| 单词 | blunt |
| 例句 | School board president Earl Bruck was just as blunt as Sam Lee. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z She lights blunt red sticks of Korean incense he gave her for Christmas and paces in circles, cutting slow butterflies in the smoke with her arms. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But Frankie had always been honest and blunt, even to a fault, and maybe that was what I needed most now. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He dealt the blunt end of the bar a smart blow, setting it firmly into the crack. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z One of them licks his next blunt as they leave. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Kathy wrapped her scarf around her face to blunt its power. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He lifted Nita up as though she weighed nothing at all, bringing her face close to his own blunt, doglike features. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He was a youth of about seventeen, with the blunt hands of a farmer. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Sprat was even blunter: getting rid of the tyranny of the ancients simply involved throwing out what he called ‘the rubbish’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Her weapons were blunt ones, of soft metal. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The badger bowed low in a dignified manner, gesturing with her massive blunt paw. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I wasn’t sure how to respond to her blunt honesty except with honesty of my own. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z In Hadem at large, in the bars and restaurants, on the street comers and stoops, there could be heard more blunt criticism of Malcolm X than ever before in his career. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z What he ended up with was a blunt, sturdy house sheathed carefully with cedar shingles, testimony to its builder’s exacting nature. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Unfortunately, no. I must be blunt. They’re not minded to renew your grant.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In every direction the blunt, accustomed, holy fingers were spreading little tablecloths, or holding up books, or blessing each other thoroughly, or soaking each other with Holy Water, or reverently displaying God to the people. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I gathered my energies and launched them in this blunt sentence— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I glanced back, watching as he used the blunt end of her pencil to follow lines of numbers on the page. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Ken was sort of cute in a big blunt cocky way. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She still wore the black Khmer Rouge pajama shirt and pants, but her hair was growing out of the blunt Khmer Rouge cut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Our illness is treated with contempt, foul Black Draught, and castor oil that blunts our minds. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “I had abject terror at the idea of the group,” said Croteau, who is blunt and intellectually engaging. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z His face was broad, much blunted and worn down by time, like a rock in a torrent: a calm face, terribly calm. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z They denounced him for his “Parliamentary Cretinism” and accused him of “providing relief to the people and thereby blunting the People’s Consciousness and diverting them from the Revolution.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The chopper was a large blunt thing far too heavy for a small boy to use. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z While bombs fell in the North, Nixon sent a blunt note to President Thieu in the South: the United States was going to make a deal with or without his consent. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And he followed that fear as a hunter follows the signs, the broad, blunt, clawed tracks of the bear, that may at any moment turn on him from the thickets. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The visit blunted the feeling of loneliness in him so that when he said good-bye he was at peace with himself once more. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Behind my closed eyes, the gift shop man’s blunt fingers pointed, accusing me of being black. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She got a new haircut recently; she has blunt bangs and long layers now. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z But our response to crime remains a blunt and expensive instrument that more often seems to scar the criminal than reform him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Let us be blunt, my lady. Stannis would make an appalling king. Nor is he like to become one. Men respect Stannis, even fear him, but precious few have ever loved him." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The enormous serpent, bright, poisonous green, thick as an oak trunk, had raised itself high in the air and its great blunt head was weaving drunkenly between the pillars. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The conclusion was even more blunt this time: “Kenna, as an artist, and his songs lack a core audience and have limited potential to gain significant radio airplay.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She’s not used to people asking such blunt questions—asking any questions at all, really. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I drop, letting him roll over me before bringing the blunt end of my blade to the back of his legs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She was normally blunt with the dead, but it felt unseemly to talk about Clara’s murder in such a matter-of-fact way. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “I’ll take a blunt button hook and pull his tonsils out by the by jingoed roots, just like I promised him. He doesn’t quit. He’s fired.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z "I killed a man at twelve. You can be sure it was not with a blunt sword." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “I’ll try not to, but I’m always possessed to burst out with some particularly blunt speech or revolutionary sentiment before her. It’s my doom, and I can’t help it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “I do wish you hadn’t been quite so blunt,” Queen Bella said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z A small blunt head emerged and swiveled to face us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z By nature or by exposure he had become like them, in their understatement, their blunt assertion of will. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He pronounced the words lazily, blunting the t’s to d’s so that it sounded like “siddle lister.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Lourdes is pleased with her uniform’s implicit authority, with the severity of her unadorned face and blunt, round nose. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Jake turned the globe again and pressed his blunt, grimy thumb on a carefully selected spot. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Polishing silver reminds me of preschool, where I did all these random chores like sorting, scrubbing, and sewing giant buttons with a blunt needle. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It made him proud to observe that twenty- nine months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z There’s no need to try to figure out what he really means, the way there sometimes is with girls; he’s blunt. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z But the terrier’s teeth were blunt nowadays, and with a tremendous effort the collie threw him off. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Their blunt doglike faces stared at the people with contempt, their noses twitching for a scent, their dappled dark skin and yellow eyes watching hungrily. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z We also disapproved of Aunt Anne’s blunt criticism of how we kept our bedrooms, and some of the changes she made in the family routine. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The old dog ate, crunching the bones ravenously with his blunt teeth. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They fought with blunted weapons in a chaos of mud and blood, small troops fighting together and then turning on each other as alliances formed and fractured, until only one man was left standing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His song was loaded with the blunt, sarcastic humor soldiers used to get through their days, following orders that didn’t always make sense. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Susan Calvin injected a blunt, vinegary note, “What makes a single robot so important to the project, and why hasn’t it been located?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z When Cole reached camp, he jabbed the blunt end of his spear into the chest cavity of the fish and rotated it over the smoky flames. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Frank shot arrows until his quiver was empty, using blunt- tipped missiles that wouldn’t kill but left some nasty bruises. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It was an old taunt, blunted by overuse. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My next is of blunt, consuming rage as Keenan’s face swims into focus. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It was an enormous leap of faith to give them arrows, even if the tips were blunted. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I walked slowly along the passage to the door by the archway, my mind still blunt and slow as though I had just woken from a long sleep. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Matt could imagine him as a boy, long before the events that had blunted his nose and reamed him with scars from head to toe. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She was calling us back from our loneliness with three blunt words, as only our mom could do. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Her hair was short and blunt, cut off abruptly right below her chin, and red in the sunlight. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Both weapons were blunted, yet still they raised an awful clangor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Field Secretary Medgar Evers in Mississippi, I wanted to say the blunt truths that needed to be said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Let me be perfectly blunt: my purpose in writing this brief note is to suggest that we meet. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Harris argued that the top-down influence of parents is overwhelmed by the grassroots effect of peer pressure, the blunt force applied each day by friends and schoolmates. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The bright orange tarpaulin was held down by a strong nylon rope that wove its way between metal grommets in the tarpaulin and blunt hooks on the side of the boat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “To be blunt, son—that car’s an absolute outrage. It’s disgraceful.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Catelyn had been a girl the last time she had visited the Twins, but even then Lord Walder had been irascible, sharp of tongue, and blunt of manner. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z That had all passed now with his disgrace, and what on the part of the school officials had been an attitude of contempt blunted by tolerance, had now become a contempt sharpened by hate. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z At first I thought he was scratching something in, but I realized he was using the blunt edge and smudging something out. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z His clumsy arms had come together with a thwack, blunt fingers interlacing. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z She tried not to show how flustered she felt, or how much she liked the feel of his big, warm, blunt fingers loosely grasping hers. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Her physical terror had blunted her emotional perceptions. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She picked up a small ax kept by the woodstove and struck French with its blunt end, catching him off guard and hurling him into and through the front door. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z All I had to do was accept, and I could blunt the pain of living for a little while longer. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Just before lunchtime, Judge Hill delivered his blunt ruling: guilty of all charges. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Thus he had got a blunt dismissal from Vemish and a bland one from Ismay, and he wondered at what he had been told about the kindly ways of the East Reach. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z When you looked at O’Brien’s powerful shoulders and his blunt- featured face, so ugly and yet so civilized, it was impossible to believe that he could be defeated. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He did, though, point out that it “makes the teeth blunt and makes them decay.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I was blunt and stupid, but I didn’t mind because something about being alone with her now didn’t sit right in my gut. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He was a stout, blunt man, not nearly as polished as I would have expected from a cabinet minister. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Fingers, though blunt, were far more nimble than a hook. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Charlie, on the other hand, got the entire blunt force of the namesake sledgehammer: Charlemagne. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The tips of her fingers were blunt, squared off, and tapered like those of a working man. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z "Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity," sniffed Lyell. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We overhaul the bayonets—that is to say, the ones that have a saw on the blunt edge. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His shifgrethor must be founded, and composed, and sustained, altogether differently from ours; and when I thought myself most blunt and frank with him he may have found me most subtle and unclear. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z On the contrary, since the Harlem idea of seduction is, to put it mildly, blunt, whatever these people saw in me merely confirmed my sense of my depravity. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Judging by the blunted ends of metal rods, it used to have railings, but it doesn’t anymore. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Ser Barristan suggested a tourney instead; his orphans could ride at rings and fight a melee with blunted weapons, he said, a suggestion Dany knew was as hopeless as it was well-intentioned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Time, blunting the edges of those sharp memories. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z His face was square and blunt; he had gray hair that he brushed back off his forehead and thin, straight eyebrows over cold eyes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The contrast with Brutus is made, and reinforced when later he says: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend ... Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “What are you guys doing here?” she said, and then smiled to blunt some of the panic in her voice. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z It’s only sharp words back and forth; no fists or blunt objects. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z It was Bigwig, straightforward and blunt as always, who broke the tension. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My brother has never known how to get anyone’s attention without being abrasive and blunt and loud. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Blood red, its planes dull and blunted with sweetness, its edges rigid with juice. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z A thousand women urging you to speak through the blunt tip of your pencil. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Tyrion touched his face, plucking at the proud flesh with blunt thick fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "Live steel is too dangerous. I will permit you tourney swords, with blunted edges." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Now that Guitar was completely enthusiastic, Milkman’s own excitement was blunted. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Her voice was as blunt and hard as the blow of a sledgehammer, and stunned me just the same. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Now the blunt snout of our Gemini was tracing graceful arcs in the sky, sometimes in front of our direction of travel, sometimes to one side or the other, sometimes behind. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Where Hard Tack had been tall, sleek, tapered, every line suggesting motion, his son was blunt, coarse, rectangular, stationary. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thought I might be late,” said Yaxley, his blunt features sliding in and out of sight as the branches of overhanging trees broke the moonlight. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The giant swept low with the blunt end and knocked Percy off his feet. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then I put the blunt end of the shingle between my teeth, jumped to catch a low branch, and began to climb the tree. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z This was a large red-gold Labrador retriever, a young dog with all the heritage of his sturdy working forebears in his powerful build, broad noble head and deep, blunt, gentle mouth. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It belched a huge gout of flame and charged the fractured oak tree again, striking with its great blunt wedge of a head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "I killed a man at twelve. You can be sure it was not with a blunt sword." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Nick was armed with a real rapier, now—blunted, of course. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you want Granny to live with us?” she asked, blunting my question. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no force in high school more powerful than one person’s blunt disagreement. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “Something new, Edna?” exclaimed Miss May- blunt, with lorgnette directed toward a magnificent cluster of diamonds that sparkled, that almost sputtered, in Edna’s hair, just over the center of her forehead. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Her jet-black hair was cut in a short, blunt bob, just like Thorn’s. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z —Or two, and I’m not trying to be blunt here, Hannah, but you can move on. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Worst-case scenarios included my grandfather running naked in the street, wielding a hunting rifle, foaming at the mouth on the front lawn, or lying in wait with a blunt object in hand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z She brought the blunt to her plum-painted lips, pulled, exhaled, then pulled the smoke back in. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z People called Mom that a lot, probably because she had a hard time holding her tongue and could be brutally blunt when she disagreed with you. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice in his head reminded him uncannily of Kamau—blunt, straight to the point. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Here, I am the strange one, with my blunt fingers, round ears, and mayfly life. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But the words were Pyke’s, set down as he had spoken them, blunt and to the point. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "Live steel is too dangerous. I will permit you tourney swords, with blunted edges." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The birds were noisy in the dawn and the ranch cats came down from the hill like blunt snakes. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside the maps was a box of Tampa Nugget cigars, blunt. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I was strolling down a poorly lit part of Newhall Lane when something blunt struck me on the back of the head and I was bundled off into a nearby alley, half-senseless. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His point was not blunted, as mine was. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z His massive, plain, blunt presence was enough to calm them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z There wasn’t no witnesses and...well...to be blunt, word’s going ’round that your pa had come into some money and was fixing to run off to Cincinnati with...” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “Mom,” she began, then found she could not repeat Lexie’s blunt words. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The nails were flat and blunt and shiny. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Using a blunt sterling blade, I scraped away the soot engrained under his cuticles, relics of his job tending to train boilers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The sinister blunt head moved in a lazy rhythm, its forked tongue flickering endlessly in and out, the round bead-like jet eyes never leaving his for an instant. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z We worked frequently with blunted rapiers and protective plates. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Other times he told a hundred years in one long narrative, blunt and without detail. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z In English, they would be free of the sharply defined gradients of Korean hierarchy: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z After a while he stopped and pressed his hands against the bark of the cedar tree behind her so that his blunt muscled arms passed on either side of her head. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He stepped into the room and closed the door behind him, preparing to dodge the next blunt object hurled his way. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z With that, Old Tallow brought the blunt end of her ax down on the yellow dog’s head. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He cut their hair without any discernible skill, often pulling great clumps out with the blunt scissors. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Montgomery Advertiser summed up the first days of 1957 with a blunt editorial: “The issue now has passed beyond segregation. The issue now is whether it is safe to live in Montgomery, Alabama.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z To begin with, he had to spend the weary months charging against Uncle Dap, with a blunt spear under his arm. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a strange, potato-shaped head and her black hair looked as if it had been cut using a pair of blunt scissors and an upturned bowl. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Burnham was decisive, blunt, and cordial; he spoke under a level blue gaze that Olmsted found reassuring. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Mrs. B’s words might have been blunt, but she hadn’t said it like the way I always called Tamika an annoying evil scientist. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I was surprised to find what looked like a blunted smooth button at the tip of the sword instead of a sharp point. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Instinct makes me straighten up and search the room for a blunt object. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z There wasn’t much to guide us but the trees themselves and a view I remembered of the blunt, bulky Inyo Range that bounds the eastern limit of the valley. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In the education journals of the day, there were constant worries about overtaxing students or blunting their natural abilities through too much schoolwork. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In contrast, Indian blunt clubs, while capable of battering and wounding Spaniards and their horses, rarely succeeded in killing them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She'd gotten her hair cut into a thick, blunt flip that swung easily when she moved her head. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I showed Lelia how this was done, sometimes brutally, my face a peerless mask, the bluntest instrument. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a grizzled, broad-browed head with iron-gray tufts over his eyes and a blunt and belligerent jaw. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z At the same time, the covert goal of the government was to create an African middle class to blunt the appeal of the ANC and the liberation struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were many things in Ultima’s room that I instinctively knew I should not touch, but I could not understand why she was so blunt about the dolls. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Both set helms upon their heads and chose blunted longswords from the bundle in the weapons chest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z To be blunt about it, he will not shut up. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Wes remembered leaning back in the black, padded parlor chair and taking a puff on his blunt as the tattoo artist sealed the ink into his skin. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z An autopsy determined that the cause of Hernandez’s death was blunt force trauma to her head, according to the prosecutor’s office. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Amazingly, given the moose’s lack of cunning and peculiarly blunted survival instincts, it is one of the longest-surviving creatures in North America. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It’s the kind of blunt thing I don’t expect faeries to say, but I am used to being around Court faeries with their baroque etiquette. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The man held unroasted ones in his hand and made little crosses on them with a blunt knife before he put them in the pan. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Why couldn't I have just pretended that I could roll a blunt with the best of them? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He kept his eyes on his son’s face, but when Willie noticed this he bit his rough, blunt fingers and stared at his feet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “A blunt refusal would have been unwise. The men might rightly ask if I had taken leave of my wits.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Penny’s lance descended just in time for its blunted point to brush his shoulder; his own lance wobbled as he brought it down and banged it noisily off a comer of her shield. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Colonel Cathcart was stung by the blunt rebuke and skulked guiltily about his room in smarting repudiation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Our blades are not blunt,” said one of the workers. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z His stare was blunt; it did not care to disguise itself. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I head for the next car over, but the alligator turns as well, shambling beside the train, its blunt, toothy snout open, grinning. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z His senses must have been blunted and atrophied with money and the getting of it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z "Well, as to that, some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Her nose is blunted at the end, a bit too short for her face. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Celia pulls on a hand stretched before her, its nails blunt and hard as hooves. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Frankie’s blunt words shocked me almost as much as his description of the sweatshops. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The sharp edge of his apprehensions blunted by this sudden wealth of worldly possessions. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I look past her, into the distance as I’ve been trained to, and her cold glare bores into me with the delicacy of a blunt knife. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Later, testifying at Oppenheimer’s security trial, he delivered a blunter assessment: “Pretty foggy thinking,” he called it. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She had touched with the hand she held up to us the cool limbs of the marble boys, and those short blunt fingers had been shot through with artistic talent. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Werner thinks of Jutta with her opalescent hair and quick eyes and blunt manners: she would never be mistaken for the weakest. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the blunted light through the window shade I saw my mother kneeling by my bed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been sitting in a worn old arm chair, but now he surged out of it like a young man, his cane a blunt wooden sword before him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Though the wind blew his way now he held the singing magewind in the sail, and flake-foam shot from the boat’s blunt prow, and she slapped the water as she went. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z You have to hit the birds with blunt arrows and knock them down. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z His nails were large, rounded at the bottom and blunt and neat at the tips. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In spite of the blunt words and homely phrasing, there was nothing revolting in Katie’s explanations. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The blunted tip glanced off his ribs and knocked the play book from his grasp. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Using a pair of blunt scissors, she clipped wedges out of the liver and pressed them on glass slides. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His blunt statement had a gravitational pull, drawing me back into the room. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A black shield rimmed with iron for his left arm, a blunted longsword for his right hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His hair was very fair, his face naturally sanguine, his skin roughened by coarse soap and blunt razor blades and the cold of the winter that had just ended. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Still, I didn't care how blunt she was. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The stone construction of the prison helped blunt the extreme heat that had settled on the city and much of the country, but nothing could keep out the humidity for which Philadelphia was notorious. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was precisely the sort of home Carl would build, he thought—blunt, tidy, gruffly respectable, and offering no affront to the world, though at the same time inviting nobody. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The fingers were blunt, callused, wiry black hairs grew between the knuckles, there was dirt under the nail of the thumb. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I was a little too blunt,” he said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z They were at the age when a rat’s muzzle grows blunt and fierce and his fur brown instead of gray. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z His eyes blurred as he laid it in a crib and reached for the needle that would blunt its intelligence. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Guardsmen walked the walls, and knights and men-at-arms were training with blunted weapons. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Or just find a white writer. White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn’t threatening,” Grace said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Next, the blunt jangle of a sail settling down. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z A moment later its blunt nose thrust clear of the stream and they saw the open mouth, pure white inside. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As I went down, my jaw struck the blunt side of the blade of an axe jutting from the side of the crate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Gogol’s copy is particularly battered, the corner blunted, the cover spotted as if by a whitish mold. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z "We'll be enlisting you prentices for battle scenes soon. Your weapons will be blunted, but there will be no protective tips. So, lest you die too convincingly, you'll wear a metal plate." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Brynden Hilly had never been a man to blunt the edge of his words. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But the horns were sawed off blunt, and he had only three good legs, so Romero took him home and doctored him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The Korean language has no fewer than six different levels of conversational address, depending on the relationship between the addressee and the addresser: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Iron Emmett’s lads were well at it in the yard, blunted swords slamming into shields and ringing against one another. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I stood with a blunt in one hand and a beer in another. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning hammerblows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Sorry, guys, Mom’s dead,” he finally blurted out, blunt to the point of absurdity. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z His night’s sleep refreshed Taran but little and hardly blunted the edge of his weariness. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z She turned down the cover and pressed the blunt end of the ivory against Faye’s flabby breast with a steady, increasing pressure until the sleeping woman whined and writhed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The rat was actually in midair when a huge blunt paw knocked him flat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z A blunt axe of silence'd killed every noise in the playground. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He glared at her and jabbed at the paper with his blunt index finger. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z They looked at the plain blunt stubborn face and saw nothing but dull Dutch eyes, the great darkness, the silence. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a black sequin butterfly stitched over the place where her left breast came to a blunt point. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As do black people toasting their cognac and German beers, passing their blunts and debating MCs. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Those huge blunt paws were ready to tear some creature into dollrags. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z That is not to say, however, that he was rude or outspoken or blunt in any way. