Others bluntly expressed the view that Lincoln was rather boring.
The irony is that the prince has in this case bluntly expressed the government's view, but has said things ministers can't or won't dare to.
Trevor Nunn's inspired idea was to transplant the play to the 1930's, when World War II was looming and anti-Semitism was bluntly expressed.
It comes in three bluntly expressed parts.First, Mr Putin has no illusions about reversing Russia's imperial decline; the burdens of empire helped drag it down.
His objectives seem sensible, comprehensive and bluntly expressed, characteristics that apply to too few of the reforms carried out in the biggest financial markets.
Their dutiful but fidgety optimism was bluntly expressed in a conversation I had with Rep. Raúl Labrador of Idaho, a freshman, an outspoken Tea Party star and, like Romney, a Mormon.
Gone are the days when there was tension between the pair, most notably in the Ryder Cup two years ago when McIlroy bluntly expressed his desire to play the fallen icon.
But it was the treasury secretary, Paul H. O'Neill, who most bluntly expressed continuing American perplexity over Mr. da Silva in a speech today in Greenville, S.C. "I'm glad the uncertainty is over, and from what I know of Lula, I think they are going to be O.K.," Mr. O'Neill said.
The documentary's most intriguing element is the doubt, bluntly expressed, that some on the repeal side have about the wisdom of taking a stand that will inevitably be perceived as antigay, and about the tactics being used by Schubert-Flint Public Affairs, the outside consultants directing their efforts.
Hours earlier, Representative Steve Israel of New York, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, spoke to Mr. Weiner by phone, bluntly expressing frustration that Mr. Weiner's political standing was deteriorating as new and more embarrassing details of his online relationships were emerging.
Communications director Dan Pfieffer later put it more bluntly, expressing unhappiness with the "inordinate focus on bad polling" by the media and also in the routine misinterpretation of sampling noise in the Gallup Daily poll.
