That kind of analysis is not creative, but I've grown to appreciate the linear, black-and-white, just-the-facts, quality of storytelling it offers.
The photographs' blunt, matter-of-fact quality makes them all the more surreal.
The brilliance of her performance lies in its matter of fact quality.
In fact, "quality control" -- the statistical analysis now used around the world as a method to ensure high-quality manufactured products -- was first applied by Bell Labs mathematicians.
Most often, though, there is no such subtext, and works involving rocks and colored leaves have the matter-of-fact quality of Minimal Art, whose point is often the revelation of the artistic process used in its making.
Numbers are pervasive in finance and beyond: share prices; price-earnings ratios (a key criterion for professional investors); bond ratings (which are not literally numbers, but have a quasi-numeric "hard fact" quality); school and hospital league tables; surgeons' success rates; university departments' Research Assessment scores.
The work of even the most aggressive and intrepid photojournalist often possesses an after-the-fact quality, for which we tend to be oddly grateful: we prefer a buffer between ourselves and the devastation, the blunt evidence of inconsolable tragedy, the corpse with open eyes.
52), which ended the first half, and in the first of his encores, a rendering of the Chopin Mazurka in C (Op. 24, No. 2) that had a matter-of-fact quality yet was phrased and accented with Mr. Moravec's characteristic freshness.
Algorithms have been developed using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) quality of life instrument to estimate utility weights for cost analyses.
It's their matter-of-fact quality that allows a level of acceptance to slip almost unnoticed through the side door.
In fact, quality of care only accounts for small variations in mortality and the quality improvement systems are a distal factor modifying quality of care [ 29].