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z In any case, the blunt emotionalism of the track almost supersedes its social critique, falling in line with the tonal framework of the album. Music: For a Team Player, the Solo Moments Are Secondary 2011-04-01T21:46:41Z Each scene makes a blunt point about Bruce’s ambition or pride, or the roots of his belief system, or Hollywood’s intransigent attitude toward minorities, or Bruce’s steadfast refusal to believe in the same. Theater Review: David Henry Hwang’s ‘Kung Fu’ Opens at Signature Theater 2014-02-25T03:00:01Z It's a nuanced issue, and one that won't be solved with the passage of blunt instrument bills. Policing the grocery carts of poor Americans won't make for a healthier country 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z While stunning in the blunt gravity of facts regarding the killings of innocent black boys and men by police, the book only adds texture and nuance to this narrative if you haven’t been paying attention. Critic at Large Rebecca Carroll on Wesley Lowery's 'They Can't Kill Us All' 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z This remarkable photo emphasises the actress' skin, trademark blunt haircut and pearls. In pictures 2011-07-07T10:06:15Z Clubine herself had sustained years of abuse, including fractures and stab wounds, by her husband, a former police detective She hit his head with a wine bottle and he died of blunt force trauma. After Lives Fraught With Pain, Housing That Says ‘You’re Worthy’ 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z The music, thumping electro clash with blunt phrases like “Love me/Hate me/I don’t care,” is the sort of fluff you might find on the Eurovision song contest. Kazaky, a Boy Band, Is Everywhere 2012-08-01T23:09:08Z It’s the sort of blunt symmetry that was always Sorkin’s calling card. Review | The last thing America needs right now is more ‘West Wing’ 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Eastman also cuts the point off of Morgan’s spear and turns it into the blunted staff we’ve seen him carrying since his return to Alexandria. The Walking Dead: season six, episode four – Here’s Not Here 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z We see Karla find her best weapons in blunt objects, and to its credit, “Kidnap” is a blunt movie. Review: Halle Berry’s ‘Kidnap’ Takes Maternal Revenge to the Road 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z That's the blunt advice for Japanese visitors to Scotland in a new guidebook that looks beyond the predictable round of golf and a stroll along the Royal Mile. Try the Irn Bru, leave the flat sausage, advises Japanese guide to Scotland 2012-07-03T17:11:32Z She’s also steamy enough to weaponize seduction if it will help her, and absolutely blunt when she speaks her mind. Michael Connelly’s New Detective Makes Harry Bosch Look Like a Slouch 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z I'm trying not to reveal my white-hot anger but it's time to get blunt with her — isn't it? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Her soon-to-be ex is grieving, but she’s still seething 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z He is blunt with clients about the relationship between human and horse, likening it to any essential bond. Interview with 'Buck' Brannaman, the man who helps horses 2011-06-23T22:06:05Z Ridley’s knack for making provocative work has been honed by a relatively recent move to telly and shows such as the blunt and unrelenting American Crime. Guerrilla's John Ridley: 'As Three Kings went through the system, George Clooney was unblackified' 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z The colors are as blunt as the Rothko’s. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z The miracle of the movie is that, like Toni, it transcends blunt, reductive categorization partly because it’s free of political sloganeering, finger wagging and force-fed lessons. Review: In ‘The Fits,’ a Graceful Tale of a Girl Who Follows Her Own Beat 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The fractious get-togethers in south Brooklyn, by contrast, are a blunt instrument. ‘A Replacement Life,’ by Boris Fishman 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Actor Gary Oldman issued a blunt assessment of some his Hollywood colleagues during a recent interview with Playboy: Stop being so hypocritical, he charged. Hollywood’s Gary Oldman blasts colleagues as ‘hypocrites’ 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z It was “just fantasy, come-ons, blunt advances, quick acceptance or rejection, and even quicker sex.” “Looking,” Marriage, and the New Gay Sadness 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z After he puts her off with the glib line that they’re looking for “somebody a little different,” she stops him short with a blunt rebuttal. | 'Venus in Fur': ?Venus in Fur,? by David Ives, With Nina Arianda - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z "I'll be honest with you," Sawyer said, speaking in the blunt mode he says was typical of Hollywood types of the era. The cozy "Maltese Falcon": How "Murder, She Wrote" reinvented mysteries forever 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z There’s a type of blunt, brutal fable about men and avarice that has been reworked every decade or so since Erich von Stroheim’s silent epic “Greed” was released in 1924. ‘Gold’ Review: Dry Heave 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Sabine, a widowed gardener who lost her young daughter in an accident, is a blunt, strong-willed modern woman who seems radically out of place and out of time. Review: In ‘A Little Chaos,’ a Guileless Kate Winslet Offsets a Lavish Versailles 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Between you, you have come up with one very blunt one and one that is both elusive and allusive. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z In the past, the sexism and homophobia directed against these athletes would be even more blunt and more widespread. Women's World Cup was a triumph — and totally triggered the right-wing snowflakes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z One of A Perfect Circle’s own songs from that album — “Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums” — was as blunt and furious as its title. Music Review: A Desolate Croon That Seethes and Hints at a Band?s Next Phase 2011-07-15T22:44:06Z She’s also here to help, with nearly 140 pages of sharply argued, knottily intelligent, darkly funny cultural criticism and, if that doesn’t work, the blunter instrument of a nine-point diagnostic test. Review: ‘The Selfishness of Others,’ or I’m O.K. — You’re a Narcissist 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z With desserts, Frenchette tries the blunt approach that works so well for its main courses, and comes up short. It’s Not Fake French, It’s Frenchette 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Political satirist and comedian Stephen Colbert asked the controversial filmmaker blunt questions on Monday about his upcoming documentary series on Showtime, “The Putin Interviews.” Watch Stephen Colbert grill Oliver Stone over his new Vladimir Putin documentary 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Triggers “Death, to be blunt,” says Martin Pollecoff, 69, a psychotherapist and chair of the United Kingdom Counsel for Psychotherapy. 'You will have an emotional reboot': the ultimate guide to stress at every age 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z He has tangled occasionally with stars who found him blunt or even intimidating. Director Joe Mantello, Broadway’s Invisible Wizard 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Despite the film’s yellowface, I couldn’t help but like its blunt honesty. Watching Tokyo Through the Eyes of Outsiders 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Some juxtapositions offer a bit of decadent fun, as when Jafa interrupts a run of Mapplethorpe’s blunt black-and-whites with a rare color portrait of, hard to believe, the archbishop of Canterbury. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z And yet, even here, even after all my detective work, it's tough to get beyond the blunt, one-size-fits-all waffle of "fine". No 9 Church Street: restaurant review 2013-05-19T06:37:02Z Turner, played with blunt, brutish, grunting delicacy by Timothy Spall, is both a genius and an ordinary man, with the usual emotions and appetites. ‘Mr. Turner,’ About the Life of the Artist J. M. W. Turner 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z At Wistariahurst — a historic house museum here — a small playing area and slippery parquet floors made even a blunted weapon a menace. 3 Days in a Van With a Shakespeare Troupe: Daggers and Dunkin’ Donuts 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The moment of slightly farcical drama in Parliament on Tuesday highlighted the contrasting styles of the blunt, combative media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his smooth, Harvard-educated son. Murdoch double act wins over Parliament, investors 2011-07-19T20:28:09Z This “Fargo” is also set in the frozen desolation of rural Minnesota, where whiteout blunts the most savage murders and fevered emotions. Television Review: ‘Fargo,’ a TV Series Riffing on the Film, Begins on FX 2014-04-14T21:28:35Z It’s the sort of blunt, early narrative shock, a triggering incident, as it were, that strongly suggests where the rest of the story will lead. Movie Review: ‘Broken City,’ Directed by Allen Hughes 2013-01-17T15:07:31Z At that point it’s hard for them to hear the blunt person that I am. In ?Walks With Men,? Ann Beattie Returns to the ?80s 2010-06-07T22:12:00Z Mr. McDonagh is fond of face-offs and showdowns, of two people going at it hammer and tongs, sometimes with a touch of philosophy and literal blunt instruments. Review: ‘War on Everyone’ Is Missing Some Crucial Components 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Scattered behind it are incongruously pink reproductions of a computed tomography scan showing blunt force trauma to the head. With ‘Eyes on Iran,’ Artists Bring Protests to Roosevelt Island 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z His psychological transformation, communicated in flashbacks of an incarcerated Banks discovering James Allen’s 1903 self-help essay, “As a Man Thinketh,” is blunt, but effective. ‘Brian Banks’ Review: Falsely Accused, and Fighting Back 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Paintings by Clementine Hunter and Sister Gertrude Morgan, self-taught artists from the South, share a blunt sacredness, whether representing figures at work or prayer. 'Power: Work by African American Women' delivers the voices of 37 artists in one fierce exhibition 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z “The perfect cable news anchor,” Zucker called him in an interview the following year, praising his feisty, blunt interviewing style. With his star status secure at CNN, Chris Cuomo skirts controversy again 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z The wording of Seattle's budget announcement was intentionally blunt to serve as a strong message to a city that should not take its opera's continued existence for granted. Opera companies, notably in Seattle, face money trouble 2012-08-09T00:41:03Z St. Vincent’s albums have been show-offy in the best way: Lean or orchestral, intricate or blunt, they place each song in its own surreal domain. New Music: Beck’s New Album Is ‘Morning Phase’ 2014-02-24T22:48:45Z But he said it was the denigration of his work with Reagan, contrasted with Romney’s past support of Democrats, that prompted him to be so “blunt.” Gingrich: Romney slinging 'sea of mud' 2012-01-26T18:16:00Z On Monday, Jeremy Merdinger took to Twitter to share a photo of the singed blunt that he allegedly found in his sandwich after a few bites. New York man claims to have found joint in Popeyes Chicken Sandwich 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z The film itself is as much a feat of engineering as a work of art, an efficient machine for delivering intricate data and blunt emotions. Review: In ‘Deepwater Horizon,’ Oil, Fire and Greed 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The best-case scenario is that our mitigation efforts blunt that curve so that the peak you keep seeing me showing on television becomes muted to the extent possible. Anthony Fauci: The coronavirus pandemic ‘is not, as it were, under control’ 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z The film is well acted but both blunt and awkward. Beautiful Kate 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z “I wasn’t used to people being that blunt,” Ms. Flores recalled with a laugh. A Quadruple Amputee’s First Vow: To Walk Down the Aisle 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z But even old age doesn’t quite blunt the competitive spirit that drove him into politics and still compels him to drive a speedboat and sky-dive. Television Review: ‘41,’ George H. W. Bush Documentary, on HBO 2012-06-13T22:26:10Z Tom blunts his guilt and boredom with booze swigged straight from the bottle. Review: ‘Good Kill’ Stars Ethan Hawke Fighting Enemies Half a World Away 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The Lebanese director Nadine Labaki’s blunt, satirical fable, “Where Do We Go Now?,” takes place in a rural Middle Eastern village where Christians and Muslims coexist in an uneasy peace. Movie Review: ?Where Do We Go Now?,? From Nadine Labaki 2012-05-10T23:24:34Z But the example of literature's highest achiever does little to blunt the popularity of this line of attack. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z A pun about an "American Idol" contestant's revealingly short outfit may be fun - "Here's to looking up your old address," offered Tyler - but the use of blunt language "turns it into something crass." Steven Tyler to Supreme Court: Watch the language 2012-01-10T12:39:11Z BeReal is blunt but makes its points well: If you spend enough time in spaces that demand you be interesting, you eventually become boring. This New Social App Is Boring, in a Good Way 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z The Black Keys keep their music lean and blunt; it easily scales up to arena size. Music Review: Black Keys and Arctic Monkeys at Madison Square Garden 2012-03-13T22:19:08Z Written, directed and produced by Fuller, “Underworld U.S.A.” initiated the luridly stylized, expertly crafted B-movies — blunt and punchy as a tabloid front page — that make up Fuller’s trilogy of despair. Sam Fuller and Fritz Lang: Audacious Auteurs of Noir 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The aim is both to entertain and to motivate, albeit in the blunt, disaffected manner of the sitcom’s blue-collar household. Live episode of ‘The Conners’ takes on New Hampshire primary 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z His technique, especially in his ceramics, can be simultaneously playful and crude, primitive and ornate, effusive and blunt. New at the Henry Art Gallery: Jeffry Mitchell, Laurie Anderson and more 2012-11-20T21:29:03Z You kind of replay moments in your day when you wish you’d been a little blunter than inevitably you were. David Tennant Stars in ‘Broadchurch’ on BBC America 2013-08-02T19:02:15Z Indeed, Mr. Liautaud was blunt about his motivation for bidding to meet the Edge and bids to meet more than a half-dozen other celebrities. Special Section: Wealth: Charity Auctions Turn to What Cannot Be Bought 2011-10-19T00:17:38Z Others are more blunt: “These artists need to be protected. They need to be supported. This is dire straits right now,” said Tom Kitt, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer. Bread and Cameos — a year without income from Broadway stage 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Moss says the two talked a lot about those issues, and found, as they do with most things, common ground — a way of navigating the world with wry humor and blunt talk. Elisabeth Moss and Alex Ross Perry listen up to some common notes 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Yet Mr. Hennessy’s physical predicament put some spin on the blunt message. Dance Review: Keith Hennessey?s ?Almost? at Abrons Arts Center - Review 2012-01-14T01:00:28Z To be blunt, she is prejudiced against him because he’s white. Carolyn Hax: Sister insults boyfriend, and you’re collateral damage 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z That page also cites “the night the whole mess started,” in a textbook display of Ms. Walls’s blunt way of snagging the reader’s attention. Books of The Times: ‘The Silver Star,’ a Novel by Jeannette Walls 2013-05-29T20:54:36Z This brief stretch of the movie is its best: life-size, attuned to everyday urban realities, and bravely blunt in its portrayal of prejudice. ‘Toofaan’ Review: Raising a Storm 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z It’s a situation that can’t end well, and it doesn’t under the blunt and forceful direction of William A. Wellman, who drives the film to its stunningly bleak conclusion in a thrifty 73 minutes. DVD: Dorothy Mackaill?s ?Safe in Hell? and Others on DVD 2012-01-08T01:38:11Z To ask the blunt question, is this a gimmick? Marvel Editor Explains How Captain America Was a Hydra Agent All Along 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Her new book is blunt: Nothing in modern life prepares us for the leaving of it. Barbara Ehrenreich Urges Us to Accept, Accept the Dying of the Light 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Although reports differ as to how exactly she was pulled under the water, the autopsy report revealed she died of drowning and blunt force trauma. 'Blackfish' documentary dives into killer whale captivity 2013-07-18T21:58:39Z “Blood Father” is a tight, blunt 88 minutes of hard talk, fired bullets and spit-shined genre conventions. Review: In ‘Blood Father,’ Mel Gibson Plays With Pulp Fiction 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Trying to drive more than 1,200 miles in two days is — let me be blunt — stupid! Away Is Home | When you’re on vacation, don’t try to do it all at once 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z At the same time, Villeneuve is making a movie in a Marvel-dominated industry that foregrounds obviousness and blunt action sequences over ambiguity and introspection. ‘Dune’ Review: A Hero in the Making, on Shifting Sands 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z After three hours, variations on the same basic message start to blunt the impact despite the best of intentions. 'Tom,' a new take on Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic, at Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z A lot happens in the just under 500 pages of this novel, and Homes keeps the pages turning swiftly with a blunt writing style and a relentless flair for the absurd. Unsettling 'May We Be Forgiven' not for everyone 2012-09-26T11:41:08Z There is not a lot of socio-politically provocative art to be found in this vast maze of art shops — not of the blunt, direct kind, anyway. Art Review | 'The Armory Show': Ahoy From Nudes, a Pirate and Scrooge McDuck 2010-03-04T23:28:00Z Traylor set up shop there, outside a pool hall, drawing with his blunt instruments and available paper and sleeping in the coffin storage room of a nearby funeral home. ‘Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts’ Review: He Made a ‘Pill for the Pain’ 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The goal with communication strategies is not to change your personality or become an emotionless robot; some of us are more blunt, others are more passive — and that’s all fine. 6 Ways to Become a Better Communicator 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z She is blunt and to the point; funny as well as self-appraising. The weird world of Alice Neel 2010-07-07T20:30:00Z “The phrasing is rudely blunt,” he adds, and “the scenes cut back and forth between hero and villain with brutal efficiency.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z But ask the British director what defines a G.R.F. and you get a blunt answer: “It’s impossible.” Guy Ritchie Cracks the Spy Genre with 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The New York Times called it “a furious, funny, blunt and brilliant confrontation with the truth. It’s an alarm clock ringing in the midst of a historical nightmare.” Spike Lee hopes Trump watches KKK film 'BlacKkKlansman' 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Then they asked the 16 participants two blunt questions: What does America need to know about religion? Faith and Politics, a Rocky Romance 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z The beatings she takes here, filmed by Kusama with the kind of blunt, unfetishised frankness that male action directors rarely direct at female protagonists, are entirely startling. Changing face: how Nicole Kidman gets under the skin in Destroyer 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z As a way of pondering her parents’ demises, Cross has drawn ancient weapons — spiked, curved, jagged and blunt. Review | In the galleries: Artistic reflections on what mortality leaves behind 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The polish and drive of the director Gary Griffin’s revival of this familiar piece of serious-minded British musical theater almost make you forget those wince-inducing lyrics, the blunt point making and often sketchy storytelling. Christopher Plummer in Stratford, Ontario 2010-07-09T04:28:00Z Simpson trial recontextualizes that history, “National Anthem” blunts the edges of the players’ protests, leaving us free to examine them anew. 8 Things to Do This Fourth of July Weekend 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Though it is, in large part, a study in denial, its dialogue is often unnecessarily blunt in drawing historical parallels and pointing out characters’ hypocrisies. Review: In ‘The Ruins of Civilization,’ a Bleak Future, Brightly Told 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z If “The Wire” had one political message — I don’t mean theme; if it just had a blunt political argument about policy — it was, “End the drug war.” ‘The Wire’ at 20: ‘This Show Will Live Forever’ 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s a purposely blunt work, a radio-play version of Mr. Glass’s operatic style, smartly suited to the fable-like nature of the underlying tale. The Best of Philip Glass’s (Many) Operas After ‘Akhnaten’ 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Berlin’s writing is blunt, syncopated — almost offhandedly offering small, arresting details and pared-down images. Review | Two new books bring Lucia Berlin back to life 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Burns and Novick’s film doesn’t come out and say so in a blunt way, but you’d be a fool not to pick up on the echoes. Review | Yes, America, PBS’s ‘The Vietnam War’ is required viewing — all 18 hours of it 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z But there’s so little texture to the acting here that the passions stirring inside the characters remain opaque or are indicated in overly blunt outline. Taylor Schilling and Peter Dinklage in ‘A Month in the Country’ 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Then, around age twenty-five, I had the blunt experience of looking at my bookshelves and noticing that my bookshelves were filled almost exclusively with books by men. The Only Thing I Envy Men 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z She has a tendency to forget the names of extremely famous people, and describes them in blunt terms: “Jewish white guy,” she said, reaching for a comic she enjoys. How Robyn, Pop’s Glittery Rebel, Danced Her Way Back From Darkness 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z “But they’re from, like, this part,” Luger said, motioning with his blunt at the well-manicured landscape passing outside the car — nice public pools, churches, white people watering their lawns. Lex Luger Can Write a Hit Rap Song in the Time It Takes to Read This 2011-11-04T17:42:52Z But Gunch is foul-mouthed, blunt and curious about more than just God. ‘The Collision’ and ‘The Martyrdom’ Review: A Nun Ahead of Her Time 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Competition with irregulars no longer provoked the same anxiety and financial peril, even if it seemingly did little to blunt professional handwringing over irregular practice. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z Television Neil Genzlinger Any parent of a disabled child has one blunt, inescapable concern: “If I die before she does, who will care for her?” The Week Ahead: Feb. 19 ? 25 2012-02-17T15:52:59Z East Coast slickness meets heartland folksiness in “Irresistible,” a political satire so broad and blunt that it flattens every joke and deflates every setup. ‘Irresistible’ Review: The Voters Are Red, the Message Is Blue 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The theatrical production shares the blunt title of the documentary — “Lombardi” — as if any title that stretched for metaphor or cleverness would have been an affront to its subject’s plainspoken oratory. | 'Lombardi': Leadership on the Field Made Him a Legend 2010-12-10T23:30:00Z Campbell’s blunt delivery of the former often conflicts with his deeply felt recollections of the latter, but what is lost in his uneven performance is more than made up for by his vulnerability. Review: Laughing, and Crying, in the Face of ‘Grief’ 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z One producer who declined to meet with her, she said, was blunt. Oscar Rewind: When Rita Moreno Made History and Thanked No One 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Sometimes those reminders were direct, and blunt, such as the tombstone on display at the Lincoln presidential museum in Springfield that remembered the Lincolns’ son Eddie, who died just before his fourth birthday. Road to Recovery 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z As the scene unfolds, “Albert’s language becomes a lot more blunt and forthright.” | Connecticut: ‘Clybourne Park,’ at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven 2013-05-25T00:50:19Z In these films, the deaths, which are frequent, are hard and fast and blunt, a marked departure from the intricately stylized and ornately edited set pieces of his earlier work. From ‘Goodfellas’ to ‘Flower Moon’: How Scorsese Has Rethought Violence 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Or that it was widely viewed within black cultural circles as an insult, a blunt assertion by the white establishment that African-American art wasn’t good enough to show. What I Learned From a Disgraced Art Show on Harlem 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z With "Snagglepuss" and "The Flintstones" before it, what I really tried to do was be as blunt as possible with myself and in my writing. Snagglepuss, LGBT hero: Legendary Hanna-Barbera character reborn in new comic series 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z The sight of village fishermen in Ghana hauling in plastic garbage prompted Schneider to release “Stop Plastic Pollution,” with lyrics as blunt as its title. Florian Schneider’s 10 Essential Songs, in Kraftwerk and Beyond 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z There are blunt criteria set out in the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” or DSM-5, but they require finessing in person. Duty to warn: Shrinks can’t say that Donald Trump suffers from a mental disorder — but we can 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Furst is better at establishing Salonika’s subjugation to the Ottoman Empire than he is at making what, for him, are atypically blunt sexual innuendoes. Books of The Times: Wartime Greece in Alan Furst?s ?Spies of the Balkans? 2010-06-16T22:08:00Z While it’s not recommended to take medications before your appointment to ward off side effects because that may blunt the immune response, Schaffner suggested planning for the possibility that you might not feel well. Yes, you can get a COVID booster and a flu shot together. Here’s what you need to know. 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z This helps blunt Huber’s suggestion of austerity: The new architecture is lean more as a result of finding strength in basic but substantial forms than in defiantly going without. Boring architecture? Yes, please 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Cox, meanwhile, was much more blunt about it when questioned about the elusive reunion: “it’s not going to happen.” Aniston and Kudrow’s “Kimmel” reunion: The best “Friends” appearances on late-night TV 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z A Stand-Up Comedian Walks Into Some Sketches Published: October 11, 2010 Nick Swardson wields comedy like a blunt instrument: the harder he swings, the funnier he is. | 'Nick Swardson?s Pretend Time': A Stand-Up Comedian Walks Into Some Sketches 2010-10-11T21:32:00Z Ms. Marrero is the find, giving her blunt, brainy character an appealing pithiness. Review: Inventing a Better Bitcoin in ‘StartUp,’ New on Crackle 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z There was no announcement from the stage, only the blunt white slip indicating the role of Macbeth would be sung by Zeljko Lucic, “replacing Plácido Domingo.” Review: Plácido Domingo Is Gone, but He Still Haunted ‘Macbeth’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The plot delivers a couple of satisfying surprises for the audience, but the blunt ending would benefit from a little more stagecraft. Review: ‘A Queen for a Day’ Excavates Crime Family Secrets 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z But notice the plaids, a bit too blunt. | Gant Rugger: Gant Rugger ? Critical Shopper 2011-10-05T22:02:05Z The cutting of the lino shows no flourish of finesse: these are blunt, almost amateur, pictures, carried off with some kids’ Christmas craft kit, of subjects with no apparent aesthetic value. Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures 2012-11-08T12:00:00Z “Every wedding I’ve done is the most normal thing ever, so this is quite the experience to be photographing people literally smoking a blunt at their wedding,” photog Rachel Artime, 24, says. Bride and groom smoke from personalized wedding bongs during ceremony 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Q. The book is composed as a letter to your teenage son, and as a blunt warning to him about the physical risks of being an African-American man in this country. Ta-Nehisi Coates: ‘I Don’t Want to Be Anybody’s Expert’ 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z A lot of humans-against-nature shows get bogged down in expert commentary, but this one, when it does bring in a specialist, keeps the remarks short and very blunt. The Week Ahead: Jan. 9 ? 15 2011-01-07T17:43:18Z He was an activist, she was a political scientist; he was savvy and strategic, she was blunt and didn’t care whether people liked her or not. She loved Marion Barry, she married him — but don’t call Cora Masters Barry a widow A French diplomat was more blunt:“Whatever disagreements we may have with Iran we want to keep and develop a cultural relationship with Iranian society.” In Iran, France blends hard talks with soft power at Louvre exhibit 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Emotional developments are delivered in blunt strokes, and often allowed no more than a sentence. Thomas Berger’s Egoless Fictions 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Braids, from Montreal, played rhapsodic songs, with stretches of tinkling Minimalism cresting in rock and surprisingly blunt lyrics, that reward long attention spans. Critic?s Notebook: Bands Dream Globally, Play Locally 2010-10-24T23:00:00Z They feel like they come from another show, in which the dialogue and the actions are blunter. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: Hunger Games 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Joe, as you might gather, is something of a blunt instrument. Theater Review: ‘Basilica,’ by Mando Alvarado, at the Cherry Lane Theater 2013-05-24T02:00:01Z Beau Buffier, the chief of the New York Attorney General’s Antitrust Bureau, was blunter in assessing whether the government had done enough to ensure a vital ticketing marketplace. Live Nation Rules Music Ticketing, Some Say With Threats 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z If we’re paying attention, though, people actually tell us exactly how blunt we need to be with them — in how they receive our messages. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Setting ground rules for babysitting without seeming anti-Auntie 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z His family had butchered hogs, with the young Dean whacking them over the head with the blunt end of an ax. Singer, sausage businessman Jimmy Dean dies at 81 2010-06-14T03:14:00Z In a blunt, eloquent and devastating Op-Ed essay in The New York Times in February, Dr. Oliver Sacks revealed that cancer in his liver had left him with only months to live. Review: Oliver Sacks Looks at His Life in ‘On the Move’ 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z A former Times employee was blunt: “I think this is a catastrophe for the New York Times. I know a lot of people who feel that way.” A star reporter’s resignation, a racial slur and a newsroom divided: Inside the fallout at the New York Times 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z The symbolism is blunt, and the film’s style, striking and severe. ‘Will-o’-the-Wisp’ Review: A Prince Throws Off His Privilege 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z These extraordinary blunt and vital words are so much a part of the British psyche. Gary Oldman and Joe Wright on Winston Churchill — as an icon and a man 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Whether or not Mr. Panter has a point about the union-driven costs on Broadway, his blunt style and preoccupation with dollars and pounds have made him a divisive figure in the theater world. An Empire Where the Curtain Would Not Fall 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Renner, 51, suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries and underwent surgery Monday, Sam Mast said in an email. Jeremy Renner in ‘critical but stable’ condition after snowplow accident 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Schumann’s wife, Clara, was blunter in private, calling Liszt’s compositions tasteless and “a chaos of dissonances.” Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z There is a fatalism to Richmond’s approach, however, that eventually blunts the production’s edge. The assassins are back in Folger’s spooky ‘Caesar’ I’m happy to confirm that the use of earplugs does nothing to blunt an experience of this sound artist’s thoughtful, forceful arrangements. Review: An Artist’s Transporting Sounds (Blindfold Optional) 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z It’s the most daringly inventive of the offerings, but an overuse of satirical meta-theatrics blunts the evening’s impact. Review | A theater festival in the bucolic countryside, but boiling underneath 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Yet his matter-of-fact poems pushed past blunt force and pat observation. An Appraisal: The Poet Philip Levine, an Outsider Archiving the Forgotten 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Some will be blunt and disruptive like Uber, and some will be slow through government changes. “Some folks believe blockchain will save the universe”: Inside Alex Winter’s “Trust Machi... 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z It’s a movie “that is by turns startling and generic, subtle and blunt, and consistently keeps you in its grip if not its heart,” Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in April. New on DVD: ?X-Men: First Class,? ?Scarface,? ?Hanna? 2011-09-04T02:53:02Z What the critics say: "Less a war movie than a western — the story of a lone gunslinger facing down his nemesis in a dusty, lawless place — it is blunt and effective, though also troubling." Oscars 2015: Best picture nominees 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z “He’s able to call people out in a pretty blunt way that gets their attention,” Twardokens says. Mr. CrossFit vs. Big Soda: A profane fitness guru’s wonky war with the soda industry 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z Stella is an enigma, a woman who seems cold and emotionless yet thinks nothing of issuing a blunt invitation to an officer she has just met to come to her bed, which he does. Television Review: Gillian Anderson in ‘The Fall,’ on Netflix From BBC2 2013-06-10T21:44:49Z But in case you're under the illusion that this somehow means mainstream culture co-signed Boyega's blunt realness, here's what one respondent had to tell him. John Boyega spoke out against racism, but Hollywood has punished actors for that in the past 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z But then as a teenager he began writing down his father's quips, foul-mouthed pearls of wisdom and blunt advice in notebooks. Twitter's biggest star is a man in his 70s 2010-07-03T08:42:00Z Tom Cipullo marshals the four singers for a blunt comic piece about the depredations of one route in “G Is for Grimy: An Ode to the G Train.” Music Review: In ?Five Borough Songbook,? 20 Composers Show N.Y. - Review 2012-01-15T20:56:39Z Foster emulates her blunt haircut, power suits and steely determination. 