Word: matter-of-fact
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...matter-of-fact attitude toward her mastectomy saved lives by bringing breast cancer out of the shadows into the light of public discussion and understanding. WE LOVE BETTY placards sparkle in every crowd the President draws, and audiences break into applause at the mention of her name...
Reagan proposes abolishing the federal role in welfare, education, Medicaid and other essential services. The assumption that these services can be effectively provided by state and local governments is simplistic. The matter-of-fact treatment of the decrease of programs and loss of jobs is criminal...
...bright enough to realize that a book like this was bound to make money. At the time the idea came to them they were, as Anne says, "starving free-lancers" who were doing "you know, nice, normal pieces for The New York Times, Newsweek." And Anne is very matter-of-fact about why they chose to interview celebrities whose names would attract attention, rather than just the man on the street: "Very simple reason," she shrugs, "You gotta survive, when you're freelancing...
SOMEHOW, though, Kosinski's early novels achieved a startling intensity of expression. The horrors witnessed by a child refugee in the villages of a malign, warravaged Eastern Europe in The Painted Bird take on an added dimension in its clinical, matter-of-fact narratives...
...Northern Ireland, where killing has become almost matter-of-fact, the bloodshed, meanwhile, continued to mount, taking the lives of 20 people in only one week. In six years of fighting, 1,308 have been killed in Northern Ireland. The most outrageous incident occurred in south Armagh. While elderly members of a Protestant Orange lodge were attending their monthly meeting at the village hall, two masked men crashed through the door and sprayed the room with fire from automatic rifles. Five were killed by the gunmen, who belonged to a group thought to have close connections to the IRA Proves...