Word: matter-of-fact
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...THOSE who deny pleasure to themselves are all too ready to withhold it from others. The Discoverers is too matter-of-fact. We honor heroes by building myths in their memory; and myths, not facts, give us the passion and the will to be heroes. The passion of discovery shows most readily with the most exotic and most romantic figures, and passages about them are the most interesting in the book Ferdinand Magellan, who "with five barely seaworthy ships would face rougher seas, negotiate more treacherous passages, and find his way across a broader ocean" than any previous explorer, when...
...Wingfields imbibe a kind of emotional helium; only the guy wires of propriety keep them from floating into their darkest dreams. But with the exception of Bruce Davison's Tom, who nicely mixes wistfulness and cynicism, this Wingfield family is an chored to-sunk beneath-the matter-of-fact realities of Depression America...
...pretty skeptical about them last year. I didn't know what sort of thing they were going to do," he recalls adding, that the presentation was "as value neutral as any presentation of that sort could hope to be. They were so matter-of-fact that anyone would have felt absolutely stupid trying to cut up during...
...turns more serious when talking of her personal grief. "I was in a sort of period of shock for longer than I realized" after the assassination attempt, she says in a matter-of-fact tone. When that was wearing off, her father, Dr. Loyal Davis, to whom she was always close, became ill. She hugs herself with thin arms at the recollection: "I'd never had anyone close to me die. I'd never been with anybody when they died, certainly not anyone close. Then, I had to go tell my mother, which was probably the hardest thing...
...most eminent epidemiologists, who had been chosen by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to evaluate last year's nationwide tests of the Salk vaccine. For an hour and a half, Dr. Francis read his report in an even, matter-of-fact tone. The gist...