Sentence examples for blunt directness from inspiring English sources
You will hear praise for Mr. Codey's blunt directness, a stark contrast with Mr. McGreevey's eagerness to please.
Winter's punishments fall with blunt directness: short days, frigid nights, the blizzard that brings our activities to a halt.
Where Hodges's generation worked hard to ingratiate themselves with the American mainstream, today's athletes possess a relative freedom when it comes to speaking their minds, taking risky political stands, or acting with a kind of blunt directness.
The songs have a plainspoken directness that is wonderfully effective.
It notes that while brusque "emphasizes rude abruptness," gruff "implies roughness or surliness but does not necessarily suggest rudeness," and blunt "stresses utter frankness and usually a disconcerting directness".
He was able to do so from the deep-lying midfield berth Van Gaal has recently given him, with the reason for his move from centre-forward being the arrival and emergence of Martial and Marcus Rashford: each possesses serious pace and a directness Rooney once had but which is now blunted.
He is blunt in a way that is rare for American officials, and his directness often hits just the right notes when he makes his case to Congress, journalists or others who help shape public opinion.
The directness of expression in folk or peasant art lies behind the blunt simplicity in some of his suprematist pictures.
The reason for such directness?
Also her legendary directness.
