Word: blunt
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...scientific information about AIDS or predictions about its spread. What distinguished them from previous pronouncements was the authority of their authors (the National Academy of Sciences was chartered by Congress in 1863 as a private body to give advice to the Federal Government), their uncompromisingly blunt language and the urgent tone of their recommendations. Said David Baltimore, cochairman of the NAS committee, at a Washington press conference: "This is a national health crisis . . . We are quite honestly frightened about the prospects...
...tremendous responsibility. How can the reviewer force his reader to understand that A Summons to Memphis, this sharply perceptive, humorous novel of only 200 pages, should be read at once? How can he demand, "Just stop what you're doing right now and read this book," without seeming either blunt or irrelevant...
...foreword to his report on AIDS, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop has some blunt words of advice for Americans: "If you are participating in activities that could expose you to the AIDS virus, this report could save your life." The Surgeon General is not exaggerating, as the 36-page booklet confirms in most explicit terms. Some pertinent excerpts...
...polished: Morvan's scene of the aftermath of a car bomb, Yaghobzadeh's shot of two men bearing the victim of heavy shelling. For photographers working in the rubble of failed diplomacy, the most decent impulse is to use the camera as a branding iron -- the right pictures are blunt, scorching and indelible. That they can also look raw and haphazard is merely proof that style can echo the facts. The coherent images of classic photojournalism carry an implied message, namely that life is cogent even in the midst of catastrophe; that while events may be terrible, the human dilemma...
...really?" I say, edging toward the nearest blunt instrument, "I hadn't heard that...