Noise, with its mix of journalistic bluntness and highly conceptualized
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Sometimes bluntness was the best way to sell a movie.
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"One can't falsify just anything," Derrida wrote, with unaccustomed bluntness.
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And China is responding with some bluntness of its own.
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Feared by King as reckless, and despised for his bluntness.
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"Because he was a man," Lou explains, with characteristic bluntness.
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They believed fervently that Trump's bluntness meant he was unusually sincere.
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More recently, Mr Varadkar's bluntness has caused problems for Mr Kenny.
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His supporters embrace his bluntness and wit, controversial statements and all.
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His verbal bluntness involves risks that few candidates would dare take.
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The track amps up both bluntness and artifice for the band.
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He said with an unusual bluntness that Augustus had gone downhill.
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Displaying an uncharacteristic bluntness in dealings with an American president, Mrs.
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But he had another advantage I missed in this area: his bluntness.
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But racism is another matter, something that goes beyond a supposed bluntness.
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His bluntness plays well with folks who are weary of political hedging.
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He stood out from his fellow dictators, above all, for his bluntness.
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In her early stand-up, she talked about her marriage with bluntness.
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In the early hours of the investigation, Nagy spoke with astonishing bluntness.
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Some artists approach the unvarnished bluntness of the 28 Biennial, with complexity.
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Aina's bluntness and humor endear her to viewers who love her straight talk.
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And so this kind of bluntness isn't really seen externally from Facebook executives.
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Howard seemed visibly tickled by his own bluntness and let out a laugh.
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Kelly, who has earned a reputation for bluntness, didn't wait long to respond.
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While rare in its bluntness, Mr. Sisi's assessment is widely shared by Egyptians.
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There is a bluntness about being DTF, on the album's lead single "LMK".
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Certainly, some of Trump's right-wing supporters appreciate his bluntness about Islamic extremists.
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The sexual frankness of these heroines goes hand in hand with their general bluntness.
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I started to appreciate my weird sense of humor, my bluntness, my observational tendencies.
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Given where American-Iranian relations stand, there is not much downside to this bluntness.
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Mr. Wang's bluntness made him one of the most polarizing figures in Chinese Christianity.
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But, where his bluntness would normally have prompted laughter, there was only awkward silence.
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But I'll never be part of that club, and was startled by his bluntness.
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But that they do, and how they are, is blindsiding in its brutality and bluntness.
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To his admirers, Judge Ellis's bluntness and impatience are indicative of a razor-sharp mind.
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So the bluntness of "a passenger just jumped in front of the train" did something.
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President Truman expressed outright dislike and disdain for the socialist movement with his usual bluntness.
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But the bluntness and unapologetic crudity with which he tells his story are tremendously appealing.
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Could Neil take Dru around his work colleagues, who were not ready for her bluntness?
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However, the bluntness by which both CEO answered those questions suggest that they truly aren't concerned.
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It's comedy that's often confrontational, cynical and caustic, but it's no less hysterical for its bluntness.
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Chomsky himself feels that Trump's bluntness about America's criminal foreign policy has only a limited value.
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The governor, the grandson of a tin miner from Guangzhou, China, has a reputation for bluntness.
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His message is often heavily seasoned with expletives, and his bluntness has drawn attention and criticism.
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Because of the author's honesty, her grit, her bluntness and her respect for sheer hard work.
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In person Mr Sparks was direct to the point of bluntness, his eyes readily bulging with indignation.
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Seemingly feeding off of Cuban's bluntness Friday, Clinton went further than she typically goes in criticizing Trump.
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Mr. Ku, who has written on China's adherence to the treaty, said the spokesman's bluntness was striking.
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Then the sustained torrent of emotion kept you from hearing the bluntness of some of her lines.
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And residents here have long been the primary calendar's bulwark of bluntness, following "Iowa nice" with Northeastern candor.
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In an email comment, class counsel Lieberman said he hopes the objectors take Judge Rakoff's bluntness to heart.
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It wouldn't be out of left field, given its already unhurried pace, its seriousness, and its confrontational bluntness.
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No, a disruption-hungry group of them has decided to equate his hypersexed chatter with politically incorrect bluntness.
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I admired his courage and idealism; his bluntness and willingness to tell hard truths, even to friendly audiences.
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He thinks Mexican culture prizes warmth and a sense of connectedness in social relations, and so discourages bluntness.
