"flat statement" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe a statement that is simple, direct, and lacking emotion or emphasis. Example: She made a flat statement, "I will not be attending the party."
6 All that remains to be considered is the flat statement that Spinelli was 'known' to the FBI and others as a gambler.
For every sentence that hits the rich cadences of circus speak, there is a line that reads like a flat statement of performativity.
Yet, for Welty, the novel is not an apolitical or morally neutral genre: "Indeed, we are more aware of [the novelist's] moral convictions through a novel than any flat statement of belief from him could make us".
There's no question that a vote against a flat statement that climate change is real could have been problematic for candidates down the road -- especially for those various Republican senators quietly preparing for the big election in 2016.
He is 21, and though outdoor scenes of him coaching young baseball players reflect his concern for others, nothing but a flat statement establishes him as a student working toward a degree at Queensboro Community College.
The parents were happy to learn that she was not only a member of a Greek-letter sorority and an officer in several campus organizations, but also, according to a flat statement in the bulletin, Proctor for Western Civilization.
The facts Ross liked best took the form of flat statements, preferably impersonal.
Comey's prepared testimony did include that comment from Trump about finding out if others were involved — which, of course, runs contrary to Trump's flat statements in the past that there was no collusion.
His flat statements on the Roma have drawn the ire of people on the left, who had expected that a socialist government would take a more lenient approach toward the minority, many of whom live in shantytowns on the edges of France's large cities.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg called press reports to the contrary "outrageous". The flat statements, not to mention the indignation, however, contrasted sharply with a more insinuated, and distinctly consensual, picture that has begun to emerge of the relationship between the NSA and the Internet companies.
Ambivalent subtleties and poetic analogies may be domain to both music and language, but flat statements that can either be true or false are native to the word alone.
