Sentence examples for bluntly reversed from inspiring English sources
Faced with Japanese demands for an explanation of the disappearance of 11 of its citizens in the late 1970's, the North Korean leader bluntly reversed a long tradition of angry denial, and apologized for what he acknowledged were official kidnappings.
Put bluntly, this policy reversed the country's decades of economic stagnation due to the failure of the Soviet model of economic management, and subsequently the collapse of Eastern European countries which had previously been the main source of economic aid (Edwards & Phan, 2008).
To put it bluntly, the roles are reversed.
The government in Seoul bluntly refused his captors' demands to reverse its plan to send some 3,000 additional soldiers to the country.
For what incensed Ghostbusters fanatics, it seemed, was Feig's idea to reverse the genders of the ghostbusting quartet – a decision whose politics his film tackles bluntly and frequently, without sacrificing laughs for sermonising.
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.
Thus, so the called "reverse course" by the SCAP took place more bluntly in Japan (Cumings 1993 34-633).
Reviews were bluntly critical.
The Republicans say bluntly yes.
"They failed," he said bluntly.