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But particularly in dealings with "cunning Iraqi politicians" and other suspect actors, he prized bluntness and rejected euphemisms.
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Memo to the DNC, pardon my bluntness, but it's the turnout, idiots, not the lawsuits, that win elections.
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His bluntness would appeal to populists looking for a strong leader and establishment types looking for a winner.
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"It's no place to start a company," he told me with characteristic bluntness in the kitchen one afternoon.
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Trump has the spontaneity: His shoot-from-the-hip bluntness is one reason he's so popular with voters.
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His bluntness suggests that he will call out any whizz-kid traders plotting to blow up the financial system.
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Arena, a 66-year-old member of the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame, agreed with his usual bluntness.
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" In her early days, her adviser John Hoskyns had told her with startling bluntness: "You bully your weaker colleagues.
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The bluntness often catches new residents off guard, particularly young people unused to having uncomfortable conversations face-to-face.
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The "real stars" quip is a good one, as is the bluntness of the "No you did not" message.
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He's known for his bluntness and has responded to several controversial news reports about Facebook over the last year.
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Alter's work reaches the heights when simple yet strange English is called for, with Hebraic bluntness becoming aphoristic compression.
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But to borrow Logan's customary bluntness, the historical material he's assembled is simply too much — and therefore not enough.
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Mr. Rosenblatt too often goes for bluntness where nuance is needed, which gets in the way of human connection.
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Trump's sentiments of exhaustion and financial fatigue are hard to fault, his "take the oil" bluntness perhaps easier to.
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Ms. Harris, who served as state attorney general and San Francisco district attorney, tends instead toward a courtroom bluntness.
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Trying to find that balance of bluntness and beauty at the same time was really something I thought about.
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Family Members Are NOT Afraid To OffendYou can't get closer than family, and with that closeness may come extreme bluntness.
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China, he said with a bluntness that is rare here, had fundamentally botched its policy on the divided Korean Peninsula.
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Their styles are decidedly different, and the senator's patience for Mr. Trump's bluntness may be tested in the coming weeks.
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"I think bluntness is important, but I also expected it back and I got candid conversations back from them," she said.
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His bluntness is laughable until you remember that there are many men in the entertainment industry who share those sentiments unironically.
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In the world of optimism that is Silicon Valley — real or contrived — the memo stands out for its bluntness and honesty.
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Politicians past and present lined up to pay tribute to a man remembered as much for his bluntness as his integrity.
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The Vermont senator's bluntness was part of what made Sanders a star in 2016, but it could backfire for him in 20163.
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After this bruising election season, bluntness and sometimes bullying behavior have become mainstream and replaced the courtesies and genteelness of generations past.
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The President's vagueness on white supremacists stood in stark contrast to the bluntness, bombast and outspokenness Trump has built his career on.
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That outburst from the Defense Department, which was notable for its bluntness,sparked a fresh battle on the hotly partisan Benghazi panel.
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King Louis cleverly insults the way he speaks French while complimenting Claire, mocking his English ancestry and the bluntness of his people.
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Buruma reports on Japan's elegiac theatricality with a certain Dutch bluntness and the result is a book that is luscious and precise.
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Zhang, reflecting Beijing's increased bluntness toward Washington, said the two sides will deal with "outside challenges" and protect each other's security and development.
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Many young Saudis admire him as an energetic representative of their generation who has addressed some of the country's problems with uncommon bluntness.
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On the issue of Guantánamo Bay, his reputation for candor and bluntness sometimes put him at odds with the White House's preferred narrative.
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Ms. Gillibrand's bluntness worries some Democrats in early voting states, who fear a repeat of the kind of sexism they believe sank Mrs.
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In its bluntness, "Society's Child" belongs to the polemical mode of early Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, influences that have waned, although not completely.
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Clinton's recent bluntness has been a stark break from how she was as a candidate in 2016, where she was more guarded and careful.
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The praise was focused particularly on her clash with Cruz and on the bluntness of her words regarding the seriousness of the Flynn matter.
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So her initial reaction to her therapist's bluntness is entirely understandable, as is Dr. Reisman's need to consistently bring the discussion back to abuse.
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He paints a realistic tableau of police privilege, pragmatism, racial bluntness, street smarts, love of partners and loyalty to what they call the Job.
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The works were designed and distributed collectively, their amateur bluntness a formal protest against the advertisements and the government placards that represented the establishment.
