As China's foreign minister bluntly pointed out last year at a meeting with its South-East Asian neighbours: "China is a big country and other countries are small countries and that's just a fact".
Mr. Steiner became nationally known earlier in the decade when he bluntly pointed out that traditional schools of education were often hidebound and ill equipped to provide graduates who perform at a high level in the classroom.
Faced with the stupidity of the colonels in charge of the regime, Sisco abandoned any pretence of diplomacy and bluntly pointed out not only the strength of the Turkish military forces, but that the Soviet Union had also put 40,000 men on alert.
This was bluntly (starkly?) pointed out by Democratic California Representative Pete Snark... oh, excuse me, that's "Pete Stark" (I don't know how I could have gotten that confused), speaking to the opposition: "I understand when we have 50 groups supporting our bill and you only have one... it gets a little annoying.
"When you're dead, you don't know you're dead," a retired firefighter points out, "so what's the big thing really?" Yet a paramedic bluntly says, "I think anybody who says they're not afraid of death is kidding themselves".
Dowden chronicles the problems of colonialism and geography, but he also bluntly points the finger at wretched leadership.
Clive Saunders of Manchester University points out that we should see some variation in lightning activity based on the solar cycle that restricts cosmic ray access to the Earth, but none has been observed, while Martin Uman of the University of Florida bluntly describes the theory as "nonsense".
Shakespeare loved inserting the character of a fool into his theatre, as a way of being entertaining and pointing out bluntly certain truths that other characters of higher standing wouldn't reveal.
I'm sorry that this has to be pointed out so bluntly.
Knitting needles are long, made of a variety of materials, and bluntly pointed at one or both ends, sometimes with a knob at the end opposite the point.
