At the Paris climate talks, Maria Neira, director of the World Health Organisation's public health division, put it bluntly: "The real cost of fossil fuels is seen in your lungs".
Just as Creed's sculptural objects are bluntly, crassly real – a ball of paper, a lot of balloons – he moves words about with nervous, repetitive anxiety.
Put bluntly, the real and potential harms to public health by alcohol misuse are being insidiously cast aside by the industry players in their bid to pursue vested interests with the misleading claims of health benefits.
To put it more bluntly, there is a real possibility that for many of us a life undifferentiated by the contrasts of young and old — a life removed from the variety and novelty that physical change brings — might well be boring, which is surely as serious a Struldbruggian problem as physical impairment.
After Ted Cruz won Wisconsin, Congressman Grothman bluntly stated that the real purpose of Voter ID laws was to help power-hungry Republicans remain on top.
But the defense realized it needed a black face on the team, to put it bluntly, and Cochran (above in real life, with the real O.J). was sold when his wife found his weak spot.
An imminent departure was never a real possibility – Guardiola bluntly responded to one report by saying: "Marca lies" – but a summer move was.
Bush administration officials, in Washington and in Tokyo, bluntly warned this month that real growth will return to Japan's economy only with deregulation, privatization and a major banking cleanup.
Billy senses that beneath the joshing is real yearning, and when he bluntly challenges Richie to come clean and confess who and what he is, both are unsettled by the frank answer.