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Nevertheless, his latest call for unwavering discipline, delivered in a lengthy speech live-streamed to party officials around the country, was unusual in its bluntness.
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Facebook isn't immediately announcing any changes to the product itself, but Zuckerberg acknowledges the company's problems with more bluntness than he has used to date.
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Many analysts said they were surprised by the bluntness of his comments, particularly at a time when the Taliban appeared to be making significant inroads.
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It's stream-of-consciousness bluntness, a coalescing of words that bring to light new possibilities, but also allow one's bullshit to stand and be exposed.
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Bennett, who has lively, wide-set eyes and an unruly beard, can rapidly shift in conversation from careful deliberation to surprising bluntness, or to comedy.
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Polk's ideas for how Alexa in your living room should work are almost admirable in their bluntness: make a midrange soundbar and then Just Add Alexa.
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There is also the risk of seeming inauthentic: Politicians are not known for their bluntness, so swearing in a scripted speech can, at times, appear forced.
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And he understands, as Berlusconi did, that extreme bluntness mitigates extraordinary affluence, giving a plutocrat a bridge to, and bond with, the common man or woman.
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"It's a huge public health problem, and we simply are not meeting it with the bluntness and plain-spokenness and dollars that we need to," Sen.
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This tension between her bluntness and her anxiety has long been the engine fueling her charismatic, assured stand-up, the bedrock of her prolific young career.
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But the salesman's pushiness and a bluntness that bordered on insubordination were distasteful to the patrician Henry Ford II, chairman and grandson of the firm's founder.
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Hicks: He had taken the measure of mainstream culture and found it both hypersexual and antiseptic, so he ratcheted up the bluntness, the strangeness, the ambiguity.
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These movies, with their sardonic bluntness and their suggestive dialogue, were made in pre-Code Hollywood, the brief, giddy period that lasted from 1930 to 1934.
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Depending on who is being notified, she and her all-female team of investigators, a sisterhood of syphilis sleuths, select an interviewing technique: compassion; humor; bluntness.
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The bluntness of its exclusion instrument and the relative speed of its process have thrust the ITC into the middle of many high-profile patent cases.
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Bluntness in New York can be a political virtue, at least among people and groups relieved not to be the targets of slice-and-dice rants.
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Channeling the same bluntness that helped fuel his political rise, he carved out a staunchly noninterventionist stance on the conflict and criticized as plodding Mr. Obama's approach.
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The Massachusetts Democrat set her sights on taking down Bloomberg and seemed to blindside the former New York mayor with the bluntness and ferocity of her attacks.
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He seems sincere—in a recent study of working-class Obama voters who went for Trump in 2016, many of them trusted him because of his bluntness.
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With similar bluntness, he freely admitted that his vast success at getting media coverage has absolutely nothing to do with his substantive ideas: I'll be honest with you.
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His preference for "content of character" (as he defines it) over color of skin, coupled with his characteristic bluntness, is almost guaranteed to offend in our hypersensitive age.
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Kudos to the most unfiltered Kardashian of all for using her bluntness to add to the conversation about the complicated relationship with fashion for non-sample-sized people.
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And with more and more of our lives spent online, how reassuring it feels to tether ourselves again to the world, to the solidity and bluntness of objects.
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But then we're all plenty sloppy these days, pulled toward staccato bluntness by the teeny-tiny keypads on our smartphones and the 140-character limit on our tweets.
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The scene startled me for its bluntness, but also because it seemed to carry so much weight concerning its social politics—that sometimes monsters are hiding in plain sight.
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The 853-year-old is the star of the enormously popular eponymous courtroom show, in which she presides over real-life small claims cases with trademark wit and bluntness.
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The reality is this: Every political journalist in the world is absolutely thrilled that Donald Trump not only tweets but does with the frequency and bluntness that he does.
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His videos featured him ranting directly to the camera, The Daily Show-style, on topics like Beyonce's feuds, Lindsay Lohan's antics, and reality TV with unapologetic bluntness and wit.
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His bluntness served him well when he could turn it on something he disagreed with, like the "right-wing, dare I say racist" administration of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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For now, most Republicans are overlooking Trump's bothersome character excesses — without conceding that his impulsiveness and bluntness may well have contributed to his success after Republican sobriety and traditionalism failed.
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The exchange turned out to be an unusually vivid window into the almost kingly power that Trump sees himself as holding, and which he has begun describing with increasing bluntness.
