Word: matter-of-fact
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...books may feel that he says things that most Englishmen would like to hear, but which their own writers seldom point out. With a great gift for simplification, Maurois makes complex individuals seem transparent, reduces difficult and obscure periods in their lives, over which scholars still debate, to matter-of-fact and readily understandable situations. In Prophets and Poets he has written of nine English writers, beginning with Kipling and ending with Katherine Mansfield. In an attempt to reveal the underlying philosophy of their writing, he succeeds in skimming the surface of fierce English intellectual quarrels as if unaware...
...Were more "expansive" (not necessarily more verbose), more prone to illustrate from personal experience, less matter-of-fact...
Last week this rebellious Japanese lady, in the story of her life, seemed to look back upon her own varied activities with a mildly gratified air of astonishment, offered a book at once quaint and informative, packed with matter-of-fact political and social data and naïve little feminine disclosures...
Although Anne Morrow Lindbergh writes of romance and the reasons for the trip in a stilted, English-theme language, her accounts of the flight itself, of the people she met along the way, are matter-of-fact, good-natured, often amusing. Conscious of the patronizing attitude commonly felt about women who take part in masculine exploits, she resented it when female reporters asked her silly questions about clothing and lunches, was puzzled when the radio announcer, describing the takeoff, deliberately lied about the way she was dressed. She worked hard learning to operate the radio. Baffled by technical explanations...
Nowhere characterizing her husband, or writing at length about him, Anne Lindbergh tells a few anecdotes that reveal him as a matter-of-fact, friendly, laconic character. Unable to reach Nome before dark, the Lindberghs landed in a far lagoon on Seward Peninsula, anchored the plane, and slept. In the middle of the night they were awakened by guttural voices, discovered two boatloads of Eskimos beside the plane. "Hello," said the Eskimos, "we-hunt-duck." Taken aback, not knowing what manner of men his visitors were, Charles Lindbergh replied, "That's nice." Conversation lagged. To keep it going...