'Elysium' delivers action, destruction and a deeper message on life 2013-08-07T17:44:45Z The evening’s compere, Mary Hart of Entertainment Tonight, put it in more blunt terms. Matt Damon lobbies for Ridley Scott's first directing Oscar at Palm Springs gala 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z The neediness and blunt self-expression that often attends her characters, Ms. Griffiths said, are qualities that she remembered stifling for years after her father abandoned the family, leading to her parents’ divorce. Rachel Griffiths Joining ?Other Desert Cities? 2011-10-09T02:57:18Z Less a war movie than a western — the story of a lone gunslinger facing down his nemesis in a dusty, lawless place — it is blunt and effective, though also troubling. ‘American Sniper,’ a Clint Eastwood Film Starring Bradley Cooper 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z And OK, yes, the blunt fact of the matter is that by design, the Hitachi is going to be able to stimulate in a way that even the most ardent, talented lover can’t. Is my vibrator ruining my relationship? 2012-12-29T23:00:00Z As the soundbite-frenzied media descended in the wake of the dramatic rescue, it was local Good Samaritan and Big Mac aficionado Charles Ramsey who brought an earthy levity – and blunt racial context — to the proceedings. Charles Ramsey, hero and viral superstar 2013-05-07T16:49:00Z But it does blunt the knife, so to speak. Trump backs off states that legalize marijuana: So why is Colorado still prohibiting access to some? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z “The criminal law is too blunt an instrument.” For One Bill Cosby Juror, the Work Did Not End With the Trial 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z But “Soul Doctor,” which features Carlebach’s original music, with lyrics by David Schechter and a book by the show’s director, Daniel S. Wise, lays out Carlebach’s journey in mostly blunt, often hoary strokes. Theater Review: ‘Soul Doctor,’ a Musical About Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach 2013-08-16T02:00:40Z Art directors and designers say they’ve never been given blunt directives to be more elementary. The Incredible, Inevitable Shrinking Album Cover 2011-08-12T19:14:22Z Mr. Jacobs establishes the blunt facts of his existence in the very first shot: Terri naked and spilling out of a tub, while his uncle nags him to clean the bathroom. Creating an Adolescence for the Ages 2011-06-25T23:33:02Z Not to be blunt, but as an actor, that’s my job, play parts that are different. Ladies and Gentlemen, Daniel Craig 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z When Mr. Green played Madison Square Garden recently, opening for Prince, he didn’t even sing his blunt chorus. On the Pop Charts, Singing the Unspeakable 2011-03-15T16:00:06Z Speaking with the eloquent conviction and blunt resolve of a woman who never compromised, Dane called the F.B.I. file a waste of tax dollars. Barbara Dane’s Life of Defiance and Song 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z “There’s a continual denial that we even exist,” a soft-spoken but blunt Davidson says. In making art, Haida culture is revived 2013-11-25T23:26:01Z Rather it deals with loss in a blunt, aching way. In her new memoir, Elizabeth Alexander deals with loss of her spouse 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z In an interview, Mr. Shankar said Apu was a “fabricated archetype, and it’s been carved into the American, and really the global, consciousness with blunt force.” ‘Simpsons’ Creator Says of Apu Criticism, ‘People Love to Pretend They’re Offended’ 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z For a rapper who has blended fantasy and autobiography in thrilling ways, this might be her most blunt transcription of reality. What we talk about when we talk about Nicki Minaj, ‘The Pinkprint’ and pop music as conversation fuel 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z At “Weekend Update,” he said he was “doing a specific experiment, where I was trying to strip all cleverness from the joke and try and make it as blunt as possible.” Norm Macdonald Rises Again on Comedy Central ?Sports Show? 2011-04-05T15:46:02Z As reported in March, Snoop's 12th studio album sees the 40-year-old hip-hop star trading guns and blunts for dreads and blunts. Snoop Dogg to release reggae album as Snoop Lion 2012-07-23T10:00:00Z The left, to be blunt, has something to conserve. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z Ebert was certainly a friend to all, but he was also markedly blunt. Editing Roger Ebert: A Former Colleague Reflects on the Journalism Legend 2013-04-04T21:43:30Z It helps that she is stylish and by all accounts funny, blunt and undazzled by star wattage. Queen of divorce: Angelina Jolie hires expert in separating Hollywood royalty 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z It can feel its own acuity, its ability to question, doubt, analyse, imagine, worry, fear and ceaselessly sense its own mortality, being blunted – in starchy, sugary stupidity lies its chance of contentment. Fast food: the reason behind our national incompetence 2012-10-06T23:06:03Z But atop it all Katy B sings smoothly and sweetly, not dashing in and out in between the moving parts, but spreading out evenly, blunting their impact. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-04T22:04:46Z There were depression and anxiety, and drinking to blunt the anxiety and depression, and there were visits to doctors, who had disparate diagnoses of “manic depression,” “obsessive-compulsive disorder” and “borderline personality disorder.” Books of The Times: ?Blue Nights,? by Joan Didion ? Review 2011-10-31T18:26:44Z Instead of cuing her as you would others, as if she’d get it, embrace the chance to be blunt. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: If I can get a word in edgewise, what should it be? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z And that is the point: The video is an incitement for its viewers, a blunt provocation for them to act. The Mosul Museum video from Islamic State could be a staged drama 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Now he’s an irritant with a cause, a hammer in a world full of nails, and Ruffalo plays him with blunt, barking energy. REVIEW: The Normal Heart 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Dry vermouth, born across the border in France, is in blunt contrast to its predecessor: light in color, slightly herbal and dry. Make Vermouth the Star 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Ms. Ringwald, who has a reasonably strong voice and blunt style of syncopation, displayed a reliable sense of pitch but showed little interest in sounding demure or coy. Molly Ringwald Sings at Café Carlyle 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Maillot’s choreography is indeed animated by a preoccupation with primal desires and impulses, which often give a blunt, contemporary dance look to his primarily balletic lines. Jean-Christophe Maillot Brings ‘Lac’ to City Center 2014-03-13T22:17:53Z This blunt, uncharacteristically violent development is true to the source material, but it’s a bummer and a blown opportunity both narratively and in terms of how the male and female characters work. Movie Review: Andrew Garfield Returns in ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ 2014-05-01T12:00:02Z The members of Drury’s extended cast trade blunt and tender dialogue, revealing the perils and pleasures of intimacy among people yoked by kinship or proximity or both. Dear Match Book: Funny Pages 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z This blunt axiom undercuts the tendency to read too much into the more earnest and personal episodes related in the book, those homely accounts of the author’s early life in rural New Zealand. In Essays About Bodily Ailments and Other Conditions, Clues to Writing — and Life 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z But it also blunts criticism that Mr. Rockwell’s work is solely for a white audience. Reimagining Norman Rockwell’s America 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z He sat down to roll a blunt from a pouch of weed, and thought about his trajectory. A Trip Home With Moneybagg Yo, Trap’s New Ambassador 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z She employed excess like a blunt utensil, bludgeoning the senses again and again. Review: Miley Cyrus’s World of Excess 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z It would be hard to overstate how blunt, heavy-handed and trite are the works in “Historic Photographs,” the first solo museum exhibition by the 85-year-old Mr. Metzger in the United States. Art Review: If It?s About Atrocity, Does That Make It Good? 2011-06-16T20:47:42Z But the Italian is blunt, and the French is sharp. ‘Don Carlo’ or ‘Don Carlos’? Verdi Comes to the Met in French 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z One member of the panel—Julie King—said that she would add “Lives in Ruins” to her students’ reading list simply for its blunt portrayal of the difficulty of the job search. Graves and Garbage: The Hard Life of an Archeologist 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Lee snipped the entire section, and despite the blunt edit, the shorter final cut, which premieres on Sept. 11, actually flows better. Is 9/11 a Day, or Is It an Era? 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z It did not blunt the impact of the music, though. Rage Against the Machine, Roaring On 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z The three-story set, with dozens of mostly shuttered doors, is blunt and uninviting. Review: A Singer’s Strong Return in a Drab ‘Don Giovanni’ 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z They are blunt and clear, not being burdened with an overload of pesky footnotes. Books of The Times: ‘Killing Kennedy’ by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard 2012-10-10T21:54:31Z The key was to embrace, not blunt, the specifics — specifics that in the end we couldn’t blunt anyway. Modern Love: Embracing Marriage, Flaws and All 2012-01-26T21:45:54Z Mr. Mangum’s songs are musically blunt — usually a few hard-strummed chords driving the ornery holler of his voice — but subject to metamorphosis. Music Review: Reunited, Neutral Milk Hotel Plays in Jersey City 2014-01-15T22:52:40Z At 6, Britton’s youngest daughter is curious and blunt, and tends to ask big questions: What happens when we die? The ‘sandwich generation’ quandary was hard on baby boomers. It’s going to be harder on their kids. 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z But it turned out Savage had more insight to share than contempt, and his trademark blunt, explicit advice has continued to resonate. 6 Advice Podcasts to Navigate the Weirdness of Daily Life 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Eventually, we see blunt imagery like Benjamin Franklin’s face on a burning $100 bill and a shot of the Statue of Liberty. Movie Review: ‘2016: Obama’s America,’ Directed by Dinesh D’Souza 2012-08-12T22:09:29Z Hill knew Bolton’s legend as a hard-nosed, blunt, impatient bulldozer of a man, so what she saw came as a bit of a shock: He was being patient and charming. John Bolton’s been a political brawler for decades, but his rumble with Donald Trump is extreme — even for him. 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Knuckles isn’t a big talker, but when he does speak, he’s very blunt. Idris Elba, Gamer (That’s Why He Was So Keen on ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’) 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z McQueen’s visual grammar often entails staging a violent sequence with blunt, brutal verisimilitude, then lingering on the aftermath in queasy silence. Perspective | In a year of Black Death, the movies showed us Black Life 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The book quotes Jacqueline Kennedy’s blunt evaluations of existing conditions: a corridor with hospital-green carpeting reminded her of a “dentist’s office bomb shelter.” 5 Design Books That Are Easy on the Eyes 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Instead Hynde offers a story of coming of age in the heartland's baby-boom bust, with sometimes brutal passages told in her inimitable blunt, jocular and occasionally woefully tone-deaf vernacular. There's no pretending in Chrissie Hynde's spare, deft memoir 'Reckless' 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Sometimes those edges are too blunted, particularly in how the movie deals with power. ‘Charm City Kings’ Review: Growing Up, and Almost Spinning Out 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The rowdiness of the city is conveyed in summary, in blunt statements — “Violence made this city”; “we were London’s scowling youth” — and only rarely staged or subverted. A Debut Novel Unfolds Over 48 Tense Hours in London 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The show’s first scene, in particular, is didactically blunt in its discussion of women’s rights, or the lack thereof. Review: ‘A Brief History of Women,’ an Alan Ayckbourn Comedy of Tragedies 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Rankine, born in Jamaica and raised in Kingston and New York, is blunt and thoughtful, not unlike her work. Poet Claudia Rankine ruminates on the body politic in 'Citizen' 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Pelosi’s endorsement is widely seen as a reaction to the Globe and as the lifeline the congressman needed to blunt Markey’s momentum. The Markey-Kennedy Senate primary battle is one Democrats wish wasn’t happening 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Turning Down a Babysitter: Knowing how blunt to be is tough for most of us to navigate. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Setting ground rules for babysitting without seeming anti-Auntie 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Hers is the kind of blunt historical realism that scares an Oscar voter into more “Gandhi,” and more “Green Book.” The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Those sorts of elisions, combined with a contrived ending straight out of a “Twilight Zone” rerun, blunt much of the play's essential horror – a shame, considering the obvious potential of Petti's otherwise gripping drama. One family's cry of the 'Banshee' at Theatre of NOTE 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Even the contemporary “The Patient” borrows its most blunt power from flashbacks to the moral simplicity of concentration camps. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Rai’s performance is a marvel — blunt and subtle at the same time, as committed to the character’s failings as to her virtues. ‘Fire in the Mountains’ Review: The Mother of All Struggles 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Ali's friend Bob Coleman was blunter: "It's a white song. It's your song." The corrupt nostalgia of “My Old Kentucky Home” 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Harold Holzer, the author of more than four dozen books about Lincoln and a member of the project’s advisory board, was more blunt. Lincoln’s Papers Find a Familiar Spot: In the Middle and in Jeopardy 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The blunt emphasis on embellished trench coats and leather jackets caused some critics to complain of crass commerce — and obviously there needs to be a balance between commerce and creativity. On the Runway: Beyond Twitter: What's Next for Designers in 2011 2010-12-23T16:11:34Z It’s great and written in a direct, blunt style appropriate for the subject. Bill Clinton: By the Book 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Spending 148 days off the air blunted the scalpels of some more than others. Let there be late night: A report card on the hosts' return episodes, some better than others 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z Kelly came at Putin with blunt force, questioning him about the war in Syria and allegations about hacking, leading him to eventually quip, "Maybe someone has a pill that will stop this." Barbara Walters knew we wanted the juice 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Having experienced his share of triumph and failure, Mr. Goldwyn, 55, is blunt about the film business and the culture of hit-making that still defines it. ‘Walter Mitty’ Producer John Goldwyn Feels the Pressure 2013-12-23T22:57:14Z “Enemy” is a blunt, stomping, bitter breakup song — “I’d rather be your enemy/Than fade away like a childhood friend” — with a hint of Appalachia in its modal melody. Lou Reed’s Folky Velvet Underground Demo, and 9 More New Songs 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Even among Democrats, this is the kind of blunt point you often hear in private, but rarely on Sunday-morning television shows. Hating Hillary Clinton: Female Comics Skewer the Sexism of the Likability Trap 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Even the dramatic images of daring helicopter rescues of stranded people from rooftops are blunted by stories of police corruption, and worse, that followed. The TV Watch: 5 Years on, Katrina Dampens Coverage 2010-08-27T21:58:00Z My gripe is, why do people have to be so nosy and blunt about my condition? Perspective | Ask Amy: New parents go dark with happy news 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Her new book, “Funeral Diva,” a blend of poetry and memoir, arrives as a bleak and blunt response to Harris’s question, some 30 years later. ‘Funeral Diva,’ a Mix of Memoir and Poetry, Stirs the Body and Mind 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z As they rolled blunts and tossed a football around Moore and Mock's driveway, the harsh afternoon sun beat down in their eyes. Underground music hero Delroy Edwards fosters an above-board approach 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Director David Leitch got the job by championing this blunt approach. Charlize Theron Is Here to Save Us From Boring Action Movies 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z He was blunt and unpretentious, wholly without conceit. Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z It may be too blunt, or too short, or something is off — so you have to ask yourself why it’s interesting. Guido Palau’s Good Hair Days 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Does this help to blunt the disappointment of being overlooked by the Academy Awards? The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Embraces N.W.A, and Ice Cube Is Cool With It 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z An autopsy Saturday determined Christopher died of multiple blunt force injuries from child abuse and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. Autopsy: Boy dies of child abuse on birthday 2011-11-27T01:46:00Z They ran him through with his own blunt pitchfork. George Craig: Shuttered Windows 2011-07-22T22:02:01Z Ms. Tuvel’s paper is squarely in the tradition of analytic philosophy, an approach that focuses on clarifying concepts and that relies on blunt logical analysis and sometimes outlandish-seeming hypotheticals and analogies. A Defense of ‘Transracial’ Identity Roils Philosophy World 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z What linked Ms. Previn to the flourishing singer-songwriter movement were her starkly autobiographical lyrics, in which she described mental instability, fears and fantasies, sometimes wittily and at other times with a blunt, almost scary directness. Dory Previn, as Portrayed by Kate Dimbleby 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z It's thrilling when a comedy that systematically blunted any sharp edges it once possessed starts drawing blood again. Fear and hugging at Dunder-Mifflin 2011-09-23T14:01:00Z But her blunt reality-check speech to Mags radically expands our access to this complex, difficult woman. Theater Review: Kathleen Chalfant and John Cunningham in ?Painting Churches? 2012-03-07T03:00:16Z Elsewhere the prose is unadorned, even blunt, particularly in the sections where the opaque languages of medicine and bureaucracy flood — infiltrate would be too weak a word — Tom’s voice. As a Daughter Is Born, a Young Mother Dies 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z There are writerly hands in which such a device, with all its clear invocations of the South’s racial history, might rapidly prove blunt and insufferable. Jesmyn Ward's 'Sing, Unburied, Sing’ is multivocal and haunting 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z He advocates a form of eerie storytelling that he says Hollywood abandoned long ago in favor of blunt scare tactics. A Kingmaker in the Realm of Cheapie Horror 2011-04-16T02:13:01Z In the video, which premiered on BuzzFeed, she delivers a blunt kiss-off to a tattooed ex-lover with few redeeming qualities: “Hate your friends and your family too / So breaking up was easy to do.” Watch Charli XCX's New 'Breaking Up' Video 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z And Trump’s potential criticism of her has already been blunted. Oprah for president? A far-fetched idea just got dramatically more real 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z The blunt, fearless Kathryn embraces her new job with a gusto that immediately raises eyebrows among her cynical co-workers, who look down at the Eastern Europeans they have been charged to help. | 'The Whistleblower': American in Bosnia Discovers the Horrors of Human Trafficking 2011-08-04T21:18:52Z She often approximated the middle pitches in a phrase, which blunted the impact of the delicate Wolf miniatures like “Begegnung.” Review | Likability is one thing. Artistic communication is another. 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z His blunt compositions strive to hold both together. Forrest Bess and Joan Snyder paintings shine in a show that gets past the dark history 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z At close range, here in Paris, with the conceit of a diplomatic summit, Mr. Browne’s uniformity owed less to the United States as Camelot than to the blunt aesthetic of an East German housing block. Fashion Review: In Paris, the Wimp Effect Takes Hold 2010-06-29T22:42:00Z Fiona Griffiths, a police detective in Cardiff, Wales, is blunt, defiantly blue collar, slightly unhinged, and with few social graces — but with great compassion for life's victims. September crime fiction: UK authors on the case 2012-09-05T22:53:04Z But in Mr. Bradshaw’s “Job” God’s motives are as simple, blunt and opaque as those of the mortals he created in his image. Theater Review: ‘Job,’ at the Flea Theater 2012-09-20T02:00:00Z Like the Berlin Wall before it, it is conceived in primitive terms, as a blunt instrument for division. For architects, Trump's wall reveals as much as it promises to close off 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z "Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt," Hathaway said. Golden Globes 2013: Les Miserables wins three awards 2013-01-14T04:48:46Z Sometimes, these images are too blunt or artificial. Review | ‘Native Son’ gets a 90-minute stage adaptation, with a Black Rat in Bigger’s ear 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Nagging, wheedling, needling, needy or demanding moms — often of the Jewish persuasion, it must be said — have been an endlessly fertile resource for comedy writers, the mother lode if you will permit a blunt pun. | 'Relatively Speaking': ?Relatively Speaking? at Brooks Atkinson Theater ? Review 2011-10-21T02:01:14Z Amazon has sought to blunt some of that competitive pressure by partnering with Paddle8, an online auction site, among other players. ArtsBeat: Amazon Expands to Sell Art Online 2013-08-06T18:43:53Z “The style had a blunt, astringent quality which suited me. And it was a Gospel of action, not teaching, one which had plenty of episodes and dwelt on none for too long.” Alec McCowen, British Actor Who Played Saint and Fool, Dies at 91 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z On “Murder to Excellence” he’s more blunt: “Only spot a few blacks the higher I go/What’s up to Will, shout-out to O.” Arts & Leisure: Two Titans Share The Seat of Power 2011-08-09T19:00:08Z “And then these people just shove them in their mouths after smoking a fat blunt.” Where’s the Party? Ask Benny Blanco. 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Unlike the typically blunt, garish and overdetermined American movies for children, the best of these films leave room for a young viewer’s own imagination to play. Critic’s Notebook: Festival of Gkids Films at IFC Center 2013-12-19T22:40:06Z Literature and the novel are being brought under control by various subtle pressures; certain subjects are blunted and made into media-style copy before being accepted. İnci Aral: The future of the novel 2013-02-28T14:00:02Z Debates were spirited, reviews were blunt — one inmate called a book “exceptionally boring.” From Behind Bars, Inmates Award France’s Latest Book Prize 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Crooked’s success also raises an interesting prospect: if blunt, earthy “straight talk” helped elect Donald Trump, then another kind of straight talk—wonkish, profane, and highly strategic—might help get us out of this mess. “The Wilderness,” Reviewed: Can a Partisan Podcast Save the Democratic Party? 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z You need only look at the career of George Romero, who imbued his zombie movies with blunt social commentary on consumerism, race and Cold War militarism. Why Are We Ashamed to Call ‘Get Out’ and ‘The Shape of Water’ Horror Films? 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Clinton's blunt charm goes hand-in-hand with an impressive sang-froid, in her telling. Hillary Clinton's 'Hard Choices' makes for compelling reading 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z The new book is bloated and unwieldy, however; it lacks the blunt power of its predecessor, which was stark and swift, flensed of artifice. In Yiyun Li’s Latest, a Grieving Mother Desperately Clings to Memory 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Your politician characters wield words — from the profane to the lofty — as both blunt weapons and as sharp instruments. From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Even with all the local rosé blunting our perceptions, you have to admit it’s been some way below par. Cannes 2015, week two report: perfect Pixar but Gus goes gooey 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Instead of comfort or redemption, they offer blunt, truth, which becomes its own kind of beauty. New York Film Festival Offers Quiet Treasures and a Little Jazz 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z What used to be paranoia — the idea, say, that your electronic appliances are spying on you — looks nowadays like blunt realism. Review: ‘Snowden,’ Oliver Stone’s Restrained Portrait of a Whistle-Blower 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z She was direct but funny, blunt but charming. Janelle James Loves Being a Bad Boss in ‘Abbott Elementary’ 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z It bothered me being someone who studied it more seriously to see it be so blunt. Great Gatsby: what high school book should Baz Luhrmann take on next? Open thread 2013-05-15T16:02:44Z Bob is so considerate of all angles, so careful with every word, that he’d come across as calculating if he weren’t also blunt and talkative. The chaos of the Olympics has arrived. Fortunately, we have Bob Costas. 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z In this one he says that Sir Alan Sugar, a Trumpesque English businessman, has a “blunt insolence peculiar to all barrow-boy billionaires.” T Magazine: Rupert Everett Is So Not An American Movie Star 2013-05-10T13:00:54Z Razi’s smiles hide a ghastly past, and some of the Palestinian militants seem more interested in the dead than the living, as in a blunt, chaotic scene, in which they struggle over a martyr’s corpse. Movie Review: Yuval Adler and Ali Waked Breathe Life Into ‘Bethlehem’ 2014-03-07T00:45:56Z The coroner’s office ruled Harwick’s death a homicide on Monday and attributed the cause to blunt force injuries, according to its website. Coroner finds evidence Hollywood therapist was strangled 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Rather than blunt displays of technique and physical range, she elicits their natural and harmonious coordination, musical responsiveness and breath. Critic’s Notebook: A bittersweet triumph for Suzanne Farrell and her company 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z In blunt defiance to her own insecurities, she tells him she likes him. Review | ‘Normal People’ is the soaring, achy, authentic cure for anyone who’s sick of rom-coms 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z As a means of probing into the souls of its subjects, the questionnaire was a blunt instrument, and there was endless suspicion about the true colour of the German citizenry. The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook – review 2013-05-31T09:00:02Z It’s linebacker-shaped, all blunt forehead and blocky torso, with the thin, bladelike fins of a high-speed ocean predator. Casting for a Big Fish on the Big Island of Hawaii 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Busing in Berkeley was a blunt instrument, applied with laudable intentions, that achieved what can best be called mixed results. Kamala Harris, busing in Berkeley and me: The tangled tale of a semi-failed social experiment 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z I do like cooking the various elements in ghee, rather than vegetable oil though; it adds an authentic richness without blunting the flavour of the onion and garlic. How to make the perfect saag paneer 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The other voice — pitched about half an octave higher, blunt, reedy, very winning — pops up in the essays. In ‘Serious Noticing,’ James Wood Closely Reads Chekhov and Others — Including Himself 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The artlessness factor: This blunt cut speaks eloquently, as no other hairstyle can, to today’s drive for authenticity. Bye to ‘Real Housewife’ Hair 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The third new study, looking at the link between sleep duration and obesity in teens, further blunts the idea that physical activity accounts for much of the increase in kids’ weight. Research: Childhood obesity is a product of environment 2013-04-09T18:38:00Z “Killer Joe,” with its stereotypes spread across twice as many characters and hollow gestures toward a social context, is an even blunter, more self-indulgent exercise in excess. Movie Review: ‘Killer Joe,’ Directed by William Friedkin 2012-07-26T17:03:26Z After obtaining a soap dish in which to ash his collection of chubby blunts, his eyes widened with focus. Lil Wayne’s Album Is Stalled. His Opinions Are Still Flowing. 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Use the blunt side of a small knife to draw circular lines, running from the centre of the pie to the edge; make sure you only score the pastry without cutting through it. Welcome to the feast: exclusive recipes from Yotam Ottolenghi's new book 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z And for me the effect is more unsettling and entertaining than that of another, blunter work, now on Broadway, by a better-known playwright on the same subject: David Mamet’s “Race.” Theater Review | 'Clybourne Park': Good Defenses Make Good Neighbors 2010-02-22T08:11:00Z Instead of treating their characters with documentary-style solemnity or, worse, pity, they depict them with rambunctious humour and blunt honesty, and gift them huge, cinematic stories. Meet the new hotshots of American film-making 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z I think that sometimes music today can get pretty straightforward and blunt, and I refuse to let metaphors die. 2010-02-16T08:37:00Z He’s used blunter terms of praise as well. The Trumps take their first official trip, and the world gets its first real look at the Trump marriage 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z These judgments are admirably blunt but usually light on actual analysis. Richard Schickel's movies memoir 'Keepers' is breezy to a fault 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z There's nothing elaborate in the language: it's blunt and simple, and that sparseness of poetic figure minimises the safe distance we normally keep between ourselves and full-on horror. Poem of the week: Rendition by Chris Wallace-Crabbe 2013-01-28T13:02:28Z The first accounts for the style: bubblegum pop put through a shredder, the guitars blistered, vocals fuzzy and impassioned, everything underpinned by stark, blunt drums, the 11 songs hurtling by in less than 30 minutes. Dum Dum Girls: I Will Be | CD review 2010-03-25T23:30:00Z He has large ears, knobby knees, a softly rounded belly and dark, soft eyes that see the world in blunt terms. ‘EO’ Review: Imagining the Lives of Other Creatures 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z But the great South African playwright Fugard treats apartheid and South African politics in a much blunter and more spelled-out fashion here than he does in other works. Review | Dynamic production of ‘Painted Rocks,’ a mediocre Fugard play at MetroStage 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Asked how it felt performing live in such an unvarnished way, Chastain was blunt. Jessica Chastain Returns to the Stage With Nothing to Prove 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Laura, do you understand the situation we’re in here?” she asks, her impatience blunted by decades and decades of existential fatigue. 'Homeland' Recap: Who Would You Choose as a BFF? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z And “Fear the Darkness” does not initially seem to be about anything very heinous, even if it begins with the clichéd blunt, violent prologue. Becky Masterman’s ‘Fear the Darkness,’ With Brigid Quinn 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z “Deserve Me” is blunt: “I like it better when you’re gone/I feel a little less alone.” Nicki Minaj Returns Ready to Rumble, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z "Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt," she said as she collected her trophy. Success for Argo at Golden Globes 2013-01-14T08:56:10Z Her blunt yet ambiguous meditations on gender, class and language make her one of the few great artists to emerge from the Y.B.A. ranks, as the New Museum’s show, “Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel,” should demonstrate. Sarah Lucas, Unmasked: From Perverse to Profound 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Cause of death: a blow to the back of the head, her skull crushed with a blunt, unknown weapon. Hazel’s brutal murder was all but forgotten. Until she inspired ‘Twin Peaks.’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z That suggests something blunt, topical, strident and one-dimensional. Sufjan Stevens’s Cry of Despair and Prayer for Redemption 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z The Atlanta rapper's offering $50 grand a year for a full-time blunt roller. Friday Coda: Meredith Graves, Minutemen, U2, #Fugazi1888 and more 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Agree with your relative that the doctors are blunt and do avoid euphemism, speaking casually about procedures and body parts in a way you or I may not be used to. Conservative relatives can’t let the Planned Parenthood “scandal” go? Try these talking points 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z It’s his nature to be blunt, unapologetic and self-mocking, especially on the topic of his looks. Billy Joel’s Got a Good Job and Hits in His Head 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z The experience of watching “Boyz n the Hood” so far away from America was both disorienting and exhilarating, the distance only heightening the movie’s street-level energy and blunt emotional connection. Perspective | John Singleton helped redefine American pop culture, and his impact is still being felt today 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Because Mr. Eimer is not bound by diplomatic or journalistic niceties, he can be blunt in the terminology he uses. ‘The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China’ 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Youn, who often apologized during the interview for how blunt she thinks she sounds in a tongue not her own, fears that her lack of English proficiency may impede her. She Never Dreamed of Acting. Now She’s an Oscar Nominee for ‘Minari.’ 