The phrase "a blunt attack on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a direct and unambiguous criticism or confrontation regarding a person, idea, or issue.
Example: "The article was a blunt attack on the government's handling of the crisis."
Alternatives: "a harsh criticism of" or "a direct assault on".
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.
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".
In Washington State, Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson, both Democrats, announced on Monday that they would file a lawsuit seeking to gut Mr. Trump's order, calling it a blunt attack on the Muslim faith that would damage businesses and individuals in the state.
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.
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.
After a day spent meeting Iraqi leaders and American military commanders, Mr. Obama seemed to have navigated one of the riskiest parts of a weeklong international trip without a noticeable hitch and to have gained a new opportunity to blunt attacks on his national security credentials by his Republican rival in the presidential race, Senator John McCain.
In the process Mr. Amper, who is known for his blunt attacks on foes, has become a public figure and the most instantly recognizable environmentalist on Long Island.
Her opposition to Keystone XL appeared intended to blunt attacks on Clinton from insurgent candidate Bernie Sanders, who is mounting a solid challenge against the frontrunner in Iowa and New Hampshire.
