Word: blunts
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...also does not shy away from jumping to conclusions, making daring statements, and passing blunt judgments, which make this book refreshing and interesting. The chapter “Pros and Cons” is the perfect illustration of the clear line in Bunuel’s mind between “good and bad, right and wrong, beautiful and ugly...
...Gates was equally blunt in responding. "No, sir," he said simply...
...Gates later hedged on some of his blunt opening words. After asserting that the U.S. is not winning the war, he added that U.S. forces are not necessarily losing. And after watching TV news accounts of his jarring opening answer during a lunch break, Gates returned in the afternoon with a hasty caveat that the soldiers on the ground in Iraq have won every individual battle they've fought. His no-win comment, he maintained, "pertains to the situation in Iraq as a whole...
...that Colbert chose to speak mostly out of character. Jarrett A. Zafran ’09 said the interview was “amazing” and that Colbert “had good answers about the nature of his job.” Colbert had been very blunt about what that nature was. “I don’t perceive my role as a newsman at all,” he said during the interview. “I’m a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings...
What exactly can President Bush expect as a result of his White House meeting Monday with Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, the Iraqi Shi'ite leader? The blunt answer: probably not much more than came out of his discussion last week with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. If the President is hoping al-Hakim will be any more favorably inclined toward U.S. interests than the Prime Minister is, Bush is in for frustrating time. A hardline Islamist, Al-Hakim has frequently given fiery anti-American speeches, denouncing U.S. policies in Iraq, Lebanon and Israel...