Sentence examples for bluffly from inspiring English sources

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bluffly

adverb

In a bluff manner

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School spending per head in Alabama is already the lowest in the nation.In this section Soft money wins again Better, but no cigar The politics of trade When your tax is illegal Beauty and the blank Good scores, or else Bluffly does it To Cuba he will go Smoke and mirrors ReprintsA popular solution is not easy to find.

And there are very few signs that America's appetite for all those attractive imports is waning.In this section Soft money wins again Better, but no cigar The politics of trade When your tax is illegal Beauty and the blank Good scores, or else Bluffly does it To Cuba he will go Smoke and mirrors ReprintsPropelled by strong demand, imports rose 2.3% in August to a record $106 billion.

Next week, our correspondent travelling with the delegation will report how things turned out.In this section Soft money wins again Better, but no cigar The politics of trade When your tax is illegal Beauty and the blank Good scores, or else Bluffly does it To Cuba he will go Smoke and mirrors Reprints.

He seemed an ideal candidate: thick-skinned, determined, bluffly charming and a natural media performer.

Ignored, Maximianus then ordered an unsuccessful hunting-down of this bluffly popular naval commander, who, with the means to buy loyalty if necessary, withdrew the fleet into Britain and proclaimed himself the third emperor.

"I have to say, I didn't vote purely and simply because I forgot," he announced bluffly while lighting Farage's cigarette.

"Ah, aren't you flower enough!" she said and herded me toward the open door of his little room, announcing me bluffly.

The gruff but jolly Mr. Harrington, who's in grocery sales, remains unmoved, bluffly telling his wife she's not going to be tooling around town in a new car anytime soon.

Broadly depicting the hammy weaver, Nick Bottom, a robust, round-faced Robert Clohessy speaks bluffly in wiseguy accents that makes his "Pyramus and Thisbe" blustering as a thespian seem all the more amusing.

Where his Donovan is bluffly ingenuous and straightforward, Rylance's Russian spy Abel is a quietly voiced enigma, greeting the arresting officers in his chaotic Brooklyn apartment dressed in his underwear, asking meekly if he can put in his false teeth.

It is part of Lord's apocryphal history that Stephenson called together the 90 staff and bluffly and affably told them: "Maybe I'm talking out of turn, but why don't you take some exercise?" By the time he retired in 1993, he had won over many hearts as communicator, conciliator and organiser.

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