Sentence examples for somewhat blunt from inspiring English sources

The trouble is that the tool it uses to weight salaries is the purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rate, a somewhat blunt instrument.

That's where criticism proves a somewhat blunt instrument in describing Sebald's curious mix of travelogue, literary essay, philosophical reflection and fictive exploration.

His slightly inclined cursive, speedily written with a fairly narrow, somewhat blunt nib, was to inspire the printers' italic type, just as Poggio's hand led to their roman type.

The Germont was Željko Lučić, a baritone whom, in my evenings at the Met, I had thought of as a somewhat blunt singer, often with a bit of a burr in his voice.

They used the somewhat blunt instrument of feeding 1.5m English-language books into Ngram Viewer, a tool that catalogues phrase usage, in order to count the frequency that words were used.

His son, Ray Tim Kangg), has set up his father's hospital bed in the dining room, one of the play's somewhat blunt ironies, as Jung-Sok now refuses to eat.

But the impact of Mr. Romney's attack was somewhat blunted by distractions from prominent Republicans.

This somewhat blunts the installation's impact, because the guns themselves are potent phallic symbols.

If the effect is somewhat blunted here by reproduction and repetition, the original prints still have plenty of kick.

But it went on for another hour and a half, somewhat blunting the force of Mitt's attack.

However, as was also the case in the Denver suburbs, turnout was down from 2008 3,24949 votes tonight versus 4,071 four years ago — somewhat blunting the impact.