Sentence examples for is bluntly not from inspiring English sources

Or providing there's not a situation which we feel is bluntly not acceptable, according to our values.

His approach to strategy was bluntly old-fashioned, not to say heavy-handed.

"Henceforward," wrote Australian official historian Lionel Wigmore, "the attitude of the leading thinkers in the Australian Army towards British assurances that an adequate fleet would be sent to Singapore at the critical time was (bluntly stated): 'We do not doubt that you are sincere in your beliefs but, frankly, we do not think you will be able to do it.

If it were bluntly explained, it would not fill a book.

Gong was bluntly informed that she was "not particularly beautiful or charming" and that "successful men couldn't possibly be interested" in her.

Solace by Nicci Gerrard 384pp, Penguin, £6.99 Raking the Ashes by Anne Fine 409pp, Bantam, £16.99 Innocence by Kathleen Tessaro 400pp, HarperCollins, £10 Exposure by Talitha Stevenson 416pp, Virago, £14.99 When women write cheerful, upbeat stuff about aspirational females out and about in the world, they are bluntly informed that it doesn't count as literary, it's just chick lit.

Although they found no evidence of deaths or "serious injury" — a term that their report did not define — they were bluntly critical of the recruiting process.

His personal life suggests a man who is, to put it bluntly, not very nice.

And if it fails and a feminist game makes it to market – as it occasionally does and will continue to do, regardless of any opponents – Gamergate attempts to strip that game of its video game status, variably claiming it is too short to be a game, too linear to be a game, too political to be a game or, most bluntly, not a true game at all.

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To put it bluntly, not much is at stake for most of the collection's leading men.