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Instead of blunt force, Sandusky used a variety of seduction techniques, building trust with boys through the many perks of Division I Athletics and a nonprofit he founded for underprivileged youth. With Paterno-Sandusky doc 'Happy Valley,' unsettling cultural questions 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z The four drawings from the 1950s were made with blunt pencils on plain sheets of paper. Bob Law drawings find poignancy in simplicity 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z But a workout, however rigorous, has done little to blunt an ambition that may well be bred in the bone. The Fine Art of Staging a Blockbuster 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z As is often the case, the best moments belong to supporting players, who toss bits of sharp acting into the blunt and muddy clangor. | 'The Eagle': Back Then, a Man?s World of Loyalty and Adventure 2011-02-10T22:21:36Z It takes a while to warm to the broadly anachronistic gags, and there’s some blunt violence and overwrought, shrieky clowning. Oregon Shakespeare Fest, 2013: the Bard, and more 2013-07-24T22:08:57Z Such advice might sound shocking, disturbing or hilariously blunt. More work, no pay: Why I detest “Literary Citizenship” 2014-04-23T17:04:00Z Howard Cook, represented in the exhibition by almost a dozen images, suggests a city of blunt plasticity, its architectural spaces seemingly carved, buffeted and distended by the power of people, commerce and transit. Art review: ‘Architectural Image, 1920-1950’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z That record confused the public and blunted sales of Mr. Rhodes’s self-titled release. Emitt Rhodes, a New Album Out, Emerges From His Slumber 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Everyone thinks and speaks with a similar blunt simplicity. ‘Tell,’ by Frances Itani 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Ms. Dratch maintains a blunt, irreverent and gently jaded posture, partly because of experience. Critic’s Notebook: Following Tina Fey, Comedians Churn Out Books 2012-05-24T20:42:34Z He is stubborn and chivalrous, blunt and generous, physically brave and intellectually nimble. Michael Chabon Returns With a Searching Family Saga 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z My father was fairly blunt about what he thought. ArtsBeat: Schlesinger Letters Will Be Collected in New Book 2011-04-27T13:17:16Z To play Mr. Lauda, whose dialect and blunt manner are known to millions through his televised racing commentary, Mr. Bruehl studied with a Viennese coach, who put a proper Austrian finish on his English. Daniel Brühl’s Global Accent in ‘Fifth Estate’ and ‘Rush’ 2013-08-28T21:48:14Z In a time when comedians seem increasingly and understandably cautious on Twitter, she seems as blunt as she does onstage. Jen Kirkman Finds Material in the Single Life in ‘I’m Gonna Die Alone’ 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Royal experts said that the palace’s swift reaction, and blunt condemnation, of Fulani’s treatment showed that Charles was intent on demonstrating that he would not tolerate any perception of racist behavior in the royal household. ‘The Crown’ Could Have Damaged Charles. Becoming King Has Helped. 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z It was easiest when I was a child: my classmates were blunt yet sincere, more fascinated than anything else. Experience: I was born with no ears 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z The New York Times critic Manohla Dargis wrote that the film was a “blunt, ugly sendup of class politics” that “sharply divided critics.” Charlbi Dean, Star of Top Winner at Cannes, Dies at 32 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Her blunt, unapologetic humor made millions of people around the globe laugh. Private funeral set for Joan Rivers, acerbic comedy pioneer 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Tuesday morning, he strolled in about an hour after Desus and began rolling a blunt. ‘Desus & Mero’: No Suits. And No Canned Sketches. 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z But also don’t be surprised if Mr. Barker’s blunt lyricism lingers in your mind. | 'Gary the Thief' and 'Plevna: Meditations on Hatred': Howard Barker?s Poetic Plays at Atlantic Stage 2 2010-07-20T21:17:00Z “I e-mailed a blunt question: ‘I believe that Robert Galbraith is in fact J.K. This Detective Novel’s Story Doesn’t Add Up 2013-07-14T13:48:23Z When two lovers look at each other in this movie, the tenderness in their eyes softens everything, creating a radiance that folds around them like a blanket, blunting the world. ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Review: Trusting Love in a World Ruled by Hate 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z It was a typical pronouncement for Ms. Allen: smiling, self-conscious, blunt. Lily Allen Brings Biting Sincerity to the Highline Ballroom 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z McKinnon's character tapped into that trend, noting that actresses in her time in Hollywood had a fairly blunt code to speak in about harassment and abuse they endured. 'SNL' Didn't Hold Back About the Ongoing Harvey Weinstein Scandal This Week 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z She is also blunt about the pain in her life. What I learned after 100,000 miles on the road talking to Trump supporters 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Released 20 years ago this month, the film centers on a cabal of broken New York teenagers who spend 24 hours boozing, rolling blunts, fighting and indulging in unsafe, emotionally vacant sex. ‘Kids,’ Then and Now 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z His ebullient managerial style could also become blunt and abrasive. Harvey Lichtenstein, Who Led Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Rebirth, Dies at 87 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Yet here is a blunt truth: Some disabilities are more telegenic than others. How the Sitcom ‘Speechless’ Understands Families Like Mine 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z It's a nuanced issue, and one that won't be solved with the passage of blunt instrument bills. Policing the grocery carts of poor Americans won't make for a healthier country 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z Even the revelation of Allied double-dealing to carve up the Middle East, as detailed in the Sykes-Picot agreement, did not blunt the rebellion of the Arab Hashemites against the Ottomans. Heading towards disaster 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Having spent most of my career writing about the industry, I’ve met a fair number of editors with whom I’ve shared blunt talk and lots of laughs. ‘Tales from the Back Row’ review: Inside the fashion industry 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Age tends to creep into their talks as a rueful metaphysical truth and blunt existential fact, but that same night Mitch also gets stoned with a young guy in a club bathroom. ‘Land Ho!’ Sends Men of a Certain Age to Iceland 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Such a blunt narrative would never pass muster in a Disney boardroom. How will "Evil Dead" and "Spidey" director Sam Raimi fare in the MCU? It'll swallow his soul 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Let’s just hope we don’t fall victim to the same blunt weapon for no reason other than bad luck. Internet Mob Justice Isn't Justice At All 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z She’s blunt and manipulative, beginning with clear conjecture before dropping the hypothetical halfway through and gleefully concocting an account of Mark’s killing Danny. 'Broadchurch' Recap: Properly Angry 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Neve McIntosh as Madame Vastra is emerging as a true star of the show, and she gets fleshed out, with her blunt condemnation of Clara’s attitude and her lustful manipulation of Jenny. Doctor Who recap: series 34, episode one – Deep Breath 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z But these testimonials are undercut by references to suicide and blunt assessments of the industry’s faltering economic model. ‘Pretty Filthy,’ a Behind-the-Scenes Musical about Pornography Stars 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z He is warm but direct — or “incredibly blunt but correct,” as one student described his teaching style. Talented Designers Stream Into M.F.A. Video Game Programs 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Should you be willing to overlook certain intrinsic difficulties, “Held for Ransom” is a surprisingly thoughtful hostage drama given the blunt meatheadedness of its title. ‘Held for Ransom’ Review: Negotiating With Terrorists 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z At 48, with his erect posture, blunt features and mournful ice-blue eyes, he gives off the intimidating air of an aging middleweight boxer who still has a few knockout punches left in him. Guerrilla Fashion: The Story of Supreme 2012-11-21T22:29:38Z Gracie Gardner’s “Athena,” a deceptively simple portrait of adolescent friendship and the ways that girls temper and blunt their own ambition, concludes in a closely fought fencing match. The Unforgettable Theater Moments of 2018 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z To give credit where it’s due: it’s refreshing to see Jones’s confession as an extension of the themes of guilt and responsibility that the show’s writers have been hammering home throughout blunt, but effective dialogue. ‘Jessica Jones’ Episode 6: The Truth Comes Out 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z One blunt example came from the new and improved — and allegedly “20 percent nicer” — Gawker: “In the end, Scalia was a loser.” Now is not the time to publicly flog Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Donald Trump’s greatest talent is his ability to boil complex themes down into blunt sentiment. #ImWithHim: why Donald Trump is right to watch all films on fast-forward 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z That doesn't lessen my anger at Marvel, because the triumph of "Black Widow" is blunted by the immutable fact of the title character's permanent death in "Avengers: Endgame." "Black Widow" is a triumph for Marvel fans, yet that's what makes it so infuriating 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Analysts say it can delay autumn sales, pull forward Christmas sales that store groups would otherwise have made at full price, can blunt sales in subsequent weeks and also leaves consumers expecting more pre-Christmas promotions. UK retailers embrace 'Black Friday' discounts 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z His narration tends to be blunt: “It all added up to spinning wheels, but they were wheels that needed to be spun.” Review: John Grisham and Michael Connelly, Making Their Cases in New Novels 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z He said Relin died of blunt force head injury, but declined to provide any other details. “Three Cups of Tea” co-author David Oliver Relin dies at 49 2012-12-03T14:15:00Z Quietly brilliant, it is an unsentimental look at family life and working single mothers – blunt, warm, fascinated by the absurdity of trying to hold it all together. Pamela Adlon: ‘Better Things is about hope and love amid the darkness’ 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z The show, by contrast, is more blunt in its critique; it actively vilifies those who try to decide, unilaterally, how the world should pay for its sins. “Watchmen,” “The Boys,” and the False Hope That Superheroes Can Save Us 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z As Sarastro, Stephen Milling sang with a gruff bass but suggested an efficacious CEO who maintains his dominion with platitudes, fear and blunt persuasion. Review: Pulling Back the Curtain on ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z “I’ve never seen a public statement quite as blunt, or as angry, as this one,” said Judith Mackrell, an author and former dance critic for The Guardian in London, referring to Kekhman’s remarks. The Ballet Star and the Russian Magnate: A Feud Roils the Dance World 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z But the play wears its research heavily, regularly trotting out from-the-annals factoids and bits of educational exposition, and the dialogue is often too blunt. Review | Anxious men and other world-builders at CATF 2019 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Those noirlike images are meant to be a blunt reminder of lost lives and to underscore the opinion that many collision deaths should be considered crimes rather than accidents. Memorializing Traffic Deaths With an Artist’s Touch 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Of his father Bertolf, a tile installer, Matheson recalled: “Refuge from this alien world was sought in alcohol which served to blunt the nerve ends and numb away the fears and anxieties.” Richard Matheson (1926–2013): The Wizard of What-If? 2013-06-28T20:55:11Z As increasing numbers of American friends tell me, it's the blunting of America's sceptical, satirical edge – by a predominantly rightwing media – which threatens and slows the necessary progressive agenda. Letters: Sacred text and satire 2012-12-25T21:00:03Z Jennifer Lawrence is an actor beloved for her blunt style and no-nonsense antics. Jennifer Lawrence Blames Herself for Earning Less Than Male Actors 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z He asks for someone in the crowd to light his blunt. ArtsBeat Blog: Touring the Fringes, the Final Hours of CMJ 2011-10-23T21:44:53Z They are shocking, surreal nightmares drawn from his experiences in the Sino-Japanese War, as blunt and as memorable as anything by Goya. ‘Soldier, Spectre, Shaman,’ an Alternate History at MoMA 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z That impact is blunted, however, by the use of too many talking-head segments whose purpose seems to be to tell us things that are already self-evident. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z The battle, which blunted Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's bold invasion of the North, was fought from July 1-3, 1863, and pitted more than 165,000 troops battling in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania. Scott brothers capture Civil War in 'Gettysburg' 2011-05-28T23:01:05Z He’s just a blunt object at this point. Donald Trump won’t back down: His promise to “cut the head off ISIS and take their oil” isn’t even the creepiest part of his new TV ad 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Sullivan’s pictorial wit and storytelling brio are delightful in ways that cut against the harshness of the story without blunting its deep ache. Movie Review: ‘Consuming Spirits,’ an Animated Film by Chris Sullivan 2012-12-12T00:01:20Z At its best, Durham’s work flares with blunt energy, the catharsis of sly wit and the subtle nuance of pressing if unanswerable questions. Jimmie Durham's art throws some well-aimed stones 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z When they speak, it is often in blunt declarations about themselves and their circumstances. A Novel of the West Spans Decades and Genres 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z The Clark County coroner said both Boldon and his passenger, Sutton-Wasmund, died of blunt force injuries and ruled their deaths as homicides. Maple Valley woman was victim in Las Vegas cab crash that followed shootout 2013-02-23T18:17:57Z He also wonders whether his blunt manner — he just can’t offer faint praise when he doesn’t appreciate another artist’s work — may have held him back. Alex Katz at 88: Portrait of the artist unable to slow down 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Bloom plays Malky, a construction worker whose current job — typical of the film’s blunt symbolism — involves tearing down a church. ‘Retaliation’ Review: To Suffer Silently or Take Revenge? 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z In the press notes, Tafdrup, who wrote the script with his brother, Mads Tafdrup, explains his belief that social conditioning has made us too refined, blunting our survival instincts and even our common sense. ‘Speak No Evil’ Review: Impolite Company 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The Miami-Dade County medical examiner's office confirmed that Rice’s death was the result of blunt force trauma, the Indianapolis Star reported. Indiana father identified as Carnival Cruise Line passenger who suffered fatal fall from deck 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Many at the Capitol liked Quinn's blunt assessment of the state's money woes, but his proposals are far from a done deal. Quinn: Budget woes a long time coming 2012-02-23T04:32:00Z Beginning and ending with a forlorn man’s gunplay, the movie sometimes uses the blunt tools of melodrama to make its points; and Garfield can get adolescently dewy in skirmishes with his Manichan mentor. REVIEW: Spider-Man Has a Housing Crisis in 99 Homes 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z But it is also blunt in its language and its depiction of the cruelties of slavery, the kind of historical realism that is being erased from educational curriculums in some schools and libraries today. James de Jongh, Who Put Stories of Slavery Onstage, Dies at 80 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Beginning on a note of bathos, our unnamed 25-year-old antihero starts off his day with a blunt needle, “but I hit a vein, no problem, . . . It’s going to be a lucky day.” Review | The best audiobooks to listen to this month 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Should artists embrace politics and wield the blunt weapons of satire, caricature and scorn? What can artists do when the world turns ugly? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Yet even when that outside world bears down on Pietro and especially Bruno, the movie skitters away from messy, unpleasant particulars, which makes its painful passages easier to take but also blunts its impact. ‘The Eight Mountains’ Review: A Bond Forged Amid Splendor 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z You’ll be hearing that again, so let us be blunt again. Upfronts Watch: NBC Tries to Turn Around Its Turnaround 2013-05-13T18:04:02Z It manages to mock and celebrate musical-theater conventions in staging that is both tongue-in-cheek cheesy and polished, and storytelling that is blunt yet sly as a fox. "Book of Mormon" fresh, funny and sweet 2011-03-25T00:48:29Z Perhaps 20 years on, political passions have subsided and the edge has blunted. TV Club: GBH 2010-03-17T11:52:00Z Home, however intermittently, was for many years a 17th-century Gloucestershire farmhouse shared with his wife, Elizabeth, who has supplied a number of blunt, affectionate annotations to her husband’s letters. The Wanderer 2011-02-25T17:39:26Z But my Arabic vocabulary was blunt and broad, so I heard him as being blunt and broad. Grappling With the Language of Love 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z She was blunt about her struggles with alcohol, talking about how she drank before taking the stage. Elaine Stritch, salty star of Broadway, dies at 89 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Hacksaw Ridge, his fifth feature, is blunt and effective, a picture cannily crafted for maximum effect. A Leading Man Saves Hacksaw Ridge from Hackdom 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z But Elissa sees his sensitive side and in blunt ways only a teen would think of, queries him about his history and about "that night" four years before. 'House at the End of the Street': Lawrence not afraid of being scared 2012-09-21T17:12:04Z The picture is as open as “Olympia” is blunt, and Manet captures it all with indefinite, flowing brush strokes that give it a startling freshness. Manet’s Last Years: A Radical Embrace of Beauty 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z There is no glamour and little romance, yet there is a fine-grained mystery to the most ordinary, blunted lives. Frances McDormand Stars in ‘Olive Kitteridge’ on HBO 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The screenplay is blunt and to the point, and the performances are subtly tinged with a surreal comic edge. | 'The Optimists': Best of All Possible Worlds: When Life Gives You Mud, Take a Mud Bath 2011-07-27T22:21:43Z But Schenkkan is primarily smitten with Johnson’s big ideas and blunt tactics, and the show is driven by Jack Willis’s performance — a growling, full-throttle turn with the energy of a Mack truck roaring downhill. Review | The agony and ecstasy of LBJ are revived in ‘The Great Society’ 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z That was the way of the whole concert — never blunt, but rather swirling and indistinct, raising questions. Frank Ocean sticks to the music in Seattle tour kick-off 2012-07-14T19:56:07Z Cut: “It’s basically just a blunt cut bob,” Mr. Cusano said. Weighing In on the ?Callista? Gingrich 2012-02-10T23:51:11Z She died of blunt force trauma to the head. Who killed Sister Cathy? That is — and isn’t — the story of Netflix’s latest true crime show 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z "I had an affair, for months," replied Molly, blunt truth now being the only way. TV review: Coronation Street 2010-12-06T21:01:00Z Knowing this group, I won’t be surprised if we get startled looks or blunt questions. Social Q?s: Leave Larry David at Home 2010-05-21T01:12:00Z “Rather than always fighting to be avant-garde, sometimes just a really well-done, classic haircut can be different and gorgeous, whether it be a bob, beautifully cut layers, or a blunt fringe.” 5 Beauty Tips Women Can Learn From Dudes 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z As both of them were blunt, abrasive, fiercely intelligent and morally enraged by the status quo, they became friends. The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z His style is forward-driving but rarely blunt or aggressive, and never random. Music Review: Tomas Fujiwara and the Hook Up at Jazz Gallery 2010-04-30T20:54:00Z She was a blunt boss and a fierce competitor. Eileen Ford and Ford Models helped define what American beauty looked like DeRogatis’s response is blunt and troubling and worth reading in full. Reporter who broke R. Kelly sex abuse allegations: “Nobody matters less to our society than young black women” 2013-12-16T18:51:00Z Early on, the Supreme Court rebuffed an attempt to televise the trial, which blunted its impact in an age of YouTube and cable news. ‘Redeeming the Dream,’ by Theodore B. Olson and David Boies 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Much of the complexity has been directly written into the franchise’s overarching, seemingly blunt story of good versus evil. | 'The Dark Knight Rises’: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ With Christian Bale 2012-07-18T17:49:45Z Mr. Valentine, of the Nashville Symphony, was more blunt in his assessment of the need for alternative funding types like Kickstarter. Kickstarter as a Path to Grammy Nominations, Far Beyond the Indie Scene 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z But by what scarily graphic and blunt route do we end at Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in "50/50" manipulating a surgery scar so that it "talks" like Kuato, the "Total Recall" humanoid? Laughing at The Big C 2011-10-10T23:15:04Z Mr. Terry was more blunt: “She’s pulled this thing out of my throat.” And for His Next Trick, Hopping Genres 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z “Sometimes I may smoke one blunt, sometimes I may smoke 100 blunts,” Snoop said. Forget the handmade wreaths. Now Martha Stewart hangs with Snoop Dogg and makes weed jokes. 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z He’s in character, as somebody in the construction or freight-loading trade, drawing his only comfort from a blunt sense of purpose and the hope of eternal reward. Review: Jason Isbell’s ‘Something More Than Free’ 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Shock effects that required real ingenuity and filmmaking skill on a low budget can now be rendered with the reflexively blunt photorealism of digital imaging. DVDs: Hot and Sticky Grindhouse, Classics and Homages 2010-10-03T01:53:00Z The Northern creed and manner — tough and often humorously blunt — are epitomized in the films by the police and their allies. 2010-01-30T16:59:00Z But he worried that a realistic historical setting would blunt the impact of the idea, making it seem too narrow and political. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Part of the beauty of the series is the way he lurches from Ph.D.-level jargon to blunt matter-of-factness. ‘Rick and Morty’ Returns to Destabilize the Universe 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Throughout the concert, drones stretched out, two-chord vamps moved with slow deliberation and the live instruments were mixed with blunt, brutal sampled sounds, as Mr. Cale ratcheted up the tension and darkness in his songs. Review: John Cale of the Velvet Underground, Still Bristling at 75 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z The girl died from blunt force trauma, according to a coroner’s report, which did not list any mention of drowning. Food Network's 'Worst Cooks in America' winner charged with murder says foster child, 3, drowned 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Yuriy Bykov’s film, which renders the ugliness of modern Russian life in gorgeous wide-screen compositions, is in some ways a blunter, more floridly melodramatic version of “Leviathan.” New Directors/New Films Festival Gives Spotlight to Youth 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Watching Bassett swing a few blunt weapons is something we haven't seen her do very much over the years; she tends to be cast as the person giving the orders. Netflix's "Gunpowder Milkshake" is another dumb fun lark about women who kill 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z I am philosophically opposed to beginning a review with the blunt suggestion that you go see the show I just saw. Review | The best of the Kennedy Center’s Broadway series? Game over, it’s ‘Tommy’! 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Both are blunt instruments relative to the vagaries of life, but good faith doesn’t need to be perfect; it just needs to show up. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Eeny, meeny, miny, moe (and if he hollers, let him go) 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z It does reflect a traditional faith in the blunt fact of death as inseparable from abundant life. Steve Martin-curated Lawren Harris exhibition shines light on landscapes physical and metaphorical 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z The edits made for a clumsily uneven work of vestigial intimacy and blunt, bombastic flag-waving. Review: The Time for Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’ Is Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z One way or another, this gentle color blunted the brute angles of these perplexing post-war buildings. | Le Havre in a New Light 2011-12-21T20:37:21Z In “The Eagle,” for instance, Mr. Sutherland serves as a temporary foil and mentor for Channing Tatum, the blunt and brooding star, whose dour quest to restore his family honor drives the narrative. Film: Midwinter Ritual: When Good Actor Meets Bad Movie 2011-02-19T03:43:01Z In it, reporter Mike Stobbe asks, “Experts say society must grapple with a blunt question: Instead of trying to penalize them and change their ways, why not just let these health sinners die?” Do smokers and the obese deserve insurance? 2013-01-28T20:39:00Z The characters’ superpowers are metaphors — sometimes rather blunt ones — for the deficiencies in the lives of the family members. Playing a Superhero, Yes; Typecasting, No 2010-09-24T22:30:00Z What she’s waiting for is a sign from her twin brother, Lewis, whose recent death partly explains his sister’s dazed, blunted affect. Review: Kristen Stewart Is Entrancing as a Haunted ‘Personal Shopper’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The subject is organized crime, but it’s the author’s blunt eloquence that matters. Books to Breeze Through This Summer 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Forgiveness “did not remove my pain or blunt my nightmares,” she says. ‘Mischling,’ a Holocaust Tale of Twin Sisters in Mengele’s Grip 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Part of the show’s appeal is the way it oscillates between loquacious sympathy and blunt wisecracks. Grisly Murders and Serial Killers? Ooh, Tell Me More 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z When we started out we all were driven to be very direct and blunt. Tom Ellard of Severed Heads - what I'm thinking about 2013-03-14T04:31:17Z Her talk is blunt and laced with merry obscenity. Sheila Callaghan plays with gender identity in 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad' 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Some dancers thought Mr. Millepied was too blunt, Ms. Cappelle said, especially when he asked for changes from “people who have been working in certain ways for 20 or 30 year.” Benjamin Millepied Opens Up on Leaving Paris Opera Ballet 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z The lead attorney for the accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev began his defense this month with a blunt and dramatic statement: “It was him.” Review: ‘The Brothers’ and the Boston Marathon Bombing 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z I think you and your pal were reaching for the same joke: that 88 might somehow look like 55 — only yours was sly, and hers was blunt. But We’re So Young 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z This projected field of destruction is known, in shockingly blunt military parlance, as the “bugsplat.” Director Gavin Hood on the nature of (and the need for) modern warfare 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z He zips in with the zinger with brisk dispatch and delivers it not with blunt force but with the throwaway grace of a crack shortstop turning a double play. Nathan Lane, Hamming It Up As Few Can 2010-05-26T17:15:00Z All are rich in perceptions and pithy phrasing, like his blunt assessment of the value of collecting kudos: “Awards have three things to offer: cash, confidence and bric-a-brac.” Books of The Times: ?Look, I Made a Hat,? Stephen Sondheim Lyrics - Review 2011-12-08T23:09:14Z The question, then, was what to do next, and for Tharp the answer is blunt: "All those nos would become my yeses." Step-by-step guide to dance: Twyla Tharp 2011-02-01T10:43:36Z In a nutshell, his assessment was that he had made too many concessions in the film’s original 1979 release, and that the march of time had blunted some of its surreal edge. Francis Ford Coppola: 'Apocalypse Now is not an anti-war film' 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z They also pile on the complications in what seems like an effort to blunt the sadness. Movie Review: Frank Langella in ‘Robot & Frank’ 2012-08-17T15:03:02Z But as he grew up, he began thinking about manhood as something he could develop by embodying his values, rather than a blunt appraisal of his physical self. In praise of short men: will the rise of 'short kings' spell the fall of toxic masculinity? 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z A French diplomat was more blunt:“Whatever disagreements we may have with Iran we want to keep and develop a cultural relationship with Iranian society.” In Iran, France blends hard talks with soft power at Louvre exhibit 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z The child was identified by the Greenville County Coroner’s office as 3-year-old Victoria Rose Smith and died as a result of blunt force injuries, according to a medical examination. Food Network's 'Worst Cooks in America' season cut after winner charged with child murder 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Which is to say, banning words from search engines is a blunt tool that will raise more problems than it solves. Lucy Mangan: does David Cameron care about child abuse? 2013-07-27T08:00:41Z Gui dismisses this blunt warning as politics as usual. Dina Nayeri’s ‘Refuge’ Follows the Reinvention of an Exile 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z This is the blunt, uncomfortable premise of “On the Count of Three,” which opens with the two main characters psyching themselves up to blow each other’s heads off. ‘On the Count of Three’ Review: Friends to the End 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The book includes his simpler constructions that use blunt visual puns to show, for example, “Reading Is Dangerous” and that speed by quickly. Cartoonists Tackle the Big Stuff: O.C.D., Motherhood and Too Many Books 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z The artist usually demurs when asked what his works mean, but here he says his aim is to show a highly unusual family speaking in a blunt way, to encourage others. Educating Aida 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z I appreciate strong talk and blunt words for a problem that needs both. Motherlode Blog: Georgia's Tough Anti-Childhood Obesity Campaign 2012-01-03T21:33:36Z The targets are easy and the caricatures are blunt, but the filmmakers aren’t inflaming passions so much as soothing them with laughter and mayhem. ‘The Hunt’ Review: The Culture War, With Heavy Casualties 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z O'Hara said the painter also had suffered several remote blunt force injuries. Coroner: Valium, alcohol killed painter Kinkade 2012-05-09T02:31:06Z Her subsequent roles, honorably assumed, as celebrity-widow and political spokesperson have tended to blunt the edge and limit the variety of new art she’s made in recent decades, and set a ’60s aura around it. Review: In ‘Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971,’ Text Messages From the Edge 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z But too often his performance was vocally blunt and a little glib. Review: A Good-Enough ‘La Fanciulla del West’ at New York City Opera 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Huston, who was thrilled with the results, was reportedly characteristically blunt in his response to the Technicolor management. Cinematographer Morris dies aged 98 2014-03-19T12:07:57Z It made supporting him almost impossible for frustrated minorities such as Anthony, who was blunt: “Trump isn’t a racist, but sure does surround himself with racists.” Outside coastal bubbles, to say 'America is already great' rings hollow 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z But when I asked Ganucheau to assess local journalism nationally, he was blunt — and far from positive. Perspective | There are flickers of hope for local journalism. So far, it’s not nearly enough. 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z It was more a commentary on President Trump’s poor leadership than an endorsement of Pence, but still — “It was pretty blunt,” she says. So, while we’re waiting . . . will Mike Pence ever be president? 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z These will tell you how blunt to be, why and at what cost. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: New mom’s loitering in-laws take offense when she asks them to leave 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z This is a memoir of a fashion designer in the 1930s and Hawes’s critique of the fashion industry is blunt, sharp and wittily observed. Ellie Kemper: By the Book 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Although it emerges only gradually, after a series of blunt questions from Becky, Sterling’s decision to withdraw from the world was inspired by a similar sense of perhaps unwarranted guilt. Theater Review: ‘Slowgirl,’ by Greg Pierce, at the Claire Tow Theater 2012-06-19T02:00:10Z This blunts the company’s substantial ambition; the current alternating repertory is typical of an expansive approach that will be massively amplified next season with the eight plays of Shakespeare’s “War of the Roses” tetralogies. Review | When blood and guts aren’t enough, even for a pair of tragedies 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z What the times required — and what today’s Brazil, today’s America, may require, too — was neither art for art’s sake nor blunt propaganda, each in its own way a cop-out. Lygia Pape’s Brazil, From the Beach to the Barricades 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s a blunt instrument we’re using now, but on the whole, it works pretty well. Musicians on How to Bring Racial Equity to Auditions 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Yet somehow these fall short, maybe because they suggest a blunt forging ahead, when in fact the choreography demands as much softness and restraint, one of its sublime tensions. Review: From Twyla Tharp, the Effort and Possibilities of Dancing 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The song’s blunt lessons of humility and self-worth are expanded here into a fuller narrative that’s based on some other events from Parton’s “dirt-poor” girlhood in the Great Smoky Mountains in the 1950s. Who can make a faith-based, all-white Christmas special seem fine ’n’ dandy? Dolly Parton, of course. 