Sentence examples for overly blunt from inspiring English sources
He felt awkward and overly blunt compared with the softer American approach.
Don't all relationships involve an element of role-playing and restraint — refraining from being overly blunt when it just won't help?
Rather it's the ordinariness of the interlude, its everyday quality that makes it so good and points to what, at times, distinguishes "A Better Life" from the overly blunt social-issue tract it could have easily become.
Even so, Wednesday's events were a strangely typical day for Mr. LaHood, who has been known to jump the median line between refreshing straight talk and being overly blunt.
While the presence of Katrina's 6-year-old son brings up some overly blunt connections to Alex's childhood, this also permits a welcome revision of opinions of Alex formed earlier in "The Sleep-Over Artist".
Teddy, for example, may find everyday social interaction awkward — his conversations with Gabe (Liam Benzvi), the play's central character, are spackled with overly blunt questions — but he exudes sexual self-confidence online, where he engages in exhibitionistic live chats with various admirers.
As portrayed by Lily Knight with a New York accent and an overly blunt demeanor, this pint-size dynamo in a hard hat has a short fuse when it comes to slip-ups and slacking off.
It wasn't the "right forum" for this type of declaration, it was a possible indicator that "something is wrong" in the marriage, he should have just stuck to "I love you and adore you and you're perfect" -- basically whining that a major Hollywood star was uncomfortably honest about his relationship and said overly blunt things about marriage in one of the most public forums on the planet.
Lowry could be blunt, overly frank; he took pride in his plain-speaking, his dislike of pretension.
