Sentence examples for point-blank refuse from inspiring English sources

Did anyone point-blank refuse to talk to you?

But amid this trigger-happy cloud of cordite there was also a chill dude with a luxurious mullet and battered leather jacket who, despite being a freelance troubleshooter, would point-blank refuse to pick up a firearm.

As a cub reporter on Hot Press magazine in Dublin during the mid-90s, I vividly remember hailing a taxi to a post-pub house party in a Dublin suburb, only for the driver, a Hoops fan, to point-blank refuse the fare because our destination was the housing estate for which Rovers' ground had been sold to make way.

I have French friends who point-blank refuse to read Céline because of the antisemitism, but there is a strong tradition in France of not just indulging, but almost demanding bad behaviour and outrage from its writers (I refer you to Houellebecq, Gide, Cocteau, Colette, Genet and Baudelaire).

In pretty much any walk of life, it's rarely a good idea to point-blank refuse to do what your boss tells you to.

I know many in favour of independence who point-blank refuse to call the Executive the "Scottish Government" as it suggests that half of what must be achieved already is, and that it may be possible to have a truly Scottish Government within the Union.

"I was trying to get him to revise last night, he point-blank refused".

Cameron yesterday point-blank refused to accept the logic of what he claims to be doing, which is "defeating Isis".

At a party this week I met a nice woman who point-blank refused to believe I was me.

We have a number of online screening processes, but clients [in Northern Ireland] are point-blank refusing to use those systems.

People started mocking blogs, some point-blank refused to reveal their names (possibly while humming Land of Hope and Glory to themselves).