Regardless, a team who initially felt blunt are now propelled by a sense of optimism.
But Ms. Rebeck's barbs often feel blunt, and the bifurcated plot, switching between Wes's world and Merv's, makes it hard for the director, Michael Mayer, to generate much comic energy.
A hammer and some nails feels crude and blunt compared to a pipette and a box of tips, but it's all rather liberating.
The way it handled this shift feels extraordinarily blunt, ham-handed and emotionally tone-deaf.
It was, we are left to feel, a blunt, unappeasable sense of truth that led Goya to shed conventional decorum and become the most expressionistic, daring, abstractifying visual artist prior to Impressionism, with the exception of the Englishman J. M. W. Turner.
Jude Law, in his best performance since Dickie Greenleaf felt the blunt end of Tom Ripley's oar, plays an architect in King's Cross, trying to transform the area but suffering break-ins at his swanky new office, a marital breakdown and a growing fancy for Bosnian refugee seamstress Juliette Binoche.
Even companies that you don't traditionally associate with the mortgage business from General Motors to General Electric and tax-prep jockeys like H&R Block –will feel the blunt force of this blow.
Then, I felt a blunt force against my eye, and everything went white.
Suddenly, I felt a blunt, hard object hit the top of my head.
In his final years in office, the administration has sought to repair relationships with countries that once felt the blunt end of American power.
