She was always matter-of-fact when she talked about trying to kill herself — it felt, she said, like telling a story about somebody else.
He was always matter-of-fact about his illegal activities, and I realized that this was not just teenage boasting to provoke an authority figure.
The amount of the discount and the duration of the sales were always matters of careful negotiation with the brands, because if customers become too accustomed to discounts they will balk at paying full price.
Analogies are always matters of degree, and the degrees of the qualities involved in the design argument aren't capable of exact measurement.
In particular, mere associations are not always matters of meaning: someone might regularly associate bachelors with being unharried, but this wouldn't therefore seriously be a part of the meaning of "bachelor" ("a harried bachelor" is not contradictory).
And over time I came to understand that these victims' choices are not always matters of strength, will, or resolve that there were other hurdles in the way.
Their accomplishment reminds us that gender, like race, also always matters, regardless of political philosophy.
Fischer returned to a favorite theme: that homosexual behavior is "always, always, always a matter of choice".
The pain of others always matters.
Parents' emails, although always marked "urgent", aren't always a matter of life and death.