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The bleeping started early for the charmingly blunt Lawrence, a best actress nominee for "Silver Linings Playbook," as ABC silenced her cheeky red carpet response to actress Kristin Chenoweth. SHOW BITS: With work done, time to go play 2013-02-25T03:26:09Z She also suffered under the blunt northern variation of institutional sexism, and from the physical blows of her husband, who regularly beat her when he was drunk. In a Time of Crisis, Her Voice Was the One That Galvanized Alaska 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Pliny the Elder claimed that a mere look from a menstruating woman will “dim the brightness of mirrors, blunt the edge of steel, and take away the polish from ivory.” Seven crazy myths about the female anatomy 2012-08-24T13:37:00Z But little blunted the spirits of visitors gathered outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown to celebrate a ritual that is to many minds the most festive and joyous of the year. The Easter Parade That Could Not Be Stopped 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z It’s far angrier, and far blunter, than anything on Ms. Wright’s album. Music: Chely Wright Comes Out, Testing Nashville?s Tolerance 2010-05-05T23:41:00Z Armah quizzed them on the meaning of words and phrases like “authentic,” “odiousness” and “to blunt natural affection for your mother.” Worried about racism’s impact on her biracial son, a mother looks at home schooling 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z “A Better Life” is a blunt turnaround for Mr. Weitz, whose previous gigs were at the helm of “The Golden Compass” and the last installment in the “Twilight” juggernaut. | 'A Better Life': Drifting Apart, Struggling Together 2011-06-23T21:17:27Z But it broadens the spectrum of truthfulness and emotion for which he is known, depicting the last days of life with what, from him, is blunt realism. Review: David Gates Delivers More Havoc in ‘A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me’ 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z But this cynicism blunts her ability to navigate the world, and her own emotions, with catastrophic results. ‘Fake Accounts’ Examines the Alluring Trap of Our Online Personas 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Still, the blunt narrative edges of the play are softened by the mostly good acting, under the direction of Eric Ting. Review: ‘The World of Extreme Happiness,’ About China and Gender 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Ms. Lee herself was a little more blunt about her triumphs. Rita Lee, Brazil’s Queen of Rock, Is Dead at 75 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Scharer turns Cahun’s manifesto into Lee’s personal slogan, which she repeats to herself periodically, robbing it of its aesthetic power, blunting its sting. A Novel About the Life and Times of the Photographer Lee Miller 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Her voice is too blunt to expand over the score’s long lines, and her crucial duets with Cendrillon are not ecstatic climaxes but trouble spots for both singers to negotiate rather than luxuriate in. Review: The Stepchild of Cinderella Operas Finally Makes It to the Met 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z That is possible, but there is another blunt fact that may be more relevant. Why Poussin's Golden Calf was a sitting duck at the National Gallery 2011-07-18T13:11:13Z Publishers considered her use of dialect too alienating, and there was a worry that the blunt description of Africans selling their own into slavery was too incendiary. ‘Barracoon’ and ‘Slave Old Man’ Approach the Trauma of Slavery With Care and Kinship 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z It’s an effectively blunt opener for a series that from its start has tracked a different military drone, this one a man fighting to recover first his identity and then his humanity. Movie Review: ‘The Bourne Legacy’ 2012-08-09T16:33:27Z He talks to everyone he meets, asks nosy questions and pushes for blunt honesty in the answers he gets. ‘The Last Train to Zona Verde’: Paul Theroux’s African return 2013-05-01T18:29:59Z We have just waved goodbye to super producer and fellow Cash Prince Mike Will Made It, who had stepped out to greet us with a large blunt in his mouth. Cash Flex Zone: Rae Sremmurd And The Future Of Hip-Hop 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The humor then, as almost always, was blunt, conversational, hilarious and fully, bitingly perceptive. "Desus & Mero": Perfect late-night viewing for surviving Trump and the supremacy 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Languishing inside their apartments, we watched them play video games from a nearby sofa while we chain-smoked and awaited our turn with the blunt. My “Ghost World” years: Confessions of a teenage AOL catfisher 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Her best tracks – Van Vogue, Liquorice – are blunt, brash, wired to harsh, cheap rave-noise and, like closer 212, devastatingly effective and infectiously joyful. Lovebox – review 2013-07-22T17:49:05Z Unless the virus’s advance can be blunted in the coming weeks, the results could be catastrophic. Anthony Fauci was ready for this. America was not. 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z But the story is stretched too thin, blunting some of its more interesting ideas. Movie Review: ‘Ghanchakkar,’ a Tale of Thievery and Mistrust 2013-06-30T22:06:19Z But her higher aim is to expose the blunt social prejudice against attractive young women like Nat and Beth. Disappearing Acts: A Shelf of Missing-Person Mysteries 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z People wear any old thing, put together without forethought in what amounts to a blunt rejection of “fashion.” Gene is shaken to the normcore As a child, Cecil, living on a Georgia cotton farm, is exposed to the most brutal manifestations of Jim Crow, in scenes whose blunt shock lingers over the film’s gentler, funnier moments. Movie Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Stars Forest Whitaker 2013-08-15T16:52:46Z I apologise for being so blunt but there's no easy way to break this kind of news. Reckless by Cornelia Funke - review 2011-08-05T21:55:06Z It avoids the blunt ends Of our fingers as we point. In Her New Work, a Public Poet Balances the Personal and Political 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The show was hardly subtle, but, as documented in the movie, opinions expressed by various servicemen were no less blunt. ‘F.T.A.’: When Jane Fonda Rocked the U.S. Army 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z “Feud,” with blunt writing but exquisite performances, recreates that dish, critiques it and eats it with relish. Review: ‘Feud: Bette and Joan,’ a Clash of the Gossip Girls 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z He's blunt and bluff, stubborn and tenacious, dangerous and defiant. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z On a certain level, it seems blunt, but it is also honest and direct. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Ghost Stories 2011-07-15T18:49:37Z For close readers of Hemingway the endings are a fascinating glimpse into how the novel could have concluded on a different note, sometimes more blunt and sometimes more optimistic. ‘A Farewell to Arms’ With Hemingway’s Alternate Endings 2012-07-04T21:47:48Z After screening different edits of the scene for test audiences, Mr. Green said the version that viewers liked best — and that studio executives endorsed — was the briefest but also the bluntest. Way Back in Time With Two Friends Who Go Way Back 2011-04-01T20:53:01Z Bookman had been imagined as “a blunt, hard-spoken guy,” like a Raymond Chandler detective, Mr. Hall recalled decades later in an interview with Rolling Stone, and he knew during the audition that he’d nailed it. Philip Baker Hall, Character Actor in Roles of Authority, Dies at 90 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z The striking originality of Saint-Saëns’s “Organ” Symphony, as it is popularly known, has been blunted by too many careless performances. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z After a thorough scan of the fridge and pantry, an option emerged: Pasta would serve as the bulk, butter the conduit and miso the spark, adding a complexity beyond Parmesan’s blunt salinity. This Simple Five-Ingredient Pasta Has Loads of Flavor 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Subtlety, intimacy and complexity are blunted and in a sense the development is untypical New York. Memories at Ground Zero 2011-07-30T23:03:01Z I think there's really only one moment in the play where these characters, they're blunt about their feelings or say something that isn't coded in a way. Chris Perfetti on what aspect of "Abbott Elementary" is like "trying to play one-on-one with LeBron" 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z Tesori and Thompson have created a timeless work, which only contributes to its tragedy: No delay is likely to blunt its urgency. Perspective | Best classical music of 2020: The Met Opera’s nightly streams, ‘Blue,’ ‘Wagnerism’ and more 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z The campaign's other ads, which are not nearly as blunt, will continue to appear throughout the city, a representative for Visit Berlin told Reuters. Berlin tourism department pulls controversial ad showing woman giving middle finger to those without masks 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Does Boyle believe that everyone would react as Ralston did, with the blunt penknife, in that situation? What Danny Boyle did next 2010-12-05T00:04:00Z Moustakis fuses piercing description with blunt dialogue to explore the perpetuation of a family's snarled-up legacies of self-sufficiency, betrayal, psychological damage, physical abuse and loyalty through three generations. Alaska books: Bearing down on hope, survival 2011-12-01T00:43:04Z He seems oddly out of kilter with his environment, speaking slightly too loudly, with unexpectedly blunt honesty. The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z “You lied to us,” adds Asma, in that blunt, uninhibited way children speak when hurting. Review: A Restless Spirit Haunts a Family in ‘A Season in France’ 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z “Warrior” takes place in the world of mixed martial arts, and it is appropriately blunt, powerful and relentless, a study of male bodies in sweaty motion and masculine emotions in teary turmoil. | 'Warrior': ?Warrior,? Directed by Gavin O?Connor - Review 2011-09-08T16:26:17Z He plays with the ghosts of his friends and spares them blunt nostalgia. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z And–as last night’s episodes emphasized–each is unusually blunt in showing that, seen from outside the glass walls of the partners’ meeting, it is not always a benevolent setup. Earning It: Office Darwinism on Mad Men and The Good Wife 2013-04-22T14:31:05Z His style and his work were direct and blunt. Rupert Murdoch Turned Passion and Grievance Into Money and Power 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z With its clutch of shady characters, pitch dark humor and blunt talk, the film evokes such 1990s-era criminal outings as "Fargo," "Reservoir Dogs" and "True Romance," but set in the world of home construction. A twisty, fast-paced 'Aftermath' intrigues 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Here a certain lack of warmth and richness of blend — perhaps partly the Philharmonic’s sometimes blunt playing, and partly the room — detracted more from the music. How the Philharmonic’s New Home Sounds, From Any Seat 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z From the 1990s until it all came to a blunt and violent end on Oct. Death of a Red Carpet Reporter 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z But as the play goes on, we see the aching anguish and regret that Liz partially conceals with a blunt manner. Rep Stage’s ‘The Whale’ examines life’s physical and emotional struggles 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Her conclusion — about Hamilton, and what she suggests is wishful thinking on the part of many of his modern-day admirers — is blunt. Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z What our critic said: “‘BlacKkKlansman’ is a furious, funny, blunt and brilliant confrontation with the truth.” How to Watch ‘Black Panther’ Free and Other Oscar Movie Tips 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Storr’s side of the conversations he recounts tends to be blunt, inquisitive and peppered with salty British swearing. How We Got to Be So Self-Absorbed: The Long Story 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z It is a particularly blunt example of the white appropriation of black lives — except without all the bad stuff or, as the writer Greg Tate once put it, with “everything but the burden.” Review: In ‘Ted 2,’ the Foulmouthed Bear Tries to Prove He’s Human 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z And we both had a direct way of speaking that some might construe as blunt, a trait I giddily saw as a genetic puzzle piece nestling into place. When Trump vs. Clinton Becomes a Family Affair 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z “I cannot think of my old ambition,” she writes in a blunt statement of maternal sacrifice, “before my nipples darkened.” New & Noteworthy 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Gianotten describes the stock exchange as a deliberately "generic tower"; these enormous rooms, crafted with a blunt corporate hand, make you wonder if OMA has taken that idea a little too far. Shenzhen stock exchange building: inside China's 'miniskirt' 2013-04-16T17:56:13Z Feal — who was injured by falling steel while managing World Trade Center debris removal — is blunt and funny in a way that helps cut through the movie’s hurried, sound-bitey, fundamentally televisual quality. ‘No Responders Left Behind’ Review: Heroes Need Heroes Too 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z His attack on General Motors and its defective ignition switches was blunter and more bland, building off reporting by Christopher Hayes and others, adding more outrage and a ho-hum focus on the public relations. John Oliver and Clickhole Take Fake News in Opposite Directions 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z The blunt title of the exquisite “Van Gogh’s Ear,” now at the Pershing Square Signature Center, does not refer to art history’s most notorious act of self-mutilation. Review: Listening (Yes, Listening) to the Beauty of van Gogh 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Fun-Line7588 continues, “Maybe I was a little too blunt here but when she first told me the dress doesn’t fit anymore I was like ‘so? Bride-to-be gains weight in lockdown, demands sister pays for alterations 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z A blunt and sly critique of American racism. Dystopia, Apocalypse, Culture War: 2018 or 1968? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z In the British art world, she is respected and liked, as well as famous for her tactlessness, which might be understood as a certain blunt literalness. Interview: Penelope Curtis 2010-11-30T21:30:00Z Ms. Slate was more blunt: “A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me,” she said. Jenny Slate in Gillian Robespierre’s ‘Obvious Child’ 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Like her famous character on “Saturday Night Live,” the nervous Catholic schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher, Molly Shannon was more of a battering ram, laying siege to the false-fronted structures of Hollywood with blunt, repetitive force. Molly Shannon’s Memoir Is Filled With Mischief and Pathos 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z “Their teeth were blunted too, by then, broached by pinprick holes, sketched by hairline cracks.” A Couple Self-Isolate for Seven Years, and Become One Person 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z If there is an “us” and a “them,” these efforts aim to blunt our sense of it, says Chris Bail, a sociologist who leads Duke University’s new Polarization Lab. Hi Democrat, I’m a Republican, let’s not hate each other: The quixotic movement to get opposing voters to talk 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Murphy’s book does not read, despite its blunt criticisms, like a book-length put-down. ‘Scalia: A Court of One,’ by Bruce Allen Murphy 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z The rest of the cast fares less well, I’m afraid, giving performances that tend to be blunt or stilted. Theater Review: ‘Golden Child,’ at the Signature Center 2012-11-14T03:00:00Z To be blunt, his body odor is killing us! Perspective | Ask Amy: ‘Friends with benefits’ relationship has few benefits 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The comedy is as blunt as the drama. Love and Marriage – TV review 2013-06-06T07:29:48Z Waters deliberately made his lyrics blunter and more down-to-earth than he had before: “Money, it’s a gas/Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.” After Half a Century, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ Still Reverberates 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z The sun is low in the sky, its force blunted by a thick, yellow haze, which may be the smoke of war. What can artists do when the world turns ugly? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The well-meaning but blunt categories of denazification after 1945 actually blurred our understanding of the complex systems that led to war and genocide and how musicians operated within them. When Classical Music Was an Alibi 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Several of the album’s songs open with the same series of blunt, pinging tones, as if what’s about to follow will serve as a public-service announcement. Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next,” Reviewed 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Interspersed with this gung-ho adventurousness are interludes of a blunted poignancy: long, lingering stares across darkening water, and the like. Strands – A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland – review 2012-07-27T21:45:12Z Sydney offers a blunt rebuttal, reminding us of our limitless capacity for aggression, deceit, irrationality and plain old meanness. When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Rather than detract from the piece, the imperfections added a layer of depth, evoking ephemeral street art, fading signs for glamorous parties, and the blunt reality of the changing climate. Monuments That Celebrate Communal Struggles, Not Flawed Men 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z But the initial finding announced July 3 was that Bieniewicz’s death was the result of blunt force trauma to the neck. Death of Michigan referee raises medical questions 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z She was an old, lonely lady with a terrifying blunting of her once-sharp intellect, and she just wanted to talk. The Ecstasy and the Agony of Being a Grandmother 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Lonesome Rhodes is coarser and blunter than the others. The movie that foretold the rise of Donald Trump 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z At one point their romantic play becomes a series of exchanges, like jazz players passing phrases back and forth, each time with increasingly blunt come-on melodic twists as they give in to their desires. Music Review: A Karlheinz Stockhausen Work Has Its North American Premiere 2013-07-19T21:29:24Z But not in the blunt way you use the phrase. Dear readers: Please stop calling us ‘the media.’ There is no such thing. 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z So their thoughts on these respective matters are, to be blunt, of limited relevance. Winona Ryder can defend Johnny Depp - but it doesn’t tell us much 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z The site sent two reporters to Alabama and spent several days trying to discredit The Post’s reporting, but it hasn’t been able to come up with much to blunt the basic narrative. Even as Hannity and Limbaugh waver on Moore, Breitbart and Bannon hold on 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z The music thrills more than it intrigues; it prefers to make blunt declarations, not thoroughly persuasive arguments. Review: A ‘Dreamers’ Oratorio Tries to Transcend the Trump Moment 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The selected works include blunt poems that refer directly to Mr. Trump, in decidedly unflattering terms. American Poets, Refusing to Go Gentle, Rage Against the Right 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z But his blunt, conversational comedy is really meant for small rooms and late nights — and, frankly, not a family newspaper. Big Jay Oakerson, a Master of the Dirty Joke 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z After a hard day slacking off at the office, they unwind on the roof of their bachelor pad with beers and a blunt. Evanston native stars in slacker comedy 2011-04-06T01:01:00Z It was the towering waves he caught, coupled with a blunt but friendly manner, that made Noll’s reputation. Legendary big-wave surfer Greg ‘Da Bull’ Noll dies at 84 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z Using their hakapiks, they hit them once with the notch on the blunt side to ensure they are dead, and then they spike them with the other, dragging them back to the boat. Life on the ice: one last hunt for Norway's sealers 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z In its early days, it could at times be blunt and inelegantly dogmatic. Rage Against the Machine Returns for Fresh Battles 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z The reality star-turned-supermodel walked the runway solo, styled in a wedding veil and blunt bob, a cut worn by all the models in the 67-piece collection. Kendall Jenner is Karl Lagerfeld's supermodel bride at Chanel couture show 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Deadspin advertises itself as “sports news without access, favor or discretion” and is known for a blunt, irreverent attitude. Order to ‘stick to sports’ has Deadspin site in open revolt 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z All he had with him was a rope, a video camera, a bottle of water and, crucially, a blunt penknife. What Danny Boyle did next 2010-12-05T00:04:00Z Cruel humor is facile and blunt, as easy to tap as pushing a lame old man into a mud puddle and posting the video on WorldStar. What happened to Dave Chappelle: The cruelty of "Sticks & Stones" is a sign of the times 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z “To be blunt, the work has been better,” he told Vulture. Ryan Murphy on women-led film crews: the work is “better” 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Rushdie’s reaction to the protest was blunt. The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z We access the interiority of a woman who left school during the recession to make money and who’s blunt about that objective. Review | In Emily Ratajkowski’s ‘My Body,’ we see the picture from her point of view 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Which is to say a blunter, more conventional story. ‘Close’ Review: This Boy’s Life 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Two armored contestants on horseback, armed with blunt lances, try to knock their opponent off his horse or to break their lances against their opponent’s armor. Inside Art: ‘Armor for the Joust of Peace’ at the Met 2012-09-13T20:11:04Z And Mr. Hopkins’s Lear is at first every inch the tyrant; a blunt, gruff, arrogant man used to obedience and obeisance, incapable of reflection or empathy. Anthony Hopkins Returns to ‘King Lear,’ Finally Up to the Challenge 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Their work defies the silent and subtle lie of forgetting, blunts the clichés and received wisdom about Hiroshima and Chernobyl. Photographs of Wendover Air Base and Chernobyl 2012-03-10T05:03:24Z I’ll add some trigger warnings of my own: blunt exposition, familiar meditations on privacy and the corrosive nature of social media, the now shopworn employment of neon lighting. Review: ‘Assassination Nation’ Bluntly Calls Out All-American Misogyny 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Yes, the message is given with blunt force trauma, but it seems appropriate to leave the viewer shell shocked. 'Blade Runner 2049 is a roaring achievement': readers on the best films of 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z You don't have to spend too long observing the Milibands, however, to realise they are never going to succumb to anything so blunt or bloody. David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z The movie is blunt in presenting the patients’ emotional ups and downs, and shows the sometimes weary realism of the researchers. ‘The Human Trial’ Review: The Race for a Diabetes Cure 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The small details of the characters’ lives, rather than the blunt, occasionally melodramatic strokes, distinguish “Food and Fadwa” from any number of other domestic comedy-dramas of family strife. Theater Review: ‘Food and Fadwa,’ at New York Theater Workshop 2012-06-08T02:00:00Z “The worry is that jammers are a very blunt instrument.” Theaters Struggle With Patrons’ Phone Use During Shows 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The plaintive piece, originally performed by Lee in 2011, tells blunt stories about disappointments, then breaks into songs about how, say, none of us are special enough to avoid catastrophe in life. Review | ‘We’re Gonna Die’ makes you feel okay about it 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z The “Colbert” appearance—“Talking Trump with the Mooch and Michael Avenatti,” a chyron read—was a pantomime of a duel flamboyantly waged with blunt objects. Michael Avenatti and the Mooch Bring Their Blustering Banality to Stephen Colbert 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Admittedly, those numbers begin to sound repetitive and lyrically blunt, but a climactic sequence, set amid soldiers writing letters home from the front, captures the heartbreak and waste of war with aching simplicity. Perspective | Best movies of 2021: Almodóvar just gets better, family films make a comeback 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Her sister, who was my friend, was blunter: “Make my sister lose weight,” she said. She’s fat, and I’m not 2012-12-08T00:30:00Z Suhrkamp's illustrious authors are grappling for ever more exotic metaphors to attack one of the two, minority shareholder Hans Barlach, whom they describe as "a blunt automaton" and "an abyss of evil". Authors join tug-of-war at top German publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag 2013-01-25T07:00:01Z It’s a doorstop, full of sound and fury, more nihilistic than Shakespeare’s original, with all the blunt and dismal machinations of a soap opera. A King Lear Set in India, Wild and Tragic as Ever 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Winer often lifted passages from other writers, quoted other songs and applied her own dreamlike logic to it all, making something at once eloquent, blunt and cryptic. Leslie Winer’s Music Was a Mystery in 1990. She Still Likes It That Way. 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Siegel’s lawyers were blunt in describing why their client was not responsible for the diminished assets. As a Film Revives Elvis’s Legacy, the Presleys Fight Over His Estate 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z His initial works traded in a lot of sarcasm and irony, but his works about unemployment are stunningly blunt. Josh Kline’s Survival Art for 21st-Century America 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z That seems shockingly cynical, but there is something admirable in a movie that examines some of the worst aspects of modern American life with blunt, good-humored honesty. Review: ‘The House’ Is a Comedy Built on Despair 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z At its worst, as in this stilted, confounding episode, it has squandered its talented core cast and flaunted symbolic messages so blunt they seem more appropriate for, well, advertising billboards. 'Mad Men' Recap: Misplaced Nostalgia 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z I was surprised and, frankly, relieved that all the experts I spoke with said it’s O.K. to resort to old-fashioned, blunt rewards on occasion. This Life: Modifying a Child’s Behavior Without Resorting to Bribes – This Life 2013-01-11T21:30:51Z Watching the protagonist Ned Weeks — a blunt, opinionated gay man not unlike himself — Mr. Mantello understood his need to take action in the face of death and denial, he recalled recently. A Return to Acting That?s From the Heart 2011-05-25T15:10:50Z Then, a yoga session began, and after a couple of minutes, he lit a blunt. Action Bronson, the Leader of the Most Joyously Disorienting Show on Late Night 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Douglas is a blunt instrument, a fiction forged with humanist ideals and a degree of poetic fancy. ‘The Shadow of Violence’ Review: Behold, the Bad Man (Again) 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, your husband probably isn’t open to hearing constructive criticism from you now, and text messages are too blunt for conveying it, anyway. Can’t You Be a Little Nicer, for the Kids? 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Yet whatever satire might have been intended has been blunted by the fact that it’s all part of ABC’s marketing campaign for a new prime-time Muppet series. Remember When the Muppets Were Subversive? 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z That’s the unsubtle message, or rather just one of several such blunt, bludgeoning ideas that the writer and director James DeMonaco tucks into “The Purge.” Movie Review: ‘The Purge,’ Starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey 2013-06-07T01:20:03Z The performance is sharply delineated but the character is as blunt as a cudgel. ‘Buoyancy’ Review: Enduring Horrors on the Sea, and Struggling to Survive 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Last October, he released the freestyle track “Campaign Speech,” in which he called Mr. Trump “a loose cannon who’s blunt with his hand on the button.” Eminem Lashes Out at Trump With Freestyle Rap Video 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z And then there’s the sound of it — blunt, and husky, and only ever as precise as it needs to be. Review | Everything Cardi B says is music 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Guided by the blunt doom-and-gloom beat — produced by J White — she works in a palpable rhythm of inhale and exhale, making for an entrancing rhythm. How Cardi B’s ‘Bodak Yellow’ Took Over the Summer 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z But a chair seat is thin enough that you could probably improvise by breaking off a round toothpick and using a blunt end to tamp with. What to do when the seat won’t screw back into the chair 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z She has big features, a broad smile and long brown hair cut into blunt bangs. In ‘Nuclear Family,’ a Filmmaker Frames Herself 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z But for the most part both she and Mr. Bartenieff play the blunt emotionalism bluntly, hitting the obvious notes head on. | 'Prophecy': The Legacy of Wars in Karen Malpede?s Play 2010-06-10T23:30:00Z The blunt purity of the zombie movie explains both its draw and durability. ‘Peninsula’ Review: The First Rule of Zombie Club Is Run! 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Wallace, who died in 2012, was often considered the bulldog of the two, grilling government officials, criminals and international leaders with questions that struck with the force of a blunt object. Morley Safer, longest-serving correspondent for CBS’s ‘60 Minutes,’ dies at 84 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Among other things, the findings are a blunt reminder that female-driven blockbusters like “The Hunger Games” and African-American dramas like “Selma” remain exceptions in a largely homogeneous field. Report Finds Wide Diversity Gap Among 2014’s Top-Grossing Films 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z North Carolina’s discriminatory “bathroom” bill was signed, then blunted in the courts. What Has Changed Since “Transparent” Débuted, in 2014 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Ian Brown was more blunt in the vengeful folk of the Stone Roses' Elizabeth My Dear: "Tear me apart and boil my bones/ I'll not rest till she's lost her throne." Why pop stars won't be attacking the monarchy this jubilee 2012-06-01T12:01:08Z Asked if the uncertainty he still faces causes him anxiety, 21 Savage was blunt: “Hell yeah.” 21 Savage’s Still-Bumpy Path to Freedom 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Flora Bar is inside the Met Breuer museum, Marcel Breuer’s blunt and muscular stack of granite and concrete on Madison Avenue in the 70s, regarded as a masterpiece of the brutalist style. The Art of Flavor at Flora Bar in the Met Breuer 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z The dread of 8.45am, of entering an exam with a blunt pencil and nothing in your head but three seasons of Friends and a yearning for a Twix. Yorkshire versus Ibiza: which is the perfect holiday? 2013-03-10T06:29:03Z She was blunt when recalling the discrepancy between what she wanted to do and what she said was expected of her. Lee Bontecou, Acclaimed Creator of Wall-Mounted Art, Dies at 91 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z It’s a curious way to end a film that seeks to memorialize by blunt force. Movie Review: ‘Stalingrad,’ a 3-D Depiction of a Wartime Turning Point 2014-02-28T00:53:41Z But what made The Leftovers a work of art that stood out in an age of web explainers and rigorously parsing conversations was its blunt devotion to that most unfashionable trait: Faith. How 'The Leftovers' Finale Cemented the Show as a Classic Drama 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z "I like to be thought of as absolutely honest, but I am not seeking to write a combative work," said McChrystal, 56, known for his blunt and uncompromising instincts. Former Afghan commander McChrystal writing memoir 2010-12-21T22:03:47Z And at the stables, Cole learns how to shovel manure — a blunt metaphor, of course, especially when he goes to clean the stalls wearing new sneakers. Idris Elba drama "Concrete Cowboy" brings audience along for a crowd-pleasing ride 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z After 17 years of medical advances, theatre productions of Angels today can seem blunt and dated. