Yet the relentlessly cheerful, determined folksiness of the ill-assorted cast makes light of the story's psychologically dense dark side, entirely blunting the show's edginess.
The Polish brothers, in earlier films like Twin Falls Idaho and Northfork, have always placed wonderment above storytelling, and the availability of big stars and a reasonable special-effects budget has not entirely blunted their taste for odd, resonant images.
Such correction for the passive diffusion component is not necessary in the case of glucose uptake, which is almost entirely blunted by phloretin (Fig. 2d).
Only blunt, unsmiling posturing.
Though route one is the way he often favours, Whitehall is by no means an entirely a blunt instrument beating its way down the path of least resistance.
(One early classic was "Whores in This House," a 1992 track with lyrics consisting entirely of a blunt — and not necessarily censorious — declaration: "There's some whores in this house").
Indeed, Newcastle boss Alan Pardew's pre-match suggestion that he would welcome Nolan and Carroll back to St James Parkk looked entirely justified in a blunt attacking display in which striker Papiss Cisse and his half-time replacement Shola Ameobi were particularly ineffective.
Was the entertainment value of the American Idol audition shows entirely dependent on the blunt honesty and wry wit of Simon Cowell?
As a writer, Frisch was neither afraid of blunt symbolism nor entirely reliant on it, and the play has many curious subtleties involving issues of class, community and family.
Sex, drugs and heartbreak line the path to a sadder, wiser understanding of life, in which youthful rage and idealism are blunted but not entirely abandoned.
