While some dishes communicated blunt down-home goodness, others were assembled or presented in intricate, precise fashions that sent a much more nuanced message and asked you to summon a much less freewheeling mood.
It is a gutsy, raunchy, rough, blunt, down-to-earth (or mud) novel in which little is sacred.
Hence, the reduction of GM3 may result from a synergy of a lack of sialic acid and a blunt down-regulation of ST3Gal5.
The allegation that Dowd offered two key witnesses in the Russia investigation a legal safety net comes amid Mueller's increasing focus on whether the president obstructed justice by seeking to blunt or shut down the inquiry.
This is because characters whose feelings are supposed to be at stake are blunted, dumbed-down caricatures of notional human beings, rather than sharply etched epitomes of human behavior.
Her brother, Andy, is blunt and down to earth.
The traditional advice for new legislators is blunt: "Sit down and shut up".
In a blunt dressing down, Russia's Defense Minister told the top United States military commander today that Moscow had been misled over the timing of NATO's air exercises in the Balkans.
This commercial, like some of the Windows tablet tv spots, is rather blunt, right down to a mocking tone of the voice-over narrator.
The menu is stripped down and blunt as a fist: "Pig Cheeks, Cider & Turnips" it informs you, shortly, "Duck Confit, Beans, Trotters".