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z About this familial disapproval Mr. Cunningham is blunt but not rancorous. Bill Cunningham Left Behind a Secret Memoir 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z The bit on guns is unnervingly good, and it’s blunt in its attack on Capitol Hill’s inaction. Second City puts sting in ‘Almost Accurate Guide to America’ 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Mazzilli is blunt about his agenda — he just needs to “push the right buttons.” Television: ?Runaway Squad? and ?The Locator? Make Hiding Hard 2010-04-02T22:40:00Z But she’s so blunt, funny and brave that she never becomes an object of our pity. Love and Other Ties That Bind in This Fall’s Y.A. Novels 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z All, however, boil down to the same blunt – and intolerable – message: that it’s women’s behaviour rather than the structures and systems that need to change. The problem with being 'badass' 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Miguel returns to one of his favorite modes — the flirt — in “Give It to Me,” which is blunt: “I like what you got,” he repeats. Jack Harlow Goes Deep on Race and Rap, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z In the film, Baldwin called whiteness a “metaphor for power” and called out this country’s legacy of racism in the bluntest of terms. In ‘Exterminate All the Brutes,’ Raoul Peck Takes Aim at White Supremacy 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z In both shows, Adlon was the perfect comic foil for CK: bawdy, blunt and vaguely infuriated by the modern world, not to mention very funny. Pamela Adlon: how Louis CK's sidekick became the star 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Though fans’ appetites may have been blunted, that hasn’t dampened Netflix’s enthusiasm – the streaming service announced a fifth season in May. Can the onslaught of TV reboots and revivals survive in 2017? 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z In a letter of protest to the pope, he painted a blunt picture of the Curia: “The realm is fragmented into many small feudal states, with everyone fighting against everyone else.” Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z Their words are variously reflective and blunt, candid and self-serving, but the film’s purpose is less to relitigate past events than to make sense of them. Review: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z He shows how a certain kind of blunt candor seemed all but unavailable to him as the first Black president. In ‘A Promised Land,’ Barack Obama Thinks — and Thinks Some More — Over His First Term 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z This perhaps helps explain why Nolfi circles once too often back to Matt, who marries, settles down, tests his own ambitions and finally helps blur the story’s focus and blunt its messaging. ‘The Banker’ Review: Wheeling and Dealing Toward Equality 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z In “Old,” Shyamalan takes a blunt premise — mysterious beach makes people age! — and doubles down on the idea past the point of good taste and onward into giddy, guilty pleasure. What Will It Take to Trust M. Night Shyamalan? 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Fortunato writes crisp action scenes wherein Evers and an assortment of evildoers do battle armed with guns, knives, fists and various blunt instruments. In ‘Dark Reservations,’ a missing congressman casts a deadly shadow 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Abraham’s use of photographs and films is more judicious here than in “The Watershed,” if still blunt. Kyle Abraham’s Abraham.In.Motion Echoes a Max Roach Album 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z “She’s a really special combination of innocent and blunt,” July said. Dance Class Is in Session: Flail, Get Weird, Unlock Yourself 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z It is a film that is blunt, direct and deliberately discomfiting. Mya Taylor is the face of this year’s most improbable Oscar campaign 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Content: Ms. Najjar is a creator on TikTok known for her blunt dating advice, celebrity commentary, and creating “starter packs,” which are like short guides, for rich moms. Christina Najjar Speaks to Rich Moms 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z A writer for The Atlantic and a longtime conservative, Frum is blunt in his criticism of the president: “Trump’s negligence and fecklessness are inflicting unimagined grief and suffering on the United States.” 11 Books to Watch For in May 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z A big heart and a blunt plot run through “Shine,” a movie whose story is there mostly just to usher in a dance sequence or an earnest speech. Review: ‘Shine’ Puts the Focus on Salsa Dancing in Spanish Harlem 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z But as a marital satire, this cartoonish movie is a blunt instrument, lacking the elegance and ambiguity of perspective seen just recently in “Gone Girl.” Review: In ‘Home Sweet Hell,’ Married Life Isn’t Heaven 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z It is never clear if Ms. Henley intends to lampoon the center’s blunt, schematic approach to the healing process. | 'Family Week': Beth Henley Revival Opens at Lucille Lortel 2010-05-05T02:26:00Z Like Power, she was a member of the pacifist Union of Democratic Control, publishing blunt essays to explain why “with every nerve in my body I stand for peace.” The Power Women of Mecklenburgh Square 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z They added, “There are ultimately, two tangible obstacles to abolishing the actress category at awards shows, and they are — to be blunt — money and feelings.” Gotham Awards Won’t Define Acting Categories by Gender 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The series is bound to be scrutinized, as much for its depictions of Brooklyn as for its blunt candor about youth and young womanhood. Television: Lena Dunham on ?Girls,? Her New HBO Comedy 2012-03-04T04:09:07Z Not far away, Maria Garcia, 74, is more opinionated and blunt about the ugly changes in Gary. When factory jobs left Gary, Indiana: whites left, 'but we blacks didn't have a choice' 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z And the book’s blunt, unforced telling brings the larger project’s meaning into sudden, brilliant focus. With ‘Spring,’ Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Latest Project Comes Into Focus 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z It was blunt, but not mean, innocent but completely thickheaded, tanking a warm moment and probably the whole budding relationship. Welcome to the golden age of social awkwardness 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Renner, 51, suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries in the accident Sunday near Reno and was in critical condition, representative Sam Mast said in an email. Jeremy Renner ‘too messed up now to type’ after 7-ton snowplow runs him over 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z But there's a threshold at which Harris' original point is blunted – it happens around five or six episodes into the season. "The Other Black Girl" peeks into the hidden horrors of being the only person of color at the office 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z This in turn allows Rankine to use poetry as a way to address subjects that are blunt and brutal in a nuanced way. Poet Claudia Rankine ruminates on the body politic in 'Citizen' 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Indeed, studies show that an optimistic approach blunts reactivity to stress, curbing the outpouring of hormones that can debilitate body and mind. What Does It Take to Overcome Adversity? 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z “Snoop must have smoked 10 giant fat blunts, and I inhaled all that smoke. I felt really good.” Martha Stewart, Blissed Out on CBD, Is Doing Just Fine 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z My House, My Rules: “Harm”? That’s too blunt an instrument here. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Any harm in ‘my house, my rules’ as the last word on unmarrieds sharing rooms? 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z One who understands the entertainment value of the blunt truth. Just say no, J. Lo: 'American Idol' judges waffle in season opener 2011-01-20T07:31:04Z Organic flux and decay are essential elements of Nash's various projects, with warping and cracking contributing a crucial finesse to the works' blunt and bold aesthetic. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z Right or wrong, that was a lot to absorb in Dallas, as my eyes shuttled across the Pleistocene and my fingers swiped the touch-screen of the blunt hand ax I tote everywhere. Was Australopithecus an Artist? 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Above all, he is superb at using language economically, in good blunt hits. Comedy gold: Kevin Bridges' The Story So Far 2013-03-08T10:00:04Z Or at least talk to Dan about them, to see if you chose way too blunt an instrument for managing a blended family. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Online post sparked morass, but parents deserve the thumbs down 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Women who try to date online often find that men send shockingly blunt sexual requests without even bothering with the preliminary of introducing themselves first. 5 things everyone should know about sex and relationships 2014-05-01T10:50:00Z Biden took some unusual — and unusually blunt — questions when the session was opened up to all the journalists in front of him. Biden’s news conference takes abrupt, lengthy turn 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z I like the blunt assessment of another critic who, noting the difficulty of the vocal parts, wrote, “The singers did what they could.” Books of The Times: Harvey Sachs?s ?Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824? 2010-06-17T21:09:00Z He exists purely to bludgeon fun to death with the blunt force of his conservatism. The X Factor's back, so kiss goodbye to your life 2011-08-18T11:28:56Z Her confident and blunt testimony swayed the jury — on Monday, she won her case, and Mr. Mueller lost his — and was shared widely across social media, where her responses were hailed as powerful. Taylor Swift Spoke Up. Sexual Assault Survivors Were Listening. 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z It’s a blunt reckoning with the inevitability of loss, including the loss of memory. ‘Vortex’ Review: A Split Screen and a Shared Fate 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z I got a cut arm and he was injured in the chest – not seriously, because the sword was blunt. Experience: I fought off a burglar with a sword 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z In a blunt self-appraisal early in her career, Davis called her ordinary look an asset. 'Brady Bunch' actress Ann B. Davis dies in Texas That the language is blunt and occasionally a little un-Christian may come as a surprise. Books of The Times: From Seat of Power, Battling Many Crises 2010-09-26T22:18:00Z Now if the redounding is too blunt and obvious, then what you get is a moralistic parable and not literature. The search for decolonial love 2012-07-02T20:54:00Z Whereas the pillar is heavy and blunt, expressing power and dominion over the “new” land, the oliphant is light and almost glows in its illuminated case. An Unsettling Visit to “Kongo” 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The protagonist’s past isn’t whitewashed in the Wild Bunch cut, but Ferrara’s blunt depiction is finessed into an allusion. Starring Depardieu as D.S.K. 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Her handshake is firm; her manner confident, pragmatic, and often blunt. Why are there so few women at the top in classical music? What’s being done about it in Seattle and elsewhere? 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Maybe that’s not the nicest sequence of words ever strung together, but it’s also such a “duh” that you get a little more license to be blunt. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Time for this lawyer to plead the Fifth 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z That short, blunt paragraph arrives after the long one like a punch. Rereading Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters” 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “They say that time comforts grief and the years blunt the sharp edge of loss,” McKenney writes. In Praise of Ruth McKenney 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z She was blunt when I asked her about her life. What I learned after 100,000 miles on the road talking to Trump supporters 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Giancola, looking back, is blunt to the point of cruel in his regard for Smith. ‘Addicted to Fame’: a filmmaker’s nightmare with Anna Nicole Smith 2012-11-29T22:55:43Z He was blunt: His company was in a bind. Dropping Anna Netrebko, the Met Turns to a Ukrainian Diva 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The visual wonders of The Abyss haven’t been blunted by time, though the CGI, at that stage of its development, looks much better in the deep, dark sea than above the surface. The Abyss at 30: why James Cameron's sci-fi epic is really about love 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z It will be a brief but shining respite from the blunt force with which commercial imagery regularly bombards our psyches by means of billboards, bus shelters, subway platforms and more. Art Everywhere: Coming to a billboard or subway platform near you 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z The blunt truth can be cruel and often unnecessary, and civility is understanding when it’s required and when a white lie will suffice. We live in uncivil times. Two former White House social secretaries offer a cure. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z The based-on-a-true-story movie, starring Brad Pitt as an Austrian mountaineer who befriends the adolescent Dalai Lama in the years before China's 1950 invasion of the plateau, ended with several blunt title cards: Filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud goes from outcast to ally in China 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z As a consequence it has become difficult for filmmakers to make midlevel studio movies for adults that value thought over action, narrative ambiguity over blunt spectacle. Movie Review: ‘Iron Man 3,’ With Robert Downey Jr. 2013-05-02T12:00:01Z It is more cohesive; the narrative about obstruction flows, and is blunt in its impact. The Mueller Report: A Thorny, Patriotic Addition to a Curious American Bookshelf 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z By the end, she was even blunter in her inimitable way, but she was spot on. Radio review: Blind Man's Bete Noire; Jeremy Vine 2011-07-11T19:29:01Z I’ve noticed sometimes that I’m very blunt about this issue of police brutality, and so I will talk about that we need to hold police departments accountable. The Democratic Presidential Candidate Eager to Challenge Trump on Immigration 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z The incomplete recovery was blunted by the sea itself. David Carr, the Traveler 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Still, that diagnosis is a little too blunt to really get at the problem. Why do we love a trainwreck? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z "Some of the people I met and did research with were very blunt with me and there's something really charming about that," he said. Ben Affleck delves into intricacies of autism for 'Accountant' role 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z There’s no way a special that covers night terrors, panic attacks, bipolar disorder, a dead mother and a disturbingly blunt father, along with suicidal thoughts, should seem this delightful. Taylor Tomlinson: A Comic With the Confidence of a Star 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z That leads to achingly graceful lines at times and to blunt insights at others, as when the speaker tackles social ills and inequities. Review | Gun violence, loss, grief and love: Three poets grapple with emotional turmoil 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z At 7 o’clock they’d meet at Supreme when the gate went down, the manager counting the day’s sales and someone rolling a blunt in the back. My teenage wasteland: The kid from “Kids” who took my naivete and trampled it with sex 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z He was denied a speaking spot at the Democratic State Convention, thanks to his own blunt honesty about his dismal prospects. Mickey Kaus Seeks to Correct the Flaws of Liberalism 2010-06-04T21:43:00Z If you are caught with a blunt in your car, you’ll warm the bench for four games. NFL will bench you longer for driving with no license than violently assaulting women 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Seeing them back to back, it's evidence of an impressive cinematic achievement, conducted away from the cinematic mainstream, even it means the impact is somewhat blunted by repetition. Civic Life ? review 2011-02-10T22:55:00Z Neither of us slept much, so we would text in the grey early hours, a tiny flash of connection in every blunt message. When my mother died, I inherited her best friend – and she became family 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z As Mr. Harden now acknowledges in “Escape From Camp 14,” his blunt, best-selling book about Mr. Shin’s life, Mr. Shin had built his own memoir upon a gigantic lie. Books of The Times: ?Escape From Camp 14,? by Blaine Harden 2012-04-11T21:17:16Z Because of this I didn’t really think about the blunter critiques woven into the plot of “Heathers” until I viewed it again as an adult. We need to talk about “13 Reasons Why”: The timeless case for getting into uncomfortable conversations about teen crises as seen on TV…and in movies 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Larry, a jazz pianist and composer in his earlier years, was more blunt. Meet the Next Generation of Cabaret Showstoppers 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z In its brash riffs and blunt beats, it revived the punch of ’50s rock ’n’ roll. Growing Up Gay to a Glam Rock Soundtrack 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z For all of his arcane talk, Mr. Williams can also be blunt when he needs to be. Pharrell Williams, Making Noise for ‘Hidden Figures’ Everywhere 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z He never played easy characters, and would blunt their sympathetic qualities with his own ferocity — but the results, as in this case, were often stunningly affecting. Stream These 8 Great Performances by William Hurt 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z The key to her comedy is a mix of crisp and blunt, with lots of body sarcasm and a lethal dose of intellectual side-eye. The Best Performances of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Then he went to the office paper cutter, over by the staffers working on some of Vice’s fashion properties, and trimmed the blunt edge. ‘Desus & Mero’: No Suits. And No Canned Sketches. 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z And the images were beautiful, expertly rendered and organized with the blunt force of great poster art, or advertising. It’s written all over their faces 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z This is because characters whose feelings are supposed to be at stake are blunted, dumbed-down caricatures of notional human beings, rather than sharply etched epitomes of human behavior. Movie Review | 'The Bounty Hunter': Aniston and Butler as Battling Exes 2010-03-18T23:14:00Z Its bluntest images—a rat in a prison cell, for instance—do a disservice to its many graceful characterizations. “When They See Us” Is Both Memorable Political Art and Misfired Entertainment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z But the silliness masks a cynicism that blunts some of the fun. Review: In This ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ Love Is a Zero-Sum Game 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, was even more blunt. Ticketmaster Cast as a Powerful ‘Monopoly’ at Senate Hearing 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z But her once-mighty volume has faded, other than an occasional forced burst of blunt power, leaving only her stolid, vaguely querulous portrayal of this complex character. Review: ‘Aida’ Gives a Taste of the Met Opera’s Bad Old Days 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z In the novel, she’s understood to be awkward, off-putting, thorny, superior, sometimes callously blunt. Bringing ‘Normal People’ to Sexy, Soundtracked Life 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z “Zola,” for all its displays of candor and bravado, both intellectualizes and literalizes what might have happened that weekend, and mutes the blunt poetry of King’s voice. ‘Zola’ Review: Twitter? I Hardly Know Her! 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z The wording of Seattle’s budget announcement was intentionally blunt to serve as a strong message to a city that should not take its opera’s continued existence for granted. Critic’s Notebook: U.S. Opera Companies, Notably in Seattle, Face Money Trouble 2012-08-08T22:30:39Z Her message is blunt and bleak: “Love was not enough in the end, not that kind of love.” ‘Sisters’ Builds a Gothic Plot to an Artful and Shocking Climax 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Where the films were blunt, compact delivery systems for standard action-horror situations — a family defending its home, a band of strangers joining to survive a journey — TV has different requirements. Review: ‘The Purge,’ Tamed for Television 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z The brand of blunt, no-gray-area debate that Limbaugh popularized spread, from cable television to congressional town hall meetings, from voracious debates over health care to the rallies of the tea party movement. Rush Limbaugh, radio king and architect of right wing, dies 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Polyvore is a useful site for people, but it does, as Ms. Jacobs’s reporting suggested, reflect a remote, blunt, user-friendly time. Thinning Out 2010-03-25T14:24:00Z George Moore and Francis Stuart, for example, may as well have written with the blunt end of a burnt stick, their styles — or un-styles — utterly lacking in melody. Colin Farrell Joins the League of High-Profile Narrators of ‘A Portrait of the Artist’ 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Hamer’s unscripted account of her jail experience, with its blunt challenge — “I question America” — is overwhelming: dark and incandescent. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Lowry could be blunt, overly frank; he took pride in his plain-speaking, his dislike of pretension. LS Lowry: the people's artist comes in from the cold 2013-06-08T23:05:10Z A blunt confrontation between blaring cartoon characters in a big, garish mural by Ellen Berkenblit oscillates between raucous play and the deadly law of the jungle. The 'Grind' of city life at Various Small Fires 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z He is a far more labored rapper than YG, and his lyrics are blunt. New Albums From YG and Sage the Gemini 2014-03-19T17:52:29Z So, too, is the often blunt, direct way in which Chicago illustrates those fears. Review | Judy Chicago doesn’t have time for games. The planet is dying, and so are we. 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z But the goat-headed Abyzou, unlike many supernatural beings in the genre, provides blunt frights that are appealingly less invested in elaborate stagecraft than in pure devastation. ‘The Offering’ Review: A Demon in the Family 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Not exactly, and probably the most useful conclusion to draw is that a star system is a pretty blunt instrument for detailing what you like or don't like about an artist. Take Five: John Fordham's month in jazz – September 2012-09-28T08:00:00Z Its ambition is not just determined by its founder’s blunt motto, “Think,” but by the bland slogan used to name the company’s centennial history book, which appears throughout the show: “Making the World Work Better.” Exhibition Review: ?Think? at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-09-23T23:19:41Z Lead guitarist Keith Richards, whose survival has surprised many who thought he would succumb to drugs and drink, was blunter: "We made it," he said. Rolling Stones storm London; New York next 2012-11-26T17:16:06Z Stewart's honing of "The Daily Show" into a blunt force instrument wrapped in punchlines served a purpose that wasn't being fulfilled by "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" or other broadcast late-night talk shows. How September 11, 2001 became the borderline dividing two eras of late-night comedy 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik was more blunt earlier this month: “The competition to be the first billionaire in space should mark a milestone in the towering vanity of the wealthy,” he wrote. Billionaires in space: The launch of a dream or just out-of-this-world ego? 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z So a historically comically blunt you would offer a fudge cheesecake recipe to your mom as, “Let’s try for gag-free gluten-free.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Such sweet sorrow, an aging mom loses her baking touch 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Drake, 44, who was in her 20s when she moved to Louisville with her daughter, Brianna, is blunt, warm, funny and extremely busy. On a Kentucky Riverbank, a Path to Remembrance 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Martin, 44, is blunt about the toll this environmental crisis has already taken. On the Cajun Coast, a Chef Grapples With Threats to a Seafood Tradition 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Stripped of bombast and weepy self-pity, it became a blunt expression of how, in her words, “the dream changes as you get older.” Randy Graff Turns Nostalgic in ‘Made in Brooklyn Revisited’ 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The guy is prosperous but also finicky, petty and blunt. Review: Hero of 'All My Children' broke up but can't let go 2010-06-03T17:52:00Z “There’s a blunt positivity in Burgundians and definitely in Colette’s writing, which is also recognizable in the architecture,” she replied. Colette’s Burgundy 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Carefully run a blunt knife around the edges of the cake and remove the sides of the springform pan. | What's Really Cooking in Paris? 2010-10-20T19:03:00Z The tweets were the latest, and perhaps the bluntest, criticisms of Fox that Trump has broadcast to his nearly 64 million Twitter followers, despite unwavering support from Fox’s top-rated opinion programs. Trump blasts Fox News as arm of the Democratic party - The Washington Post 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z His blunt quotations appear in video footage in the exhibition “Byrd/Skolnick: A Tale of Two Posters,” on view through July 22 at the Museum at Bethel Woods in Bethel, N.Y. Antiques: Roman Forum Church, Santa Maria Antiqua 2012-06-14T21:10:47Z Mr. Schulz points to steps the center is taking to blunt the environmental toll of its snow-making. Pursuits: Creating Winter for Cross-Country Skiers 2012-12-06T18:45:56Z The homemade signs at the march ranged from the blunt — “Burn It Down” and “Black Trans Artists’ Lives Matter” — to the theatrical, including “We Got Trouble” and “This is Literally the Plot of ‘Newsies.’” Hundreds of theater workers demand change in Times Square 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement What we see is awful, but the vagueness of the setting blunts the film’s political and moral impact. Review: ‘Beasts of No Nation,’ a Brutal Tale of Child Soldiers in Africa 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Their response was impudent, blunt, and charged with chutzpah. Perspective | Gordon Parks went back to Rio to save a boy’s life. What happened next was a lot more complicated. 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Some of the men, too, are presented as complicated and layered, a blunt reminder that an ally is a powerful asset when a marginalized person is facing off against institutionalized powers. ‘The Women’s War’ Is an Epic Feminist Fantasy for the #MeToo Era 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Harris excels at telling stories through that style, though his symbolism can be blunt, like the costume change halfway through from colorful street clothes into billowy white. Review: Alvin Ailey’s ‘Awakening’ Projects a Sense of Fight-or-Flight 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z But Mr. Fallon took plenty of criticism for the Thursday interview, and Ms. Bee’s monologue was perhaps the bluntest denunciation of it so far. Samantha Bee Condemns NBC and Jimmy Fallon’s Trump Interview 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z But as the show went on, Noah’s bland, gee-whiz tone felt more and more like an unfortunate overcorrection, blunting the edges of his jokes such that they hardly had an impact at all. Best and Worst Moments From the 2022 Grammys 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z In “Black Skinhead” he snarls, “I’ve been a menace for the longest/But I ain’t finished, I’m devoted,” over a track that switches between a blunt glam-rock drumbeat and a distorted synthesizer line. Music Review: ‘Yeezus,’ Kanye West’s Raw and Jolting New Album 2013-06-16T18:25:47Z The coach added: “What’s that teaching kids? It’s okay to lose . . . I mean, not to be too blunt, but you’re a loser.” With or without trophies, youth sports need to be fun 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Stritch finally got her Tony at age 77, in 2002, for the autobiographical one-woman show “At Liberty,” which triumphantly cemented her public image as “Broadway’s enduring dame”: brazen, boozy and blunt. Review | Elaine Stritch biography takes a gossipy, once-over-lightly approach 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z She pulled the bag out with a laugh intended to blunt my coming scold. My heroin addict friend: 'When Shelly starts using again, I will be there for her' 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z And the MTV show's second episode, which revolves mostly around Tea, single-handedly blunts complaints that the remake is just redoing the British show with different accents and locations and a less authoritative cast. "Skins'" salacious teen thrills 2011-01-18T16:53:00Z It’s a paradox starkly rendered in fabric by the first of Jonathan Anderson’s costumes, velvety-soft, floor-length gowns that jut out at harsh angles, like front-turned bustles whose bell curves have been replaced by blunt machetes. Review: Sounds and Styles Playfully Collide in ‘Only an Octave Apart’ 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Then the wig, a blunt bob with bangs Ruiz trimmed herself. Beetlejuices, Beetlejuices, Beetlejuices, All Over Broadway 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z But Pelley, 59, despite his calm delivery, is dogged, night after night — and far blunter. Perspective | Scott Pelley is pulling no punches on the nightly news — and people are taking notice 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z But it has none of the rigorous stylization of Rivera’s work, none of the blunt, slightly patronizing distance between the artist and subject. Detroit museum roars back with powerful exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Harrison doesn’t work with such blunt blocks of exposition, but by indirection. Review: In ‘Marjorie Prime,’ Lois Smith Connects With the Past 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Pileggi once noted that they were both "thick-skinned enough to swap some very blunt criticism without fomenting marital strife". Nicholas Pileggi: the mob, Nora Epron's death and Vegas 2013-02-03T07:02:31Z Irving's "blunt politicking for full understanding of gay and transgendered identity sits uncomfortably with his zany side", she argued. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-06-08T21:55:18Z As may be gleaned from these snippets, the humor tends toward the blunt and trades on pretty well-worn stereotypes. ‘Pageant,’ a Musical Parody, Is Revived 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z That is perhaps the bluntest declaration of the central theme here. Review: ‘War,’ a Deathbed Drama About Identity by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Yet its famed "cutting edge" is really quite blunt. Is Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg really the new face of feminism? 2013-03-17T00:05:51Z The numbers also allow her to offer empirical grounding for her work while she makes her way toward some blunt conclusions: “Today, the Republican Party is behaving like a predatory faction.” ‘How Civil Wars Start,’ a Warning About the State of the Union 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z She brought warmth, fear and eloquence back to a character that can often be merely blunt, then followed up the feat in September, conjuring a seductive yet implacable Amneris in Verdi’s “Aida.” The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z At its worst it seeks movies from across the globe, some of which, to be blunt, are not ready for prime time. Critic?s Notebook: Awkward Embraces, Assured Directors 2011-03-27T21:52:50Z The main thrust of its symbolism is blunt enough: This building protects American heritage. Perspective | The National Archives used to stand for independence. That mission has been compromised. 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z “There is never a wasted word, no debris, no flourish to hide behind. A voice this unadorned, and blunt, is so hauntingly stubborn and original, you want to hear from it again and again.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Gory battles are presented mostly in blunt, straightforward descriptions. ‘The Orenda’: blood and vengeance on Canada’s frontier 2014-05-07T20:15:44Z Ms. Bennett herself was blunter when guessing why she was chosen to play Garland instead of better-known actresses who might sell tickets on their names alone. Tracie Bennett as Judy Garland in ?End of the Rainbow? 2012-03-30T15:00:00Z He also declined to address how he felt about the magazine’s blunt judgment, in the editor’s note, that the language of his poem was “disparaging.” A Poem in The Nation Spurs a Backlash and an Apology 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Her voice is raspily matter-of-fact and her guitar delivers a blunt, distorted riff — grunge with a twang — as bass and drums thump along. The Playlist: Beck Wows, the Avalanches Collapse and Kanye West Finds a Few Champions 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The characters switch in blunt succession from heroism to horror, piety to brutality. The Bolshoi Ballet: Spartacus 2010-07-20T13:45:00Z Wilson was refreshingly blunt, zeroing in on a weak line after a student sang a few bars and questioning another’s assumptions about the musical “Anything Goes” by shooting back “You haven’t done your homework.” ‘The World Goes Away’ and Other Lessons From Online Acting Class 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Cannavale cloaks Lucas, a research scientist, in suave, even arrogant reserve: His blunt and callous explanations for why he’s taken up with Clara amount to aggressions masked as honesty; they seem invitations to revenge. Review | Beware. This stylish ‘Medea’ adaptation offers no escape, for Rose Byrne or for you. 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z In a bid to blunt profiteering — the widespread scalping of tickets at highly marked-up prices — the show may soon raise prices above the current ceiling of $475 for premium seating. ‘Hamilton’ Inc.: The Path to a Billion-Dollar Show 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z "Body Worlds" is frank, almost blunt in treating people as tissue, as matter to be manipulated. Third visit still a charm for 'Body Worlds' 2011-03-18T17:38:00Z “What kind of apple is that?” asked the 23-year-old with blunt bangs and big brown eyes peering at him through his laptop screen. The Star of This $70 Million Sci-Fi Film Is a Robot 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Now he is blunt, detailing lives that also held secrets people knew but didn’t at the same time. Jerrod Carmichael Comes Out in a Riveting Special That’s About So Much More 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z But with their heavy outlines, and the riot of color and pattern that surround them, they inhabit the image with a forceful, blunt, plain-spoken insistence. Review | Suzanne Valadon modeled for some of the world’s greatest artists. Then she became one. