bluntness

1 The singer’s bluntness and openness has been part of the band’s appeal, and Talbot is unafraid to share his struggles with addiction and depression.

2 But this project boasts something that film didn't: The participation of Durst, who sat for more than 20 hours of interviews with Jarecki and speaks with often jaw-dropping bluntness about his past.

3 Boardwalk Empire is not the only show ever to kill its primary antihero in the finale, but the bluntness with which it did so speaks volumes.

4 It explains some of the record's bluntness – every track is full of incident, and most incidents are mixed to a similar level, so at first the songs hit you as unresolved slabs of babble.

5 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.

6 Writers use both levity and discomforting bluntness to get their points across.

7 They were all startled by the bluntness with which Bigwig went to the point.

8 He needs to realize that your bluntness is part of who you are.

9 Always he is a calming, quiet presence among a cast who rarely hold back on saying what they feel with passion and bluntness.

10 Apologies for the bluntness, but sweat is simply a by-product of all that heat.

11 But somehow I can accept her bluntness easier than lying.

12 He says he wrote “Down to Earth” with a “deliberate bluntness.”

13 Back then, “Tidal” lived somewhere between Morissette’s bracing bluntness and the ethereal poetry of Tori Amos.

14 But the bluntness and unapologetic crudity with which he tells his story are tremendously appealing.

15 Such bluntness is characteristic of him.

他就是这麽迟钝.

16 The singer mingles tart observations and rueful backward glances in a voice that couches its bluntness in dreamy beauty.

17 Moriondo writes with a winning bluntness, both about her own shortcomings and the objects of her obsession.

18 As a filmmaker, Mr. Lurie cannot hope to match Peckinpah’s lyricism, but he strikes a decent balance of bluntness and subtlety.

19 It’s a nice metaphor for the effort it takes to assemble the product known as Joan Rivers, but the bluntness of the images and her gaze are disconcerting.

20 But “that’s where I get my bluntness. All my friends know exactly where they stand.”

1 直言不讳

blunt Frank communicative explicitness speak up for oneself

2 率直

spadish open easy round straight flat transparent straightforward outright up-front expansive downright pointed Frank candid plump childlike unequivocal flat-out burly foursquare point-blank unreserved unvarnished heart-to-heart ingenuous straight-out shirt-sleeve plain frankly openly plainly candidly unreservedly ingenuously straightforwards freedom candor directness earthiness straightness candour plain dealing open mind straight out open heart man to man

3 迟钝

beef-witted cunctative fat-witted staumrel slow heavy fat gross dull sluggish lymphatic inert impervious lethargic impenetrable glassy heavy-handed obtuse tardy leaden phlegmatic stolid lumpish torpid slow-witted heavy-footed dunny laggardly thick-skulled unapt sternforemost dully torpidness opacity inertia phlegm slowness dullness torpor insensibility denseness unreadiness stolidity torpidity cunctation obtund

4 钝

dull blunt dullness pointless numb obtuse unpointed obtusely turn deaden

5 直率

direct downright forthright plain outright straightness