The phrase "blunt expression" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a direct, straightforward way of speaking without being tactful or sugarcoating. You can use it to describe someone's tone or choice of words in a sentence. Example: His blunt expression caused many people to take offense at his comments.
His was just the most blunt expression of a spreading concern.
That argument surprised me: I had expected a bland procedural defense — this was a blunt expression of fear.
That argument surprised me: I had expected a bland procedural defense this was a blunt expression of fear.
For these new entities, the land grab is both a blunt expression of power in a power vacuum as well as a crafty positioning for whatever comes next here, a theory at work around the city in different ways.
The blunt expression on Mike Moran's face reveals all but the details -- the man in the photograph is his brother, Battalion Chief John Moran, a highly decorated and much-admired firefighter who died on Sept. 11.
Many buildings symbolic of his power, including the Republican Palace that serves as the Iraqi equivalent of the White House, and a huge new palace named for his wife, Sajida, that has been the acme of his personal taste and a blunt expression of his personality cult, appeared from a drive around Baghdad to have been so severely damaged as to be uninhabitable, and possibly even unrepairable.
Yet these buildings are not simply blunt expressions of power.
Thrilled because those places and other blunt expressions of public accountability in the German capital for the nation's horrific past were a break from the ignored or euphemistic, happy-faced storytelling of the painful parts of U.S. history.
Even so, there is considerable skepticism in Washington and among United States military commanders about the value of the training, and the strains caused by the airstrikes have now brought into the open blunt expressions of dissatisfaction with the Pakistanis that officials had kept mostly private.
India Expresses Concern About China's Oil Activity India's prime minister warned that China had moved ahead in securing oil and natural gas supplies around the globe, the bluntest expression yet of energy worries among Indian leaders.
In short, football is both metaphor and the bluntest expression of American violence and rugged individualism.
