In "Barbarians at the Gate," the book about the legendary deal, Mr. Waters is described as "an ex-Vietnam helicopter pilot who still had an air of the military," but whose disciplined persona was blunted by an "easygoing manner, forthright attitude".
Desmond may view potential volatility as a worthwhile risk when Keane might impose a blunt but elitist attitude on the club and redraw its horizons.
The computer would control the re-entry and all the crew had to do was put the spacecraft in the correct attitude, blunt end forward.
Utah voters are fundamentally conservative, he added, but perhaps more importantly, "Utah is nice" and voters are turned off by Trump's blunt style and attitude.
Their favorite aspect of Trump was his "attitude", the blunt and forthright way he talks.
In another blunt reproach to entrenched attitudes, she admitted that constituency selection committees seemed to prefer candidates they would "be happy to have a drink with on a Sunday morning" - the negation of the meritocracy the party claimed to espouse.
"In the middle part of my career, the rookies who came up -- you were just so sick and tired of their attitude, to be blunt about it.
That attitude is a blunt manifestation of a mind-set that has led adults to become ever more involved in children's social lives in recent years.
The crudely endearing charms of Lauper's book, a memoir of her unglamorous outer-borough upbringing and not entirely glamorous life since MTV made her a pop star in the 1980s, are its unpretentious attitude and its blunt, brassy voice.
Neve McIntosh as Madame Vastra is emerging as a true star of the show, and she gets fleshed out, with her blunt condemnation of Clara's attitude and her lustful manipulation of Jenny.
