Word: matter-of-fact
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...simple, moving book, it has little in common with most War literature in its dry ironic tone, its study of Sassoon's effort to free his mind of doubt and concentrate on the task of making himself a good officer for his men. Written with a matter-of-fact detachment, it occasionally rises to rhetorical heights, as when Sassoon describes the mental hospital, where the shell-shocked patients were cheerful and normal curing the days. But at night "they lost control and the hospital became sepulchral and oppressive with saturations of War experience. . . . One became conscious that the place...
...most laymen, the routine activities of the staff of a big hospital are shrouded in sanitary mystery. The stories concerning them are usually grim, sometimes Rabelaisian, seldom sensible. Last week the sensible, matter-of-fact autobiographical chronicle of a onetime nurse gave a good, clear picture of the day-to-day work and training involved. Written by the wife of Psychiatrist Smith Ely Jelliffe, For Dear Life is an unpretentious book, makes up in honesty what it lacks in literary finish...
...protesting against the cruelty of hunters, Gardner impatient at her squeamishness. With this symbolic incident as a beginning, I Am the Fox carefully retraces the steps in Selma s career that gave her a feeling of identification with the hunted, of hatred and fear of the pursuers. A matter-of-fact, occasionally amusing novel, I Am the Fox is the Atlantic Monthly's $10,000 prize novel the work of a 34-year-old Iowa teacher, her first full-length book. Between chapters devoted to Selma's early years her observations on the small-town marriages around...
...begins in a matter-of-fact way with a dry, ironic account of the christening of the hero, Ben, born into a family of clergymen. The ceremony is marred when a poor, ugly, distant relative called Miserable Sarah breaks in on the good-hearted soft-headed assemblage with words of cruel wisdom. Groaning heavily, she tells Ben that he has a thin skin "and a thin skin is easy scratched and easy tickled...Play the fool when you come to something you don't understand...If you must play games, choose the one you're good...
...Dead") Deal. It was with the earthy calm of his matter-of-fact peasant origin that millionaire Lawyer Pierre Laval opened his remarks upon The Deal...