Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roughhewn, still bear the sculptor's chisel marks. And they remain emphatically stonelike, with a sense of the prehistory mystery which man has long attributed to curiously shaped boulders and strange stone outcroppings. This gives an awesome touch to Wotruba's figures, as effective in their blunt massiveness as the matchstick-thin figures of France's Alberto Giacometti...
...figure is stout, her bust formidable, her manner blunt. Among the urbane Oxford and Cambridge tones of the House of Commons, her voice sounds rough and raucous as a Liverpool fishwife's. In the mannered cut-and-thrust of debate, her points are as emphatic as the slap of a wet cod across a face. Newspapers poke sly fun at her, other M.P.s snicker at her, county squires snort: "She's a disgrace to public life." But among her constituents in Liverpool's grimy dockland, Mrs. Bessie Braddock, M.P., is a beloved and admired champion...
...grating moment when the Apache becomes too obviously a mouthpiece in declaring that this hung-up age cannot exist without jazz, but it is easily absorbed into the whole. Corso's play does not reach for much, and is the better for it. Its humor and its design are blunt; it elicits spontaneous enthusiasm...
...beleaguered man sat in Freedom Palace, small, chunky, tan-tinted and surrounded by a few intimate possessions-a wooden crucifix, a picture of the Virgin, a slide projector, a gaudy spittoon, books entitled Social Justice and Thought of Gandhi. Before him on a shabby desk lay an ultimatum, a blunt threat to tear down the government of South Viet Nam. An odd procession passed in and out of the palace doors for hours on end to deal with the crisis-three of the man's brothers, one in the cloth of a Roman Catholic bishop; his beautiful, politics-minded...
...play often has stings; indeed, so much of it is harsh and blunt and bitter that intervals of financial conniving which challenge The Little Foxes for meanness have here almost an air of comic relief...