Word: matter-of-fact
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...Cortés and Montezuma are walking, down by the docks. Little green flies fill the air. Corées and Montezuma are holding hands; from time to time one of them disengages a hand to brush away a fly." No byline is needed; the spooky confluence of matter-of-fact observation (those green flies) and dreamlike lunacy (the handholding strollers) identify the paragraph as Barthelme...
...perfectly understandable prejudice against work has prevailed ever since. Most work in the life of the world has been hard, but since it was grindingly inevitable, it hardly seemed worth complaining about very much. Work was simply the business of life, as matter-of-fact as sex and breathing. In recent years, however, the ancient discontent has grown elaborately articulate. The worker's usual old bitching has gone to college...
...schools, accusing those who oppose it of fostering a "counter-religion" that violates the Constitution and teaches that "there are places where God does not belong, where prayer no longer fits in." More fascinating than Reagan's twisted view of the separation of church and state is his matter-of-fact disdain for the related debate over the Supreme Court's jurisdiction in this area...
...even though Harvard succumbed, 5-2, for the first time since 1975 Princeton emitted a sigh of relief instead of a matter-of-fact acceptance following the head-to-head battle...
...movie with a new truck for the "Caravana," red-light-district-on-wheels, complete with a trio of dancing girls and a huge neon hand flashing the finger at three second intervals. Whether dancing or sizing up her latest admirer, Fariah displays a weary amusement and a matter-of-fact satisfaction in her own eroticism that reminds us strangely of an equatorial Wife of Bath, a figure of all womanhood. And young moderns will appreciate the Femme fatale's Cheilike pink cat's-eye sunglasses. In both these wandering gypsies, there is a touching mingling of the pathetic...