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SHIRT-SLEEVE BLUNTNESS On Friday, Macron listened to grievances from the mayors, who complained about the cost of living on remote islands and unemployment levels much higher than mainland France.
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He got a great ovation and many liked his candor and bluntness -- he talks like a real person and people like the fact he's willing to take on the establishment.
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The dozen or so smaller paintings in the show, most done in acryla gouache on watercolor paper, manifest a sense of tension between bluntness of message and subtlety of means.
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Morrissey's innovation was to bring punk's bluntness to his lyrics, to strip away pop reassurance and admit to emotions that could be bleak, abject, petty, angry, contentious or self-destructive.
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His new work, despite its seeming discontinuity of formal vocabulary and its allusions to the built environment, retains that deliberate bluntness and is no less awkward for being distinctly architectural.
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The Houston rapper's Fever, out since May, celebrates exactitude, perfectly timed raps, and whirring metallic drum machines that click just right, combining old-school virtues like verbal bluntness and linearity.
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When interviewed by The Independent in 1992, he reflected with characteristic bluntness on his various honorary functions, including roles on a committee on coinage and at the wildlife charity WWF.
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His attractive qualities of bluntness and loyalty are offset by a propensity for passive-aggressiveness in his dealings with civilian authority and a dogmatic attachment to some pretty dubious ideas.
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Mr. Trump's tweet suggested the agreement could be at risk while Mr. Turnbull said that, despite the bluntness of the discussion, the United States had committed to upholding the arrangement.
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Perhaps the male candidates didn't believe they needed to apologize for displays of emotion or bluntness, but research also shows that the women felt they had a reason for apologizing.
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His players on the Minnesota Vikings have seen it and heard it, and they understand that his gruff countenance and pipe-wrench bluntness belie a warm regard for their welfare.
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Sanders fares best, with a 40-point advantage that's at the heart of his candidacy: Some voters may not be on board with his policies, but they admire his bluntness.
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Even voters who do not demand Sanders-like ideological purity could opt for any number of alternatives if they are put off by a reality check of Klobuchar-like bluntness.
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Almost contrary to his speech in Iowa, he told CBS his bluntness is one thing he would maintain as president, in an interview with Face the Nation earlier this month.
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It's terrifying in some bits, but the bluntness of these horrifying images, they just come out of nowhere, and you don't necessarily know if you're supposed to be scared or not.
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Written by MacFarlane and directed by Star Trek's Brannon Braga, "About a Girl" deals with enormously complicated questions of gender with a staggering bluntness that somehow still manages to be vague.
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He has remade the nature of the presidency in his own fashion, using social media with a characteristic bluntness, challenging longtime U.S. allies and questioning Washington traditions once viewed as sacrosanct.
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But Ms. Regev is the wrong person to promote this change — and so is her right-wing governing coalition, which prioritizes controversy over efficiency, bluntness over measured discussion, triumphalism over humility.
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This quality is intensified by the remarkable way that these scenes are performed, as arias of physical extremes, with varying positions, and an unusual bluntness about how the female body operates.
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Posted in the simple bluntness of block sign letters, the promises take on gravity in their enlarged, public state; by contrast, the decontextualized pledges made by public figures assume an illogical absurdity.
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A tweet with a truncated version of the video provoked mixed reaction on social media Friday night, with some people criticizing the senior senator for being harsh, and others praising her bluntness.
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Paramore's martial drums and jagged guitar slam down with a joyless bluntness that dulls the melody, matching the ardor in Williams's singing and songwriting with textbook examples of a redundant musical correlative.
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The outspoken Republican is known for his criticism of Obama and the Affordable Care Act, as well as his signature bluntness, a trait he promised to stay true to in his campaign.
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Still, the same unvarnished bluntness, lack of polish and unwavering devotion to his tried-and-true message — which made him a global hero of the left — continue to create challenges for him.
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And Collins's bluntness, and her willingness to state her refusal to vote for Trump in clear terms, might open the door for other members of the Senate GOP caucus to do the same.
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LONDON — With his unique blend of sweary Cockney bluntness, no-nonsense shutdowns and occasional lip-syncs of famous movie scenes, British actor Danny Dyer is a force to be reckoned with on Twitter.
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The concept of the bluntness and razor-sharp, jawline-skimming length was an intentional departure from softer, beachier bobs Hough has worn in the past, like in the Nicholas Sparks movie Safe Haven.
