Word: matter-of-fact
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There was no flutter in Harry Truman's matter-of-fact voice as he read the message from Tokyo...
...Indian leaders who were not in jail the Viceroy engaged in earnest discussions. But most of the time he listened. With the jailed political prisoners he carried on a correspondence marked by understanding and humanity. Indians accustomed to word-jugglery and nebulous formulas noted with surprise his crisp, matter-of-fact candor. He impressed them as a disciplined, cultured administrator sympathetic to Indian aspirations, less concerned with his office than with Indian good will. To Gandhi (then in jail) he wrote: "I am in entire accord with that aim [Indian self-government] and only seek the best means to implement...
...many G.I.s, particularly those with disfiguring battle wounds, the war will not be over until civilians learn to be matter-of-fact about them. The networks tackled the problem months ago. This week, with the War Department's demobilization plan pointing up the issue anew, radio is deep in the groove...
...first Canadian artists were servants of the French Catholic Church, and their painting never strayed from portraiture and religious subjects. After the French surrendered Canada to the British in 1760, matter-of-fact British colonials and their wives introduced English draughtsmanship. Towns and landscapes began to be painted as simple reports on life in a new colony...
...side by side, made a striking contrast. British portraiture, leaning heavily on plumes, misty laces and shimmering silks, set out to romanticize the subject and present him in a softly flattering light as a person of distinction. The American who sat for his portrait often got a blunt, matter-of-fact estimate of his character from a social equal...