Sentence examples for point-blank refused from inspiring English sources
"point-blank refused" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is used to emphasize that someone has refused something outright or without hesitation. For example, "My boss point-blank refused my request for a pay raise".
"I was trying to get him to revise last night, he point-blank refused".
At a party this week I met a nice woman who point-blank refused to believe I was me.
Another parent point-blank refused to accept visual evidence of her child's criminal behaviour, believing the teachers to be fraudsters instead.
People started mocking blogs, some point-blank refused to reveal their names (possibly while humming Land of Hope and Glory to themselves).
Several contributors to the roundtable had stories about university departments or clubs having point-blank refused to accept changed logos or crests.
Barcelona point-blank refused to appoint Jose Mourinho as coach before Pep Guardiola was confirmed as boss of the Blaugrana because they were afraid his methods with the would start unwanted fires around the club.
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).
Or if some new human-rights holocaust is raging while the rest of the world turns away, and a defiant majority of one section of the United States point-blank refuses to participate in unilateral American intervention — do you, as president, defer to that national minority?
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 know, I know, you don't read the reviews--believe me, there isn't a TV critic alive who wouldn't point-blank refuse to review the Emmys if he or she could.
Either be smothered in icky-pink specialness to the point where they point-blank refuse to take on the outside world's verdict that they're just a person.