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Wang, who with his salt-and-pepper hair stands out among aging Chinese officials who often favor jet-black dye jobs, has been on a roll since then, raising eyebrows with his bluntness.
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While many people responded that they liked his bluntness, style and outspoken views, one respondent, Fei Danyang, said watching the U.S. was like a real-life episode of TV show 'House of Cards.
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He delivered a racially charged, anti-immigrant message with surprising resonance, and he did so — not just then but in the months afterward — with an unapologetic bluntness that many listeners interpreted as strength.
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"You want to know what this was really all about?" he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect.
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Mr. Hogan, who became the European Union's trade commissioner in December, appeared to be delivering on expectations that he would deploy his trademark bluntness to meet the Trump administration on its own terms.
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That development would be decisive for Jean Tinguely, Mark di Suvero and other postwar sculptors, though while later kinetic art could espouse a machine-age bluntness, Calder's were always lighter and more biological.
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Tyler's Kate is less angry than she is blunt, and when she's reprimanded at work for her bluntness, she doesn't understand why: "Emma asked who you thought Room Four's best drawer was," Mrs.
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He has been known for his bluntness and willingness to make waves, all of which suggests he won't be a shrinking violet when it comes to giving his perspective to the commander in chief.
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After blaming the violence "on many sides" Saturday, Trump stayed silent for close to 48 hours, letting his trademark bluntness and campaign pledges to call terrorism what it is succumb to silence and vagueness.
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Eric Soufer, who served as senior counsel for policy for Mr. Schneiderman, said Ms. James's bluntness had caused "apprehension and uneasiness" among some high-level officials who have left the office after her election.
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Hatfield's deadpan, slightly flat voice suits Newton-John's cheery, perhaps too neatly developed pop melodies, producing a droll, amused quality that rejuvenates both the original songs and the bluntness of Hatfield's own guitar-rock.
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I love the incredibly vibrant histories attached to them; I love the fuck-you bluntness of them; I love that they're specific and unapologetic and true; and I love that they mean I love women.
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He said Ailes equipped three modern Republican presidents — Ronald Reagan, George H.W. and George W. Bush — with "blunt advice that led them to success," adding that such bluntness also led him to accrue many enemies.
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His mother, Feliciana (Jai Baptista), is routinely forced to share Antonio's bed, which suggests that Virgílio may be Antonio's son, one more complication in a lyrically minded movie that wafts into schematic tidiness and bluntness.
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When I asked if she had been excited for black people to hear the band's music and experience it as their own, she responded, with characteristic bluntness, by jumping from hypothetical scenarios to material realities.
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While Mr. Trump is not the first Republican to propose cutting anti-poverty programs to pay for tax cuts, his bluntness breaks, at least rhetorically, with a Republican establishment that insists it cares about poverty.
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She has drawn a cult-like following among young people who have nicknamed her The Notorious R.B.G., a play on American rapper The Notorious B.I.G. I have witnessed her off-bench bluntness many times through the years.
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Bridgewater, New Jersey (CNN)President Donald Trump, a man known for his bluntness, was anything but on Saturday, failing to name the white supremacists or alt-right groups at the center of violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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The film grabs hold of a notion bubbling under the surface of Obama-era white liberals (yet obvious to Black America!), that Black people's bodies are subject to the bluntness of white power manipulations, Democrat or otherwise.
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Mattis returns to the Department of Defense after years of service as one of the U.S. Marine Corps' top generals in Iraq and Afghanistan and brings with him a reputation of bluntness and a hardline policy on Iran.
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It was the bluntness of the president's tone that prompted the most surprise among the British, who had expected emollience ahead of the summit in October, when the outlines of a deal are due to be thrashed out.
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Although incredibly popular, with 60% approval ratings, Ahok was considered by many to be a divisive figure, by virtue both of his minority status and of his bluntness, which ran counter to Javanese traditions of deference and circumlocution.
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But, along with Dr. William H. Foege, now an adviser to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Henderson was considered a field marshal whose combination of vision, bluntness, tenacity and political acumen carried the campaign to victory.
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In many ways, her problem at the mike is the opposite of Mr. Trump's — cerebral, calculated, stripped of all spontaneity and risk, her style epitomizes what fans of "tell it like it is" bluntness think of as untrustworthy.
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But even the most ardent fan could find its bluntness uncomfortably timely: In our build-that-wall moment, a story about a government-sponsored plan to cull poor minorities feels less like political satire than current-affairs commentary.
