Word: matter-of-fact
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...crisp, efficient manager who holds a law degree, Ogawa is matter-of-fact about the company's success. Her first rule of product development? "I always ask myself if I would use it." New projects include online perfume stores and a home-security system that automatically calls an owner's cell phone in case of a fire or break-in. "Everything is changing so fast," she says. "We have no idea what Index will be selling three years from now." Something for the ladies, certainly. --By Jim Frederick. Reported by Hanna Kite/Tokyo
...with all the surprises,” Erlien says. “I think Carolyn Turk is less the Pollyanna: ‘you’re going to love this, this is terrific,’ that Bobbie always did. She’s much more matter-of-fact and ‘here...
Occasionally, when you least expect it, an underlying seriousness emerges from the flow of prose, but the same matter-of-fact voice is as capable of profundity...
...Jean Pierre Bucyana was 17 when he took up a machete. After seven years in prison he looks frail and older than his years - and now he's alone. "I helped others kill. But subsequently, my whole family was killed by people seeking revenge," he says in a matter-of-fact way, as if it was the most ordinary thing to kill and then have your whole family killed in return. Perhaps because, at that time in Rwanda, it was. Killers like Bucyana and Uwize will soon come face to face with survivors like Nyirakamanzi and Murekatete, sharing the same...
Still, Newman, 77, projects a relaxed authority that downplays the drama's sentimentality and stiffens its philosophical spine. His now wispy body and white hair make him more grandfatherly than ever. But he comes across less as a sage or authorial god than as a matter-of-fact neighbor who just happens to have stuck around long enough to tell the story. It's in keeping with Wilder's paean to those mundane details of life that we take for granted--and that pass away all too fleetingly. "You know how it is," Newman says, leaping at the line...