Sentence examples for told flatly from inspiring English sources

It's a powerful story told flatly, with performances ranging from the somnolent to the hammy.

In Colorado Springs, Ms. Ellis, who is bisexual, had been told flatly: You are going to hell.

The one time he omitted the picture, he got an interview, he said, only to be told flatly that the priesthood didn't accept "colored vocations".

Insurers could not, we were told, flatly turn down claims on the basis that a seatbelt was not being worn at the time.

Flying into the capital at the start of a quarterly review of the debt-choked economy, mission heads from the EU, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank were told flatly that mass firings were out of the question when unemployment had reached a European record of 27%.

We were told flatly that they had no idea.

Zardari, Ahsan told me flatly, "doesn't want independent judges.

"I'm assuming it's not going to work," he told Dr. Flaherty flatly.

When a rabbi told her, flatly, "Theater is wrong," she said, she was motivated to do something about it.

Cheney recalls that when he offered the Treasury job to O'Neill, O'Neill told him, flatly, no.

Lynch says Sweeney told him flatly: "It's not about you and Max Kennedy.