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He has attracted enormous crowds and a national following with a slate of progressive policy prescriptions and a willingness to speak with unusual bluntness about race in his contest against Mr. DeSantis, a Trump acolyte and former congressman.
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A farmer from birth, Mr. Yeutter, who was secretary of agriculture under President George Bush and, earlier, the United States trade representative under Reagan, negotiated complex economic deals with a bluntness more common in pastures than in politics.
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In Colorado Springs, near the Air Force Academy and the headquarters of the United States Northern Command, Marianne Quast, the mother of an Air Force veteran, said she had been drawn to Mr. Trump's bluntness earlier in the campaign.
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And yet: there were moments when I believed that the otherworldly glow of Anohni's singing was what our collective consciousness must sound like—that the divine possibilities of her voice were more persuasive than the bluntness of her language.
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Trump had that "kind of bluntness and occasionally even crass language which, if nothing else, at least meant authenticity," said Jay Heiler, a lawyer considering a run against Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona, a rare Republican critic of Trump.
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He also responded with disarming bluntness to some queries, saying he does not "support the idea that Muslims as a religious group should be denied admission to the United States," and that the law "absolutely" does not allow waterboarding.
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But she also says the bluntness with which she wrote that Washington residents need to get over high housing prices -- and that she'd rather have a tooth pulled without anesthesia than live in rural Paris, Texas -- might be her strongest asset.
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The droid, voiced by veteran voice actor Alan Tudyk, has a curmudgeon-like bluntness that often lends itself to comedy, making K-2SO different from the three other main droids in the "Star Wars" series, R2-D2, C-3PO and BB-8.
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A simple description of its material—as a well-armed government agent, who answers to no higher echelon, you police a riot-torn New York City by shooting its citizens on sight, and receive prizes in return—summarizes the game's ugly bluntness.
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More deeply, they are taken by the white man's nostalgia of Trump's message, his call for a return to an older style of bluntness—and offensiveness—about race and ethnicity that once pervaded the culture, reinforcing white supremacy under the guise of amusement.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron showed a trademark mix of bluntness and humor to field questions from overseas mayors at a debate at the Elysee Palace on Friday, one of a myriad of consultations he launched last month to quell social unrest.
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But his affability was outnumbered 5 to 1: by the Rolling Stones' raunch and cynical sass, by Mr. Dylan's dire visions, by the Who's fury and self-inquisition, by Mr. Young's pragmatic bluntness and by Mr. Waters's sullen, broad-spectrum opposition to authority.
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The race is tightening once again because Trump's perceived character — a strong leader with a simple message, never flinching from a fight, cutting through political correctness with a bracing bluntness — resonates in places like Appalachia where courage, country and cussedness are core values.
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"There are lots of villains in this story," she says with refreshing bluntness, and she goes after many of them, from the (white) mayor of Flint to the public-health officials who claimed that ensuring safe drinking water was not their responsibility.
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Mr. Mattis, who gained a reputation for bluntness during his years as a Marine Corps general, has appeared behind the lectern in the Pentagon briefing room only twice since he became defense secretary, the better to stay out of political debates, aides say.
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The entertainer's father is still alive but has a form of dementia that manifests itself in a bluntness and candor that translate to the audience as funny-ghastly, as if Mr. Baddiel can't quite believe what is coming out of his father's mouth.
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While earlier Charlie Hebdo cartoons had an element of ambiguity about them, this editorial reveals the magazine's worldview with a shocking bluntness: Muslims, simply by practicing their faith, are to be regarded as enemies not just of French secularism, but also collaborators in terrorism.
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The centerpiece of Yang's campaign is his call for a universal basic income (UBI) that he calls the Freedom Dividend (he told Klein, in a bit of characteristic bluntness, that he calls it that because it "tests better" as a term than "universal basic income").
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Ms. Dumas did the 22012 works here to illustrate a new Dutch translation of Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis," and although she has not shied from sex before, here her usual bluntness gives way to a rapturous eroticism in which ink has its own salaciousness.
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Like his hero Duchamp, Mr. Ai has wholly erased any border between his art and his life — and there are some emergencies, among them the displacement of more human beings than any time since World War II, that this artist can only address with bluntness.
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In a horror movie, the monster is inevitably the center of interest, and once the first body in the motel falls, "Detroit" begins to trade its vivid sense of nuance — especially present in its delicate observation of Fred and Larry's friendship — for bluntness and sensationalism.
