The phrase "a blunt attack" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a direct and unambiguous criticism or assault, often in a figurative sense.
Example: "The politician faced a blunt attack from the media regarding his controversial statements."
Alternatives: "a direct assault" or "a harsh criticism".
Instead, they had a blunt attack.
Finally, it is a blunt attack on Stiglitz's own profession, for transforming "scientific discipline" into "free-market capitalism's biggest cheerleader".
This is little different from ignorant Islamists who think the American government could be behind a blunt attack on their religion.
The disclosure is refreshingly direct, and at times on the album -- in the brooding title track, and in "The Rat," a blunt attack -- so is the music.
Alex Salmond has accused anti-independence campaigners of using "destructive rhetoric" as he launched a blunt attack on George Osborne and José Manuel Barroso, the European commission president.
The first story did a much better job of nailing the "badly timed" aspect of the story, with its sentence: "So, on Tuesday evening, Mr. Romney, according to his staff, signed off on a blunt attack on a statement issued earlier in the day – before the first protests had happened – by the American Embassy in Cairo".
Indeed, Newcastle boss Alan Pardew's pre-match suggestion that he would welcome Nolan and Carroll back to St James Parkk looked entirely justified in a blunt attacking display in which striker Papiss Cisse and his half-time replacement Shola Ameobi were particularly ineffective.
Yet, what had been assumed to be teething problems – the laborious build-up, blunt attack and a surprisingly porous defence – actually proved a case of terminal decline.
The Reds are determined to sign Teixeira, identified by Jurgen Klopp as an answer to his side's blunt attack, but have had two bids rejected this month.
The Americans will try to defend against a blunt England attack, spearheaded by Wayne Rooney and featuring a number of midfield players with scoring punch.
It reaffirmed the image of Mr. Roh as a liberal president whose efforts for greater reconciliation with North Korea and whose blunt attack on his conservative enemies at home and United States policy on the Korean Peninsula had thrilled young liberals but antagonized older conservatives.
