Sentence examples for sometimes blunt from inspiring English sources

Her feminism is sometimes blunt.

She collaborated with Icona Pop on the irresistible "I Love It," but her own songs are more elaborate, and sometimes blunt to point of profanity, in their denunciations of guys who tried to get away with too much.

He's sometimes blunt in unintended ways.

The law is a powerful, if sometimes blunt, instrument.

Politeness shouldn't be confused with true civility — a quality that includes civil engagement, and thus, sometimes, blunt words and arguments.

Ms. Warren, a driven, sometimes blunt 62-year-old grandmother, made her way from Norman, Okla., to a professorship at Harvard Law School.

A former deputy mayor, Peter Powers, was known for sometimes blunting Mr. Giuliani's rages.

The certainty of her pronouncements sometimes blunted her analysis, but it was unusual in a woman, and that made it exhilarating; her signature blend of coarseness and erudition made it more so.

For example, when analyzing studies attempting to determine whether stress leads to relapse to alcoholism (see the article by Thomas and colleagues in this edition, pp. 459 467), readers will observe that sometimes blunted hormonal responses are associated with increased relapse risk; whereas, in other instances, exaggerated hormonal responses predict the return to drinking.

Government policy is also sometimes too blunt an instrument to cope with the problems of such small communities: because the Clarences is part of a better-off ward, it has received less attention than it deserves.

Pay ratios had some attractions but were sometimes too blunt a tool given the different pay structures of various companies, he said, adding: "I want to focus on things which will actually make a difference".