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Makeup artist Naoko Scintu complemented the warmth of the ombré brunette and the bluntness of the cut with winged eyeliner and a mauve-pink lip, while stylist Rebecca Corbin-Murray dressed James in a black velvet gown, embellished with crystal buttons and white satin cuffs.
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Because she and I have an honest relationship, she has expressed her disappointment to me as plainly as words can deliver, and I have responded with equal bluntness: There are certain things you can have in life, Mother, and I'm afraid this is not one of those.
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So while there's much to celebrate about "Orlando" as a milestone, there's also much to lament: an apparent lack of self-editing, an inelegant integration of music and text, and an agitprop bluntness that turns the final scenes into a cringe-worthy litany of liberal causes.
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As a celebrity, however, Kanye arguably made his biggest public impression with that 2005 proclamation that "George Bush doesn't care about black people," a line he dropped during a Hurricane Katrina fundraiser with such casual bluntness that comedian Mike Myers, standing next to him, visibly struggled to process it.
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As the New York Times explains about the real transcripts:With bracing bluntness and a smattering of R-rated language, the private conversations reveal a president sometimes unseen by the general public, one who veered from wonky discussions of the Northern Ireland peace process to serrated assessments of his American political opposition.
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The bluntness of King Vajiralongkorn's intervention—and the determination it reveals to resist relatively small checks on royal power—is both a snub to the junta and a worry for democrats, some of whom had dared hope that the new king might be happy to take a back seat in public life.
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Torvalds announced the new code of conduct in his initial note about stepping back, and the move created controversy in the Linux community for its stark departure from Torvalds' prior "code of conflict" that treated no-filter feedback and bluntness as the natural and more successful state of open source software development.
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" Ms. Battle was a Grammy-winning soprano who had appeared with the Met 224 times by 1994, when Joseph Volpe, then general manager, fired her from a production of Donizetti's "La Fille du Régiment" a week before opening night, citing, with a bluntness unusual in classical music, her "unprofessional actions during rehearsals.
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The report, which was mandated by Congress and made public by the White House, is notable not only for the precision of its calculations and bluntness of its conclusions, but also because its findings are directly at odds with President Trump's agenda of environmental deregulation, which he asserts will spur economic growth.
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It will then be up to General Milley, who easily mixes charming banter and bluntness, to manage what is probably the most consequential professional relationship of his life: becoming the senior military adviser to a mercurial president who has routinely brought the Pentagon into the political fray, to the discomfort of many top Pentagon officials.
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From the violent drug dealer parables of Biggie and Jay Z to the eventual trap house bluntness of Gucci Mane and Migos, the explicit nature of the thematic content broadened as it grew bolder, and with it came an acceptance of criminality by a mainstream made up largely of people that never knew or grew up in that life.
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They had a well-received HBO series and two Top 20 albums, as well as a Grammy for an earlier EP. They also had (and still have) a bluntness about their careers — a lack of interest in familiar enticements like wealth and fame, if not an outright cynicism about the entertainment industry — that can be mistaken for their authentically low-key demeanors.
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The resulting broad white swaths, three times the width of the stripes, convey the brightness of daylight while manifesting an unexpected bluntness, a side effect of the composition's simplicity, which abruptly downshifts into the mistiness of the neighboring canvas, "Untitled (Ordinary Happiness)" — six narrow blue stripes against five white bands, an arrangement that maintains an air of both buoyancy and authority.
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Several students who attended Don Jr. events on college campuses boiled his appeal down to a few factors: his in-person humor, his bluntness and his talents as an internet memelord — blasting scathing GIFs and images of his enemies into social media, and writing shocking tweets on the verge of bad taste, all in the name of owning socialist libs and weak cucks.
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In this case, Mr. Trump has told people around him that he thinks Kim Jong-un, the unpredictable North Korean leader, will ultimately be prodded to cut a deal, and that the bluntness of his language is intended to create a crisis that drives him to negotiate before North Korea perfects a nuclear-tipped missile capable of striking the American mainland.
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Shanty Tramp is every bit as sleazy as its title suggests, but while it seldom misses a chance to show star Eleanor Vaill (billed as Lee Holland) without a top, it also touches on religious hypocrisy and racial bigotry while depicting its eponymous shanty tramp's wicked ways as the product of an abusive upbringing, all with a bluntness that a more respectable film would never dare.
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