Word: matter-of-fact
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...biggest surprise in the book is the durable quality of the writing of John Galsworthy. Placed alongside the other prizewinners, the story of Swithin Forsyte, from Caravan (1925), is fast, matter-of-fact and honestly funny...
...Threat. The commissioners were not panic-stricken; they were measured and matter-of-fact. But the U.S. was under definite threat, they said. They saw no hope that the United Nations would develop "in time" the authority to prevent another war. The threat, they reported, could be divided into two parts. The first was Phase I, which was the turbulent present, when the world at any moment could blunder into war. If war came in Phase I, it would come by accident, not from design. No potential enemy of the U.S. was yet prepared for war. The commissioners found...
Romantic Heroes. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were romantics, Jeffersonian idealists, enthusiastic, ardent, poetic, hopeful, trusting. They named the tributaries of the Jefferson River Philosophy, Wisdom and Philanthropy. But their men, the soldiers and hunters in the party, were down-to-earth, matter-of-fact characters. They liked to race ponies with the Indians, carouse with their squaws, dance square dances whenever they made camp...
Those of you who have had a chance to talk to businessmen home from Europe have undoubtedly benefited by their first-hand observations of the European scene, and have found that such a viewpoint provides a matter-of-fact, often illuminating postscript to the excellent reports of trained American journalists. A case in point is TIME's advertising director, Harry Phillips, who went to England, France, Belgium, Switzerland and The Netherlands to examine postwar business conditions there and to talk to exporters about advertising in TIME Inc.'s overseas editions. Some excerpts from his strictly personal report...
...talked him out of the title by whispering disconcerting things between punches. Benny's version: "He caught me over the eye with a left and I felt my knees going under me. I said, That was a good punch, Lew.' I said it in a friendly, matter-of-fact tone of voice and it put the fight on a different plane. Lew snarled, 'Never mind that stuff, come on and fight.' But I stuck out a restraining hand and said, 'No, Lew. That was really a good punch. It was all right.' Lew paused...