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Ki-woo crosses the threshold into another world, one of cultivated sensitivities and warmly polished surfaces that are at once signifiers of bourgeois success and blunt reproaches to his own family’s deprivation. ‘Parasite’ Review: The Lower Depths Rise With a Vengeance 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z To that end “The Stimulus Package” reflects a blunt purpose: economic recovery scaled back to a single career. Playlist: Making Mischief Along With the Melodies 2010-02-27T03:47:00Z The absence of a scholarly catalog — or any publication at all, even so much as a brochure — isn’t all that blunts the show’s usefulness. MOCA's Gaetano Pesce exhibition stumbles across a bright ethical line 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z When EW published the interview, it didn’t blunt criticism but did add an actor’s perspective. Sophie Turner Grows Into Her Powers in 'Game of Thrones' and 'X-Men' 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The film is blunt, repetitive – maddeningly at first, then hypnotically – and deeply weird. Second showing: unearthing the lost history of African American cinema 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z “Slater doesn’t demonize the imperfect remedies of the past or present — even as she describes their costs with blunt severity.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Then -- in a first-of-its-kind move in presidential candidacy announcement videos -- he rolls a blunt and smokes it. Waka Flocka Flame's presidential campaign: Where does he stand on the issues? 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z He had solo shows at a couple of small Los Angeles galleries — Club Pro in 2017 and M+B gallery in 2019, with work that The Los Angeles Times called “refreshingly blunt.” He Likes ‘Staying Under the Radar,’ but His Art Is Getting Noticed 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Initially incredulous and unsettled at some of what he sees at the club, Adam changes his mind after he’s pushed onstage and, to the blunt throbbing of “Like a Virgin,” strips. Movie Review: ‘Magic Mike,’ by Steven Soderbergh, With Channing Tatum 2012-06-28T21:57:03Z Though the choreography was scattered and the themes a little blunt, “Aziza” felt like the beginning of an important search. Rakiya A. Orange and Alex Rodabaugh Works at Gibney Dance 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z “This claim is wrong,” is the blunt reply from Mr. Ball. ‘The Fed and Lehman Brothers’ Review: When the Bailouts Stopped 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z In language that is by turns blunt and poetic, crudely funny and incantatory, Ms. Okpokwasili conjures and probes this adolescent friendship, a jumble of insults, anger and love. Theater Review: In ‘Bronx Gothic,’ Lessons About Growing Up Female 2014-01-15T22:27:44Z The word “extinction” is a blunt instrument that whacks at complacency. How should we talk about what’s happening to our planet? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Its irregular skyline is intended to be less brutal to views from Hyde Park than Bowater House, which was higher and blunter. One Hyde Park ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:43Z But the speech on Friday was a strikingly blunt statement for the entertainer, who, if only briefly, had no intention of entertaining. ‘To Age Is a Sin’: In Blunt Speech, Madonna Confronts Bias in Various Forms 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z It’s asking too much of these young comics to display Letterman’s light touch, but also, our current internet age demands a blunter tone. Stand-Up Sets Where You Can Choose Your Own Adventure 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The two of them were and are greedy and shortsighted, repeating the classic tendency among those ill-suited for power to use it as a blunt instrument instead of governing for the many. "What We Do in the Shadows" prepared us for the disbelief that met the latest Jan. 6 indictment 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Lee Sun-kyun said that you are both “a little blunt, but very deep.” Why ‘Dr. Brain’ Is More Subdued Than Sensational 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z But this is the situation now being spun by the president, in exactly those blunt, cartoonish terms. Why Universal shouldn't have cancelled The Hunt 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z As is not unusual in contemporary art cinema, this quality blunts emotional impact. ‘Out Stealing Horses’ Review: Old Man, Take a Look at Your Life 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z When I ask her about it she is simple and blunt: “It was horrid. Just horrid.” With drugs, there are no good choices, only less awful ones 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z But other sections aren’t really swinging; instead, they suggest the blunt attack of American Minimalism. David Sanford’s Music Has Flown Under the Radar. It Shouldn’t. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Four decades ago, however, he probably couldn’t have gotten away with featuring blunt dialogue that illustrates what it is to be fated to be viewed as a foreigner in one’s own place of birth. "Warrior" brings Bruce Lee's TV pitch to life, vividly and violently 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z But even her blunt jokes are always slightly off kilter, focusing more on bizarre turns than on an explosive climax. Maria Bamford’s New Special Is a Kind of Inspired Gibberish 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z He also wanted Bond to be a “blunt instrument.” Review: In ‘Spectre,’ Daniel Craig Returns as James Bond 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z A recent picture that Rihanna uploaded to her Instagram shows her wearing a jacket from Chanel, a brand she is often associated with, with her hair flawlessly coifed and an enormous blunt in her hand. Cultural Studies: For Young Female Pop Stars, Marijuana Use Ties Into Endorsements 2012-12-08T00:32:21Z We rushed online, trying to blunt the impact of our solitary confinements by finding other people to be with. Let’s Stigmatize the Internet 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Using the same tools to search for a friend reveals how truly blunt they are. We just clicked: why I set out to find a new group of friends online 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z On a recent afternoon, sitting at a table outside the Sanibel Grill, which roof and water damage kept closed for months, the mayor of Sanibel, Holly Smith, 61, was blunt. ‘There’s No Spring Break Here’: Florida’s Gulf Coast Fights to Rebound After Hurricane Ian 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Yet here is the Croz, incessantly muttering blunt answers to inane queries, as if no one has told him that he doesn’t have to reply. David Crosby Celebrates His Ornery Self in the Documentary “Remember My Name” 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z A White House press aide to Obama offers a blunter assessment: Trump, no fan of reporters, has decided that he doesn’t want his spokespeople to say much to them. ‘I have no idea’: The White House’s spokesmen aren’t speaking much these days 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z As portrayed by Lily Knight with a New York accent and an overly blunt demeanor, this pint-size dynamo in a hard hat has a short fuse when it comes to slip-ups and slacking off. Lily Knight sets 'A Small Fire' aglow with her performance 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z There is a sizable Crist contingent working in journalism today — critics, essayists and writers who were driven to write savvier, and think bigger, by this professor’s blunt assessments. Remembering Judith Crist, Savage Critic and Inspirational Mentor: One Student’s Appreciation 2012-08-07T22:14:56Z Moments in his stories that walk up to, or just beyond, the line of acceptable public sentimentality are often followed by blunt humor. The Human Comedy of Adam Wade 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z “She rose fast in a business that was then dominated by men. She outmanned many of them: she was the toughest negotiator, the bluntest adversary, the nerviest deal maker,” Orlean writes. Sunday Reading: Hollywood Stories 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Helvetica is simple in shape with no decorative details; like New Yorkers it is tough, blunt and pragmatic. Design: New York Subway's Long Dance With a Typeface 2011-04-03T15:00:06Z The homeless, referred to as “the tramp class” in a blunter era, vexed the middle class just as they do now. America’s Most Famous Street 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Of course — which forces the critic to seek some other form of parsing the problem, something that isn’t quantifiable in blunt terms. Perspective | How record-setting art auctions are ruining the old neighborhood 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Capitol on Tuesday were exposed to the sort of blunt language, including profanity and racial slurs, rarely heard on daytime television. Hearing exposes TV viewers to blunt language, racial slurs 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z The blunt name-calling in The French Connection isn't exactly a one-off. Has film really outgrown racism? 2011-08-01T10:18:35Z He describes macaroni as "the blunt, midget-like, pug-nosed cousin" of spaghetti. Calcutta: Two Years in the City by Amit Chaudhuri – review 2013-04-06T06:01:32Z Sometimes, as on “Scared Now,” he’s happily reliant on blunt force: “Put three holes in his head like a bowling ball.” New Music: The Game, Eric Revis and Ryan Blotnick: New Albums 2012-12-24T22:49:33Z That’s the blunt assessment of yet another self-help author from abroad who is trying to get Americans, who have an addiction to collecting and storage units, to clean up their acts. Americans are pack rats. Swedes have the solution: ‘Death cleaning.’ 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Frothy, goofy, blunt and cynical, “Love Island” is the summertime reality bimbo of series America deserves — hot, temporary, and yet cognizant that it embodies every assumption about the genre's dumbness. Are you watching "Love Island"? It's the feel-superior hit of the summer 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Their second album Burning Your House Down is a blunt instrument, but it can also be a surprisingly versatile one. This week's new live music 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z Temperamentally, Gabriela Hearst comes across as sure-footed and blunt; accommodating but without a golden retriever’s need to please. Gabriela Hearst is dressing women for a new era of political power 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z “If you have an open mic in Kreuzberg,” he said, referring to a hip Berlin neighborhood, “and you’re standing there with a blunt, normally you don’t go to a musical later in the night.” They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z In her statement Thursday, Bloom called Weinstein an “old dinosaur learning new ways”, adding: “I have been blunt with Harvey and he has listened to me.” 'We're all complicit': Were the Harvey Weinstein allegations an open secret? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z The military leaders on the British side are depicted as empathetic and wise; they are serious and blunt, to be sure, but only because circumstances demand that of them. "1917" has one major flaw - it's irresponsibly nationalistic 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z One man fumbled around with a blunt ax. Inside the Ring of Underground Wrestling 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Camera angles tend to show either too much or too little visual information, making it difficult to tell what exactly is happening and, at times, blunting the effect of a sight gag. Review: Film ‘A Walk in the Woods’ is a slightly more serious diversion 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z She has been described as unemotive, but I have found her focus endearing: it’s made her a better judge of character, or at least a blunter one, than most contestants usually are. Sleep with the hot one! 2012-07-10T16:30:00Z Sex, drugs and heartbreak line the path to a sadder, wiser understanding of life, in which youthful rage and idealism are blunted but not entirely abandoned. Movie Review: ‘Something in the Air,’ directed by Olivier Assayas 2013-05-02T23:51:05Z “I’m in rapture, there is no cure/No sanctuary from your allure,” he sang over the blunt beat of “Voodoo.” Music Review: Adam Lambert?s Message at the Nokia Theater 2010-06-23T22:04:00Z Is about as blunt of a reply as one could hope for. Lensa is turning us into AI thirst trappers with its ubiquitous portrait app 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Callous movie and television mothers bring in lawyers in divorce and custody cases to act as blunt instruments against their negligent — but always affable –husbands. Jill Abramson was right to get a lawyer: “Pushy” women get paid 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Moore, dispatching early fears that she might use her strong voice as merely a blunt instrument in portraying Lady Macbeth, settled into a variety of modes of expression, and even showed vulnerability at times. At Glimmerglass Festival, ‘The Magic Flute’ Is Among the Reimagined 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Sanders, President Trump’s former chief spokeswoman, could be blunt in taking on the president’s critics and perceived enemies, including people in the media. What kind of White House press secretary calls her boss’s critics human scum? Stephanie Grisham. 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z The other was slightly more blunt about it: “I think you should be a Mormon,” she said, smiling. Becoming a Salt Lake City Convert 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Related: I, Daniel Blake review: Ken Loach's welfare state polemic is blunt, dignified and brutally moving Elsewhere, the politics of Cannes manifested themselves in the auteurs’ individual statements. Cannes 2016: Peter Bradshaw's festival verdict and award predictions 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Thug ashed a blunt into a ramen container while his director, Be El Be, set up the lighting. Weathering Young Thug’s Tornado 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Dorothea Rockburne’s 1970 studies for a larger work titled “Scalar” combine crude oil, pasteboard and paper for a painterly beauty that is random, blunt and complex, a good example to build on. Art in Review: ‘Conspicuous Unusable’ 2013-08-08T20:17:18Z Traub captures his human specimens in blunt closeup, their personalities fixed to the page in extravagant, often merciless, detail. Lunchtime Portraits: The Passing Parade 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z When I pressed a blunt pin to his leg, he could not feel it. 'You think I'm mad?' – the truth about psychosomatic illness 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z That song, a blunt, anguished, barely metaphorical reckoning with the intimate psychic violence of racism and sexism, is performed several times by Noni, the film’s suffering pop star. ‘Beyond the Lights,’ a Diva’s Romance 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Economic historians have tended to focus on how market forces blunted the worst aspects of slavery, Mr. Naidu said, but Mr. Baptist demonstrates how the drive for profit exacerbated physical punishment and forced migration. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Katie was blunter: “I originally thought you were slightly crazy because I wasn’t sure how eating with a stranger would build community and pictured everything that could’ve gone wrong.” Teaching civility: two daring assignments Eating protein blunts the production of seratonin, but, according to Wurtman, once you consume a ratio of 4 parts carbohydrate to 1 part protein, the blunting effect is overridden. The turkey is not to blame for your Thanksgiving ‘food coma’ Why do you favor such a blunt approach? Bawdy Provocations 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z This may be blunter than you’d like, but sometimes there’s no alternative to the corrective slap of reality. Social Q?s: Friends Who Invite Themselves 2010-05-28T23:12:00Z Cortez’s “The Lakota Porch: A Time Traveler” is a blunt sculptural essay in determination not to disappear from memory. 2017 California-Pacific Triennial at OCMA: The art of building up (and tearing down) 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z What, to put it in blunt terms, is the payoff? Does world travel make CSO first-class? 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Immediately before and after describing his drunken car ride, Hopps talks about art, in his characteristically granular way: Lobdell’s paintings are full of “blunt and atavistic” biomorphism, hovering “right on the edge of abstraction.” The remarkable curator Walter Hopps and the less than perfect book about him, 'The Dream Colony' 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Where Rachel’s manipulation is a scalpel, Quinn’s is a blunt instrument. ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 3: War Is Easy 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z “Limited kinetic action” is a polite way of saying “war,” and “collateral damage” does not sound as blunt as “dead children.” Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z Fleming created somebody and famously described him as a blunt instrument, and someone said why do you call him James Bond and he said because they’re the dullest names I could think of. Skyfall Director Sam Mendes on Reinventing James Bond and His Favorite Scenes 2012-11-23T10:43:46Z The style is defined by its blunt edge, often angled longer in front, reaching somewhere between the earlobe and the collarbone. Bye to ‘Real Housewife’ Hair 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Ms. Wever gives a blunt, monotonous performance as the strident Molly. Theater Review | 'The Female of the Species': She?s So Under the Gun, She Can?t Leave Her Desk 2010-03-01T05:40:00Z “I’ve endured my share of male strip-you-bare eyework,” Phoebe reflects, when she and Heist first size each other up, “but this was more existentially blunt, souls meeting in a sunstruck clearing.” In “The Feral Detective,” Jonathan Lethem Returns to Detective Noir for the Trump Era 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z People typically don’t care about city politics because, to be completely blunt, it’s boring. “You tell me that the riots are a good thing? F*ck you. Come to Baltimore and say that”: David Simon on police brutality, the legacy of “The Wire” and the future of American cities 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z The gurus of screenwriting tend to employ many blunt maxims and strictures. I was a screenwriting guru groupie 2012-11-24T15:00:00Z The fact that you can now stand on either side of this image — view its picture of racial exclusion, so to speak, from the inside or from the outside — doesn’t change how blunt it is. David Hammons, Body and Soul, at the Drawing Center 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Instead, French Montana is a Waka Flocka Flame for New York: dark, blunt, rowdy, a little clumsy and, over time, oddly effective. Playlist: New Music by the Singer Mariah McManus 2011-12-23T14:33:58Z That "trending" column, that "most read" list, they tell you in blunt and sometimes dismaying frankness where our mental and emotional priorities seem to lie. Against attention scolding: Stop policing people’s so-called distractions 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Another guest was more blunt: “It’s so great because it’s sexist.” ‘A married man’s fantasy’: The unapologetically sexist, wildly successful Fight Night changes course 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Reader reactions range from dreamy haikulike word chains to blunt endorsements or dismissals to complaints. ArtsBeat: Art Critic Meets a Tough Crowd 2011-06-15T19:01:58Z First used for the Donmar Warehouse production starring Zoë Wanamaker, which was eventually seen on Broadway, it’s pungent and blunt, but lacking in lyricism, and that flaw seems more evident here. ‘Electra’ Stars Kristin Scott Thomas at the Old Vic Theater 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z In the beginning, social platforms tend to be blunt about what matters, minting new currencies with likes or shares, comments or reposts, followers or reach. Is There a Secret to Success on Instagram? 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z But in her blunt new book, Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth, Brzezinski reveals that like many women, she found herself underpaid and underappreciated in her job. Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski On Being An Underpaid Woman And How To Fight Back 2011-06-03T18:55:00Z And, after a blunt auction announcement that proclaimed a sale “to the bare walls,” there is no hope for a revival. Dinner Is No Longer Served: Theater That Built Careers Is Gone 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Instead, Letterman blunted the $2 million blackmail threat by confessing on his show. Effects of Letterman blackmail case hard to judge 2010-05-03T18:10:00Z The profanity and sexual imagery can be blunt, often unrelentingly so, and their juxtaposition with laid-back, almost Bill Cosby-like domestic scenes is as ungainly as it is fresh. "Louie's" hilarious, poignant return 2011-06-23T11:24:00Z These are blunt tools to attune sound to sensitive ears. Review: Equalizer apps work better than Clari-Fi 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z There’s only so much blunt cruelty a viewer can endure. Review | ‘Righteous Gemstones’ misses a golden opportunity to satirize evangelical piety 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z His New York Times obituary from 2012 begins with the blunt statement that he “exerted an influence on the history of film that few other non-filmmakers can claim.” A Master of Mixing and Matching Movies Gets a Citywide Tribute 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z A new musical adaptation trades Fitzgerald’s subtle blend for a blunter approach. ‘The Great Gatsby’ Review: A Musical Take on Tragic Desire 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z It may be blunt, but it’s a weapon nonetheless. Making America Gory Again: how the Purge films troll Trumpism 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Marie Mates and Jenny Heath, who lay sprawled expectantly on a picnic rug near the big screens in Hyde Park, were blunt about why they had ended up the park rather than the palace. Jubilee concert: big noise and a big gap as duke misses date with pop royalty 2012-06-04T22:37:22Z In the ’60s the cold war inspired shows that tapped into, then blunted, people’s worst fears about nuclear annihilation. 2010-01-15T04:09:00Z He also finds that the blunt bluster that he used to get his way in the old days doesn’t work so well now that he’s an aging ex-con. A Global TV Tour via Streaming: England, Australia and New Zealand 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z The blunt smell of dung and oil lamps. In Roger Rosenblatt’s ‘Thomas Murphy,’ a poet refuses to go quietly 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z “The actresses are not treated kindly, either by the material or by the camera,” was Vincent Canby’s blunt assessment in his review in The New York Times. The Week Ahead: July 10 ? 16 2011-07-07T20:15:40Z The dialogue is functional, the characters sketched in blunt, bold outlines. | 'Battle: Los Angeles': City of Angels Resists Becoming City of Aliens (the Outer-Space Type) 2011-03-11T00:59:25Z Here, that unclassifiable quality has been blunted and contained, and Salander made into another blandly tough chick. ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ Review: Lisbeth Salander, Blunted in Tooth and Claw 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z His jokes are blunter, in the usual locker-room style of a network football show. Zaniness of 'Inside the N.B.A.' Doesn’t Depend on the Score 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z “To me it doesn’t seem incongruous; Neil’s not a misogynist,” Ms. Stiles said of the writer whose characters can be savagely blunt and brutish. ?Dexter? and ?Persephone? in Julia Stiles?s Second Phase 2010-07-18T03:12:00Z The artists, based in L.A., make their elaborate digital collages with surgical precision and sophistication, but the visual impact of what results has the blunt force of a hammer. Simmons & Burke's newest at Kohn: Digital collages that dazzle and daunt 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z The scripts and the direction hold the viewer’s hand, using melodramatic scoring and imagery and blunt dialogue. Review: ‘Genius: Aretha’ Speaks Loudest When It Sings 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z On the page, its words can seem as blunt and cipher-like as notes on a musical staff. Review: In an Energized ‘Iceman,’ the Drinks are on Denzel 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Maria Santiago, 54, died from multiple blunt trauma and strangulation, according to authorities. Prosecutors: Man set woman on fire, napped 2011-11-05T19:04:00Z We learn the upside of fangs as Tara rips a sizeable chunk of Franklin's neck with those blunt human teeth of hers. "True Blood" recap: Girls get even 2010-07-26T12:15:00Z Papi is both empathetic and blunt, validating those who contact him while still seizing opportunities to poke fun at them. ‘¡Hola Papi!’ advice columnist John Paul Brammer is ready to show his true self 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z But even a blunt instrument, Miss King made plain, admirably served her desired ends. Florence King, Writer Who Wielded an Acerbic Wit, Dies at 80 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Its blunt force underlines the universality of racist violence. Making Black Lives, Not Just Black Deaths, Matter Onstage 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z It also unsettled the usual way of seeing things, with the snapshot framing life in blunt, confrontational, surprising and sometimes contorted ways. Toulouse-Lautrec: A master of branding, a lover of celebrity 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z That harsh sentiment, a classic bit of Mametian blunt speak, might earn a particularly sympathetic hearing from the friends of the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid. 2010-01-29T03:33:00Z Such casually blunt questions are a hallmark of “Armchair Expert,” Mr. Shepard’s interview podcast, which premiered in 2018. Dax Shepard Is Listening 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z “It’s the same thing with remembering that you’re mortal. You forget, so you need something strong, someone telling you straight out, being blunt about it.” Outing Death 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Rising to head for a cigarette, Gallagher delivers his blunt, bullish and not inaccurate summing up. After Oasis, Beady Eye begin their journey 2011-02-17T21:31:00Z The booking is clearly an attempt to blunt the impact of "Today" alumna Katie Couric's weeklong return to morning TV as a guest host on ABC's "Good Morning America." Sarah Palin to co-host NBC's 'Today' on Tuesday 2012-04-02T04:00:09Z This remarkable book’s secret weapon is its protagonist, Welsh police detective Fiona Griffiths: blunt, blue collar, slightly unhinged — and with an unnamed, haunting “illness” in her past. Adam Woog’s best mysteries of 2012 2012-12-07T00:24:05Z He did not attend the ceremony, and when an interviewer afterward asked him what the award meant to him, he was blunt. Jean-Luc Godard, Daring Director Who Shaped the French New Wave, Dies at 91 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z She then repeated an earlier movement phrase, its power blunted and warped by the padding. Dance Review: Kyle Abraham, Samantha Speis and Marjani Fort? at Danspace 2012-03-23T22:04:11Z But his voice as an improviser was recognizably the same as on one of his earliest and best-known albums, the free-jazz touchstone “Machine Gun,” which landed as a blunt provocation in 1968. Music Review: A Kind of Orthodoxy Built on Improvisation 2011-06-09T22:53:47Z This tension is captured in Powa, where the blunted chords of the verses bloom into a cloud of woozy dub harmonies at the bridge. Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus on life after lo-fi 2011-04-07T21:29:00Z By evening, some cable newscasters had become far more blunt. Perspective | The words Trump uses, and the words the media must use in response 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z She was blunt about the professional and personal burdens on women: “It’s not humanly possible to be a good wife, a good mother and a first-class scientist.” David Quammen Turns Tough Science Into Page-Turning Pleasure 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Each outlines a "new" capitalism with its sharper teeth blunted, avarice expunged, fairness and social justice imprinted on its soul and innovation and entrepreneurship providing the rocket fuel. Progressive Capitalism by David Sainsbury; The Locust and the Bee by Geoff Mulgan – review 2013-05-04T14:00:04Z Mr. Manjoo studied recent cartoons, especially those from Pulitzer Prize winners, and declared: “Even the best ones traffic in blunt, one-dimensional jokes, rarely exhibiting nuance, irony or subtext.” Books of The Times: ‘The Art of Controversy’ by Victor Navasky 2013-05-23T21:40:02Z What follows, in Alan Bennett's teasing and very clever miniature, is a conversation about fakes and forgeries in which the blunt truth is always evaded. This week's new theatre 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z Early modernism, unveiled in the blunt façades of Wagner and Loos, the corpselike faces of Kokoschka and Schiele, and the eternally disorienting atonality of Schoenberg, goes a step further, rejecting society en masse. The Schorske Century 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z But by what scarily graphic and blunt route do we end at Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in “50/50” manipulating a surgery scar so that it “talks” like Kuato, the “Total Recall” humanoid? Comedians and Others Are Joking About Cancer 2011-10-07T19:57:27Z But “Falling Skies” lacks his personal touch — there’s no wonder, nor is there the blunt terror and grim plausibility of his own alien-invasion film, “War of the Worlds.” Television Review: It?s Might Versus Right Versus Space Monster 2011-06-16T22:15:15Z I was idealistic, passionate about what I believed, blunt in the expression of my ideas. Is my autism a superpower? 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z All the while, Rumsfeld produced his proverbs, doodling mystic marginalia in the pages of history, reducing war and torture and other awful realities into blunt queries and gruff turns of phrase. Perspective | ‘Nothing ever ends’: Sorting through Rumsfeld’s knowns and unknowns 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Upcoming scenes also showed Meyer, who often insults staff with blunt and off-color remarks, being confronted with anonymous complaints about her workplace behavior. Louis: Dreyfus vows 'Veep' character true to self until the end 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Truth is a quick and sharp knife, but it’s far less painful than the blunt bludgeoning of years of lies. My Boyfriend Messaged Someone on a Gay Site. Does That Mean He’s Gay? 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The piece’s themes and resonances — the fragility of concord, the manifest dangers of extremist rhetoric — are blunt enough. Review: In Two Israeli Plays, the Promise of Peace Keeps Receding 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z The words are blunt and elegant as he leaps across these stages of his life. In 'Liar: A Memoir' Rob Roberge wrestles with the consequences of sex, drugs, and punk rock 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Serrated knives are also a great tomato-cutting tool if your chef knives or regular chopping knives are blunt from repeated use. An expert guide to summer tomatoes, from Beefsteak to Roma and Cherokee Purple 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z A mother of four young children, she’s soft-spoken and a bit guarded, but at times can be disarmingly blunt and funny. What to Do With a Multimillion-Dollar Megamansion? They Have Some Ideas. 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z All of the hard edges are blunted and softened, as if the composer couldn’t bear to put more darkness into the world. Review | After 100 years, a gentle Requiem has its premiere 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z They’re also blunt: A guy in a unitard pummels another guy — pow! — and saves the day, the girl and the studio. ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ and the Modern Comic Book Movie 2012-06-27T16:13:49Z But the radiant red and blue neon, which spirals like a hypnotic graphic from Hitchcock's "Vertigo," as if the true artist is circling the drain, casts it in the blunt visual language of street commerce. What is an artist? Peter Plagens' 'Bruce Nauman' illuminates 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Like its protagonist, sensitively and shrewdly played by Lakeith Stanfield, the film is soft-spoken and thoughtful, with sweet, lyrical touches that alleviate some of the grimness without blunting the cruelty and injustice of what happened. Review: In ‘Crown Heights,’ Justice Delayed and Denied 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The phrase served a blunt, potent role at protests and on social media, bolstering the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. A Cri de Coeur From Jazz Musicians in a Black Lives Matter Age 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z Watching him, it's easy to work out what Tina Fey saw in his offbeat, blunt and overwhelmingly funny comic mindset. This week's new live comedy 2013-06-01T05:00:00Z Donatella Versace doesn’t need to clone Rooney Mara, whose blunt style of bangs appeared on every model in her show on Friday night. Fashion Review: Collections from Milan Fashion Week, Prada, Fendi, MaxMara and Versace 2012-02-24T23:55:00Z It’s not powerful; it’s blunt, one-dimensional, stripped of complication. Review | Sam Mendes’s ‘Cabaret’ icy and not much fun at the Kennedy Center 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Wednesday’s remarkable episode, “Hope,” pulled off both about as well as you could imagine: It was funny but heartbreaking, nuanced but not mealy-mouthed, blunt but not despairing. With Police Brutality Episode, ‘black-ish’ Shows How Sitcoms Can Still Matter 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The title is sometimes said to be a blunt acronym that derives from Lamar’s lyric, “Me an Angel on Angel Dust.” Bursts of intensity within Kahlil Joseph's quotidian landscape at MOCA 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Unlike the blunt social media posts of Ye and Irving, this set was a work of art, elusive and layered, displaying finesse and paradox. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z But they are lying, to be blunt about it. The popularity of Bernie Sanders speaks volumes about Americans’ rejection of organized religion 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z He usually stood guard with his blunted pitchfork, chasing us away from the lower walls, where Tommy, Sophie and I played knights and knaves. George Craig: Shuttered Windows 2011-07-22T22:02:01Z Last November he responded to a dire US climate assessment by 13 government agencies and top scientists with the blunt words: “I don’t believe it.” Harrison Ford: leaders who deny climate change are 'on the wrong side of history' 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Jaylah speaks with a blunt intensity that’s sharpened with a constant tone of coolly theatrical irony, just as Dickinson does in Hawks’s film. A Quasi-American “Star Trek Beyond” 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Some statements were painfully blunt, like “Divorce is unfair” and “Become aware of who supports you and who doesn’t” and one I found particularly jarring: “Don’t underestimate how much you’re hurting on the inside.” A Program That Aims to Lead to Post-Divorce Peace 2012-12-15T00:39:25Z The movie is built like an escalating farce, rich in visual gags and sustained by machine-gun dialogue worthy of the best screwball comedies — albeit a lot blunter. The Roles Are L.G.B.T.Q., but the Movies Are Not About Self-Discovery 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z But familiarity hasn't blunted the company's power to shock and awe. Your biggest Bolshoi ballet moments – open thread 2013-07-29T10:30:08Z I will defend the right of critics to have strong opinions and unpopular opinions and to offer blunt and unflattering descriptions of performers. Male critics on female bodies: Tara Erraught, Liza Minnelli and intelligent reviewing “I’m a little nervous because I say some stuff that is blunt and is hard-core and is extremely politicized, and I’m a Black person in Arkansas,” Renata said. Onstage, ‘Designing Women’ Sheds the Shoulder Pads, Not Its Politics 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z One is toward a kind of blunt, unmediated realism, an urge to collect incidents and “explain them plain.” New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z A blunt, ugly sendup of class politics, the movie had sharply divided critics. ‘Triangle of Sadness’ wins Palme d’Or at Cannes. 