Word: matter-of-fact
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...once a year he designs and builds a prim little conventional house just for the fun of it), Kahn considers the leaders in U.S. architecture to be Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Cret and Eliel Saarinen. About his own work as architect laureate to U.S. industry, he is modestly matter-of-fact. Says he: "Architecture is 90% business...
...Eyck and his northern followers painted not the imaginary, ideal world of Biblical legend, but the matter-of-fact scenes that they saw about them, picturing in almost superphotographic detail the chill landscapes, household furnishings, costumes and sharp-featured faces of their native Flanders...
...forty-five it was all over. The town was occupied, the defenders defeated, and the war finished." With these brisk, matter-of-fact words John Steinbeck begins his brisk, matter-of-fact account of the conquest of a nameless country, resembling Norway, by an invading force, resembling the Nazis. The Moon Is Down is Steinbeck's first important work of fiction since The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and the most resolute and dramatic piece of propaganda that has come out of World...
Marianne Moore's poetry is a small museum full of such devotedly matter-of-fact observations. In What Are Years are reindeer, ostriches, paperweights, pangolins, college students, paper nautiluses, quartz-crystal clocks, butterflies, Negroes, France, speech, patch-box inscriptions, triskelions and juniper boughs-a partial list. These things Moore treats not as subject matter but as object matter; and she sees in their essential structure object lessons about the Creation in which man finds himself...
...violence and hatred, passion and pain, fear and death, the show is going on. When the tone changes to one filled with lush romance, gentle coaxing and Charles Boyer's eyes-then it's the announcer. . . . But when the voice comes out cool and calm and matter-of-fact, with nothing in it but words-then I dash to the radio to turn it up and find out who's got Bengasi...