons «Please don't take my sunshine away» as a man with a gun prowls the area — and even its title as a play on the Christopher Nolan film feels a bit too clever.

The film easily fits into Coppola's oeuvre and aesthetics, but I think that maybe at times it could have been more blunt and forceful with the more biting elements and moments.

Others are more blunt and come right out and ask if I would be open to sex.