Word: matter-of-fact
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...spoofs about radio deserve a mild hand. Wally Cox, a young monologuist who writes his own stuff, deserves a very loud cheer. By means of a quiet Will-Rogersish manner and a sharp Ring-Lardnerish pen, he creates a couple of monstrously matter-of-fact characters that are both hilarious and appalling...
There was a long pause and then a calm, matter-of-fact answer: "All right...
...comes and takes her home, while Richard adventures on through the South. As social history, The Big Cage is sometimes authentic, sometimes unconvincing. As fiction it is notable mainly for Lowry's ability to take sentimental and overworked material and brighten it with a calm and matter-of-fact humor...
...know yet . . ." said Unruh, in a matter-of-fact voice, "but it looks like a pretty good score." Why are you killing people? "I don't know," he said. "I can't answer that yet-I'm too busy. I'll have to talk to you later...
White Heat (Warner) is in the hurtling tabloid tradition of the gangster movies of the '30s, but its matter-of-fact violence is a new, postwar style. Brilliantly directed by Raoul (Roaring Twenties) Walsh, an old master of cinema hoodlumism, it returns a more subtle James Cagney to the kind of thug role that made him famous...