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z Gov. Hogan is more blunt: “Obviously, the Preakness is important to the state,” he said in March. The Preakness has a storied past, but this woman wants to move it into the future 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Matamata caught its star, just barely, in 1998, when a farmer named Russell Alexander — jovial, bald and blunt — saw a stranger with binoculars peering across his land. New Zealand’s Hobbit Trail 2012-10-05T16:25:35Z A voice this unadorned, and blunt, is so hauntingly stubborn and original, you want to hear from it again and again. Her Mother Is Losing Her Mind but Not Her Talent for Humiliation 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z “We always say there’s a lot of movies in this movie,” offers Gordon, who has blunt Betty Page bangs and eyeliner that flicks up at the corners in a delicate cat’s-eye. How ‘The Big Sick’ makes arranged marriages, Muslim families and a coma perfect rom-com material 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z To get away, to blunt the anxiety that this disease has wreaked upon us, I wanted a change of scenery. Road Trips are Great. Except for the Driving. 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z The Clark County Office of Coroner/Medical Examiner said in a statement that the performer, Sarah Guillot-Guyard, died on Saturday night “from multiple blunt force trauma suffered when she fell approximately 90 feet.” ArtsBeat: Death of Cirque du Soleil Performer Was Accidental, Officials Say 2013-07-03T15:56:46Z Even grief is a blunt instrument in this torpid place. Happy Valley by Patrick White – review 2012-12-19T08:00:06Z Colin seems more resigned to it than Mitch, who never is far from a lighted blunt, never ashamed to hit on a passing female. 'Land Ho!' embarks on two men's adventures in Iceland 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z At root it is an explanation of why Eurasians run the world: not because of any innate racial superiority but because of blunt geographical and biological facts. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z The outrageous comedy of "Joan Is Awful" blunts whatever disquietude we may feel about the episode. The best new "Black Mirror" episode is a Netflix self-own that plays out our current AI nightmare 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Way never replicated that success, but it presaged popularity of rappers like Migos, Future and Young Thug, who also prize blunt simplicity over lyricism. Your week in Seattle music: Lady Gaga, Counting Crows, Lynyrd Skynyrd and more 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z It’s probably wrong to judge sea creatures based on a first impression, but, to be blunt, Sigmund is no Little Mermaid. Amazon’s Literary Forays for TV: ‘The Interestings’ and ‘The Last Tycoon’ 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Speaking of the recent legislation in Mississippi, Mr. Burton was blunt. Gary Burton Cancels Mississippi Show, Calling Legislation ‘An Attack’ 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z I was also thrown at first by “Pose’s” blunt, almost regressive style of storytelling, which favored sudsy melodrama and sprinklings of anachronistic dialogue with words and phrases from today. Review | ‘Pose’ returns, upgrading its ‘realness’ without sacrificing its glimmer or grit 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z The Bristol quintet’s sound mixes the blunt force of 1980s hardcore with stop-start dynamics, and Talbot, its charismatic leader, sings, speaks and growls with a bludgeoning force that is as honest as it is exhilarating. Idles Are Throwing a Post-Punk Revolution, and Everyone’s Invited 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z She's sitting there with no reaction on her face, I thought she was a little bit blunt and dumb, and she's always writing. The Carpetbagger: Forget the East-West Divide; It's Berlin Vs. Munich 2012-12-20T20:00:25Z Cronenberg is, I think, telegraphing what kind of movie you’re about to watch: He will not be taking any prisoners or blunting the story’s edges. ‘Crimes of the Future’ Review: The Horror, the Horror 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z I am the lens through which she exists, I am the axe of the bluntest Hollywood satire. Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk 2010-07-26T21:30:00Z Describing with blunt simplicity the intensity of the backbreaking toil and squalid existence of Andy and his ilk, McNeillie creates a bleak tableau of deprivation and depravity. Wigtown Ploughman: Part of His Life by John McNeillie - review 2012-11-13T16:55:01Z He used his body as a blunt instrument, invading other politicians’ personal space to assert his power. A video of Beto O’Rourke’s wild hand gestures went viral. Does distinctive body language help or hurt a candidate? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z But in 2008, during a yearlong sabbatical in Indonesia that he chose to devote mostly to making furniture, he received some blunt feedback from a close friend. Stefan Sagmeister?s ?Happy Show? at Institute of Contemporary Art 2012-04-03T12:00:00Z The way it turns blunt, material facts into sublime images is both astonishing and troubling. | 'Iron Crows': Documentary on Shipbreakers, and Where Tankers Go When They Die 2011-08-23T21:53:07Z She is blunt about how she sees herself: “Fat. It’s O.K. I’m allowed to say it.” The Fashion Closet, Seen From Inside and Out 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z In 2010, Barbara Hamburg — a divorced mother living in the upper middle-class town of Madison, Connecticut — was found murdered from blunt force trauma in her yard. "His Dark Materials," thriller "The Flight Attendant" and Maisie Williams hit HBO Max in November 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Throughout the EP, Harris-White's flinty voice carves controlled melodies, Irons' nimble raps are alternatingly abstract and blunt, and the pair harmonize seamlessly. Fall album roundup: The Moondoggies, Truckasauras, Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives, THEESatisfaction, Blood Hot Beat 2010-09-26T00:23:00Z Many people that I work with and help on the show really like clear, blunt, straightforward communication. We Could All Use a Jodi in Our Lives 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z The dial is moving, she said, but her optimism about “how we write about and talk about women has been blunted by recent events.” She's stepping down from A.C.T., but Carey Perloff continues the fight for women's stories 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z And from the present, she used blunt language and the shallow, openly artificial sounds of hip-hop percussion, spattering them against the decorous comforts of nostalgia. Review: Lana Del Rey Wonders ‘Is It the End of America?’ on Her New Album 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Eleanor, the socially awkward, terrifically blunt heroine of this quirky novel, is a loner, spending her weekends alone with vodka and frozen pizzas. New in Paperback: ‘Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine,’ ‘The Fact of a Body’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z In person, she is more blunt, introspective and interesting than she is on the show, willing to express mild irritation that might seem off-key in front of a national audience. Ellen DeGeneres Is Not as Nice as You Think 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Albemarle's global director of product advocacy, Raymond Dawson, said in blunt testimony before Washington state lawmakers in 2007 that the forum is "a group dedicated to generating science in support of brominated flame retardants." Fear fans flames for chemical makers 2012-05-06T05:00:00Z At times, the movie is somewhat on the nose, its psychological associations fairly blunt—and, at those times, Sachs’s tableau-like direction seems more to spotlight his intentions than the action. “Frankie” and the Performance of Life in the Face of Death 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Her new songs are a little incredulous about her contentment, but brave enough to be blunt about that, too. Lily Allen Brings Biting Sincerity to the Highline Ballroom 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Akhtar took a blunter line, decrying the rise of so-called sensitivity readers, whom publishers hire to flag potentially offensive depictions relating to race, ethnicity, gender, religion and other subjects. At PEN America, a Complicated Centennial for Free Speech 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Returning to the subject of episodically dominant conservative media figures, Maddow's purpose was less about offering true context than blunt honesty with a thimble of comfort. What Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon's firings say about the impact of episodically dominant figures 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z With dogged determination and blunt affection he also steers them around and over the many pitfalls and obstacles that come with mastering a new skill. TV review: Wonderland: Boy Cheerleaders and The Apprentice 2010-10-14T07:00:00Z Jack's blunt honesty and Harrison's fear of the outdoors are convincingly and authentically portrayed, and Sue Ann Pien, who plays Violet, has stated that the character resonates with her. "As We See It": An imperfect step forward for representing autism on screen 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Gray said he felt Mr. Phoenix was being needlessly argumentative and responded by making blunt remarks about his performance. James Gray and Joaquin Phoenix Reunite in ‘The Immigrant’ 2014-05-09T12:00:01Z Or rather, what might replace him: Let’s be blunt: the problem is the desk. Dead Tree Alert: In Late Night, Time to Fire the Desk 2013-04-11T12:52:05Z Ms. Cho, having the final word for now, is more blunt about Asian roles than she was in her email to Ms. Swinton. Race, Hollywood and ‘Doctor Strange’: Margaret Cho and Tilda Swinton, Annotated 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z This walnut Yamaha upright was my blunt instrument and it was vital that no one, not my parents or the police or Mrs Chin's family, should ever discover my terrible crime. David Nicholls Every Good Boy 2011-07-22T22:01:00Z Future was grateful but blunt about his success among the G-string set. In Atlanta, Where Hip-Hop Meets Strip Clubs 2012-09-05T17:39:14Z Pearlstein, 62, is a slim, athletic woman with curly blond hair who is both blunt and precise. How this independent boutique thrives in an era of fast fashion 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Following Ms. Fisher’s death on Tuesday, some novelists praised her prose as being as blunt, funny and honest — much like Ms. Fisher. Carrie Fisher’s Fans Find Solace in Her Books 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z “Hellhound on his Trail” makes spellbinding use of such blunt simplicity. Books of The Times: Hampton Sides?s ?Hellhound on His Trail? Traces Martin Luther King Jr.?s Killer 2010-04-21T22:24:00Z Even with the show’s faults, and a disconcertingly blunt ending, the troupe’s efforts remain admirable. Review: In ‘Hard Love,’ a Couple Divided by Religion and Big Questions 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Some people see the blunt language and name-calling as a sign of principle and strength. We live in uncivil times. Two former White House social secretaries offer a cure. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z The surface painting, reminiscent of tribal decoration, is blunt. LACMA landed Kirchner's 'Dancer With Necklace' through skill, happenstance 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z No matter: In accepting, she referred to the Globe as a “lovely, blunt object” that she would forever use “as a weapon against self-doubt.” ‘Argo’ and ‘Les Misérables’ Win Top Golden Globes 2013-01-14T05:28:16Z Her blunt account of two women toweling off offers some sweet revenge. Looking Twice at Renoir and O’Keeffe (Ida, not Georgia) 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Kline’s earnest warnings about the effects of climate change are still blunt — the immediate greed of energy and tech and lifestyle companies will still doom our civilization, if not the world, to a watery end. Josh Kline: Living in the Ruined World 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The final time was quite blunt; I said I was not attracted to him and that wasn’t going to change. I can’t tell my best friend I’m gay as he is a straight man who has romantic feelings for me 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z But, oddly, “Harmony” suffers from the same problem as “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” the TLC reality series: the back story and ulterior motives of its star at times blunt the show’s stated purpose. The TV Watch: Prince Charles Dishes Dirt (the Organic Kind) 2010-11-19T06:00:00Z Brown, a man willing to sacrifice all in order to bring down slavery, was, in many ways, a blunt instrument. 'Midnight Rising' illuminates John Brown 2011-11-03T22:11:08Z After “Ghost World” and “Art School Confidential,” his latest character to make the transition is Wilson, a solitary, cynical, and hilariously blunt middle-aged man living in a nondescript American town. Dan Clowes’s “Wilson” 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z In each, the heels tend to be heavy, blunt and far better for balance. The tortured history of action-film heroines and their high heels. (‘Jurassic World,’ anyone?) 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z He seems to approach photographs as blunt instruments; consequently his show lurches around the social landscape, leavening moments of brutality and ineptitude with glimpses of tenderness. Art Review: ‘Snap Noir’ and ‘Photo Brut’ Display Found Photographs 2013-08-08T21:53:25Z It did not help that Mr. Berti wielded his clarion tenor as a blunt instrument at times, especially in the early going. Review: An ‘Aida’ at the Met That May Not Be Zeffirelli’s, but It’s Big 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z At 11 a.m. on a Tuesday, a group of young men passed a blunt on the steps of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It’s summer, and Washington smells like weed. Everywhere, all the time. 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z It’s an even bigger stretch that after Quinn used Adam as a blunt instrument against her, Rachel would admit anything so personal to Quinn. ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 5: Somebody Do Something 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z And in Stravinsky’s modernist “Fairy’s Kiss” Divertimento, the violinist’s lush approach added alluring color to its spiky writing without blunting its impact. A romantic filter gives richness to a range of music 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z But this book is not purely a work of sycophancy, and its language is just as blunt about Allen’s failures: “ ‘Interiors’ is practically unwatchable. ‘Woody’ review: A new biography of the notoriously private filmmaker 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Except in some jarringly blunt ghost scenes filmed as actual meetings between a son and his dead father, its style is neorealist. | 'Gypsy': ‘Gypsy,’ by Martin Sulik, Fictional Portrait of the Roma 2012-06-26T21:20:58Z The purpose of such blunt observations, however, is neither to titillate nor provoke. Jenny Hval’s lyrics will grab your attention at Kremwerk 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Such blunt comparisons could easily be taken out of context, or even used for the exact opposite purpose to what Waititi intended. Taika Waititi: 'You don't want to be directing kids with a swastika on your arm' 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z It's a distinctive, stylised piece, with blunt violence, scant dialogue, gallows humour and lashings of ironic Russian folk-rock. The Great Gatsby, Beware Of Mr Baker, Fast And Furious 6: this week's new films 2013-05-18T05:00:09Z “He could be blunt and belligerent, offending those with whom he did not agree,” she wrote. Oscar White Muscarella, Museum ‘Voice of Conscience,’ Dies at 91 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Ultimately, though, I preferred the blunt approach that one of the bartenders took with one of my guests. What If Brexit Were a Restaurant? 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z This initial face-off establishes that despite the film’s light, sardonic tone, the discussions that it includes about its disabled characters are blunt and often cruel. ‘Wildflower’ Review: The Parents Are All Right 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The stars, with their unimpeachable talent, filmographies and feminist cred, are a shrewd way of blunting skepticism. ‘Bombshell’ Review: Blind Ambition and Blond Sedition at Fox News 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z If that’s the taboo Thinx aims to break, Vostral says their pants are a blunt tool: “There’s more we need to do to accept that periods are not bad or wrong”. Heavy flow: are period pants the revolutionary solution to an age old problem? 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z The organization acknowledged on its website that "not everyone is happy with the decision" to bring Gervais back because "his blunt one-liners targeting big-name celebrities caused anger and resentment in some quarters." Ricky Gervais to return as host of Golden Globes 2011-11-16T22:46:34Z David Newman is blunter still: “It’s a shame that Disney’s so small-minded to not honor that,” he said, speculating that the logo might fade out forever. 'Solo' hits the big screen minus one classic 'Star Wars' moment: the Fox Fanfare 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z When math fails, the gang resorts to blunter instruments — the kind that eventually turn a few of the factory’s white mini-trees a deep shade of red. ‘Jackpot,’ a Comic Thriller From Magnus Martens 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z These bits have attacked Trump with three tactics – pinpoint accuracy, genuine sincerity, and blunt force. Will John Oliver, Louis CK and SNL's attacks on Trump make a difference? 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Child abuse cuts a jagged scar through Morrison’s novel, a brisk modern-day fairy tale with shades of the Brothers Grimm, and a blunt moral: What you do to children matters. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z He also writes about his own self-destruction in bracingly blunt terms, coming off as a doomed tragic hero. John Belushi in Focus: What a New Film Gets Right and What It Misses 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z At her best, Halsey finds ways to explore dark material with lyrical finesse and blunt but crisp production. In Lorde’s Wake, a Groundswell of Female Rebels in Pop 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Unlike some expressionists—who hit everything with the same blunt end of their feelings—Soutine is extremely versatile, exacting. ‘Chaim Soutine: Flesh’ Review: Bloody, Brilliant Still Lifes 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z But her words, like his, are blunt, infectious—designed to be shouted by torrents of marching women. Fiona Apple’s Protest Chant “Tiny Hands” Meets Trump at His Level 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Still, nearly everything else about Time Traveling Bong is extremely refreshing in its blunt silliness, from the title on up. Time Traveling Bong: Doctor Who for the 4/20 generation 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z They found it tough at first, not least because they weren’t accustomed to the blunt Dutch manner of critiquing students’ work, but soon settled in. Design: Creating Objects to Recall the Past 2011-07-24T13:20:03Z “My client is the artist — not the Philharmonic, not the Metropolitan Opera, not anyone else,” he said in a rare, unusually blunt interview with The Times in 1971. Ronald A. Wilford, Manager to a Host of Legendary Maestros, Dies at 87 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z He and a passenger died from blunt force and fire, according to a coroner's report, with toxicology tests showing his blood-alcohol content had been more than twice the legal limit. Late 'Jackass' star Ryan Dunn mistaken for soldier killed in Gaza 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Otherwise it’s just some form of finger-pointing or shunning or shaming, all of which are blunt instruments and therefore less productive as remedies — and often make things worse. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Does personal accountability still exist? 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z I don't mean to say that Glenda Jackson was ever less than intelligent and a match for most men, but she's more of a blunt instrument. Patricia Neal: a beauty that cut like a knife 2010-08-09T13:09:00Z In expressing her shame, Rainer’s blunt approach raises questions: Is she being naïve? Yvonne Rainer, a Giant of Choreography, Makes Her Last Dance 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z “Pac passed me my first blunt,” Snoop said. 8 Memorable Moments From the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z The Academy Museum's payments will help LACMA's efforts to bounce back fully from the recession, which blunted a funding campaign begun in 2003 to raise $450 million to revamp its campus. Film academy to pay LACMA $36.1 million for movie museum lease 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z “But there are even lines blunt talkers and unprofessional politicians should not cross,” he added. The war to be clown-king of the GOP circus: Erick Erickson’s spat with Donald Trump exposes the conservative movement 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z If it will help blunt the resentment: This is one of the questions/complaints I receive most frequently. Carolyn Hax: Battling isolation, at work and at home, takes a determined effort To him, these killings were murder, and he wanted the language to be as blunt as possible. “You can’t be racist and be a Christian! You all have gotta choose”: Ben Harper opens up about activism, racism and how police brutality “threatens democracy in a very specific way” 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z More slick than sharp in indiscreet pinstripes, he wields style as a blunt instrument. Paul Manafort and the Sartorial Dilemma of the Trump-World Defendant 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Episode of the year: Horns Limo Service has stomach-turning sound effects and brilliantly blunt forensic pathologist chat: “Head almost completely crushed.” The 50 best podcasts of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z She was famously blunt in her assessment of her peers, once describing Dido's sound as "background music - the background to death" and saying of pop princess Kylie Minogue, "she's not an artist ... she's a pony." Police: Singer Amy Winehouse dies 2011-07-23T16:56:09Z I didn’t mean it as a blunt reminder that I was leaving; I simply wanted to share my good news. I Was Done Dating. Then I Joined a Hookup App. 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Here, the animal abuse is more open and shrugged off, and its consequences are blunt. Review: In ‘Lean on Pete,’ a Boy’s Survival in the Other America 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The spy proved as blunt as an anvil on Wile E. Coyote’s head, but the casting of Mr. Connery obliterated any notion that Bond could be wholly dull. Review: In ‘Spectre,’ Daniel Craig Returns as James Bond 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z In an interview, Christopher Rollston, a leading epigrapher at George Washington University who is writing a book about biblical forgeries, was blunt. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z That’s the Eno touch: the startling, often hilarious eruption of blunt honesty or, just as often, offhand profundity, into the meandering byways of everyday chitchat. Theater Review: ?The Realistic Joneses,? at Yale Repertory Theater 2012-05-01T22:14:22Z If the nerve ends were left seared, dead, and blunted—numbed—then he would be a lesser writer. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z It’s a blunt, workmanlike performance in a play that needs something more charismatic and complex. Review: ‘Our Last Game,’ the Ultimate Locker Room Pep Talk 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z It’s a remarkably blunt, if slightly risky, approach for a guy whose paychecks typically depends on teenagers’ allowances and the spending money of corporate suits at Viacom. Marketing the munchies 2012-07-21T13:00:00Z Among those subjects from his past is a blunt juvenile prosecutor who, while commending Monroe for making amends, cautions him to not "get discouraged when it doesn't mean something to everyone." 'Evolution of a Criminal' a gripping return to scene of crime 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Coachella is the only music festival where you might get a chance to see Rihanna, not a scheduled performer, smoke a blunt while riding atop her security guard’s shoulders. The Appeal of the Coachella Way of Life 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z But Mr. Adjei-Brenyah became determined to find a vehicle for his ideas, a medium that would both entertain readers and deliver a blunt message. ‘Friday Black’ Uses Fantasy and Blistering Satire to Skewer Racism and Consumer Culture 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The Rolling Stones have been what they are for such a long time that it's easy to forget how blunt, forceful and shocking they were in 1965. Rough Stones 2012-11-05T16:09:28Z “City of Ghosts,” a blunt instrument of a documentary, is an urgent and heart-heavy account of Syrian resistance from the ground up. Review: In ‘City of Ghosts,’ Fighting ISIS With Journalism 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z “It was assembled, he tells us with his usual blunt stroke, in ‘capitalistic haste’ and there is no false modesty there,” Greider wrote. Robert Sherrill, self-described ‘independent radical’ journalist, dies But race is not the only contentious issue the play addresses in blunt language. ‘Bullet for Adolf’ by Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman 2012-08-02T15:28:53Z In the end, the blunt, sometimes gruff photographer viewed himself simply as a "hired paparazzo." Phil Stern dies at 95; photographer to the stars 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s a strong, visceral scene that quickens the pace and pulse, and distills the story’s horror — suffer the little children to enter the arena — in blunt visual terms. Movie Review: ?The Hunger Games? Movie Adapts the Suzanne Collins Novel 2012-03-22T12:00:01Z You could also wish, it must be said, no matter how unfairly, for some of Caine’s blunt magnetism. ‘The Ipcress File’ Review: In the Footsteps of Michael Caine 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z He wanted to hurt an inanimate object with a blunt instrument until the urge to kill his whole family subsided. Grace Dent's World of Lather 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z The way the blunt metal of the instrument blends with the rinsed-out guitar chords and stained-glass organ — I'm sorry, but I see visions. Download this: "instrumental summer mixtape and b sides" by Seattle's Craft Spells 2011-07-12T16:36:12Z The Obamas’ potential to change the tone and political culture of this country was blunted by the persistence of that racism before and during their time at the country’s political apex. Review | The Obamas’ portraits are not what you’d expect, and that’s why they’re great 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Ms. James’s blunt writing and awkward plotting help to demystify and democratize the wild and esoteric sex, while Ms. Taylor-Johnson’s silky imagery tries to restore an aura of mystery. Unexpected Lessons From ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Maybe, then, his blunt and sometimes artless lyrics are purposeful. Music Review: Ever the Charmer, Brazen and Sly, but at a Faster Clip 2011-07-01T22:26:12Z Previously, “Trapped” rarely varied from its blunt camera style and obvious green-screen segments. Television Review: R. Kelly’s ‘Trapped in the Closet’ on IFC 2012-11-22T22:48:45Z “Auctions are a blunt instrument,” said Marc Glimcher, the president of Pace Gallery. The Art Market?s Other Side: Why Some Prices Fall 2011-05-30T17:43:28Z The Chester County coroner listed blunt force trauma and thermal trauma as the official causes of death for both men. 'Jackass' star died from Pa. crash's impact, fire 2011-06-22T00:46:13Z Ahead of Wednesday's ruling, the group had warned on its Facebook page that a ruling against them would do nothing to blunt their activity. Topless activists acquitted over Paris Notre Dame raid 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z As the track evolves from gospel organ chords to a funk strut, she is blunt — “most men are garbage” — but willing to entertain other rare possibilities. A Radiohead Spinoff’s Snarling Single, and 8 More New Songs 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z The stones in this book tell strikingly similar stories — stories whose contours we might know, but whose details and particular, individual impacts have been lost or blunted. Grief and Geology Both Take Time in ‘The Book of Unconformities’ 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Then, as now, people are attracted to blunt, viscerally satisfying solutions. BookTalk: John Brown's "Midnight Rising" 2011-12-22T10:03:38Z It’s only natural that they start to think of these things in blunt, objective terms. Conservative relatives can’t let the Planned Parenthood “scandal” go? Try these talking points 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Go ahead at watch Monday night’s Vice News episode “Charlottesville: Race and Terror,” because it is frightening and blunt and devastating. Netflix’s “The Defenders” isn’t the best Marvel series, but it may be what we need right now 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z It was characteristically direct, more blunt than the usual interview subject and difficult to answer. Amy Schumer Doesn’t Care What You Think (That Much) 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z What proved more difficult to suppress was her suspicion that Adderall was blunting her intelligence: Was the “smart drug” making her stupid? Can Drugs Help Us Focus? Casey Schwartz, You Better Watch Your Speed 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Suddenly, Ukrainian cinema was relevant, and a familiar, woozy feeling returned: What use is any of this against the blunt reality of war? What Does It Mean to Live in Ukraine? Filmmakers Offer Their Answers. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Yet, working at a leisurely pace and using dates and other cues — rain, a Ramones T-shirt and a blunt edit after someone utters the word “blood” — he guides you firmly but gently through the turns. Movie Review: ?Bons?i,? From Chile, Directed by Cristi?n Jim?nez 2012-05-10T22:15:46Z His blunt style and legislative tenure helped cut through the confusion and chaos. Barney Frank: ‘People almost forgot that I was gay, and I kept reminding them’ 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Gleefully blunt, “Lysistrata” is thought to have been first performed in Athens at a festival of Dionysus, the god of wine. Review: Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq,’ a Barbed Takedown of Gang Wars, With Sex as the Weapon 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z But anger at times blunts her analysis and it robs her of political traction. A novelist and a journalist come to terms with the new Turkey 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Dramatic or stirring moments are sometimes blunted by messy camerawork and editing, and testimonies from household members and friends yield only surface-level insights. ‘Bad Axe’ Review: A Pandemic Family Portrait 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Its depiction of the madness of Rikers, especially in Part 2, is blunt and hard to watch. Review: A Shameful Story Gets Its Due in ‘Time: The Kalief Browder Story’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z “I no longer made any pretense of drinking to bond with the men, or to blunt the cares of the day, or to participate in male rituals,” Moehringer writes. ‘The Tender Bar’: A Tale of Drinking That Ducks Alcoholism 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z “Strength of a Woman,” the new album from Mary J. Blige, moves like a forest fire: ruthless, wide-ranging, blunt. For Mary J. Blige, Pain Leads to Beauty 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z New Criterion magazine was blunter, running with "Communist stooge". Arthur Miller: why America lowered the curtain on his reputation 2011-08-19T18:17:25Z In restaurants and hotels, it was really eye-opening, we were treated always as brash, invading Americans, rather than as blunt, sophisticated, English people. Rosamund Pike: 'I seek adventure all the time' 2011-01-20T22:59:01Z To be blunt, your needs are now due consideration. Her husband is job-hopping. Is that a good idea? 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Season 2 finds our perplexed divorcée wondering how she ended up in bed with all the wrong people, while Laura and Alex try to blunt their anger and pain. What’s on TV Tuesday 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Instead, all its genre fluidity is in service of the same blunt frankness. Her Novel Became a Best Seller. The Trouble: The Manuscript Was Stolen. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Oct. 2nd: The bluntest political statement of the musical year came, a bit surprisingly, from Laurie Anderson, famous for her deadpan irony. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z A variation of it drives “Love and Love Alone,” a blunt, cosmically sweeping number from “The Visit.” Chita Rivera Kicks Up Her Heels at Birdland 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Acosta — whose critics deride him as a “grandstander” or “showboat” in the White House press room — uses blunt language in the book to characterize public statements by Trump and his aides. In new book, CNN’s Acosta recounts death threats after his clashes with Trump 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z The book is, to be blunt, violent as hell. 'Lonesome Animals': Crimes, punishment in 1930s Eastern Wash. 2012-05-24T20:21:04Z Please do, and be blunt with yourself — “we got caught unprepared in this single but significant way” — and with your son. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A widow’s unfounded feelings of guilt 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The violence in “Bonnie and Clyde” that outraged some critics was already there in “The Left Handed Gun” — and it was ugly, blunt, cruel, absurd. Film: Arthur Penn, a Director Attuned to His Country 2010-10-09T08:13:00Z The deeper problem is the way the director uses political incorrectness like a blunt instrument. 'A Million Ways to Die in the West' shoots self in foot 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z “Bluebeard” suits Ms. Breillat, who likes to mix the blunt in with the oblique. Movie Review | 'Bluebeard': Catherine Breillat?s Screen Revision of Perrault?s Fairy Tale 2010-03-25T23:18:00Z When speaking of Desdemona, Othello declares that “when I love thee not/Chaos is come again,” it’s with a cerebral self-awareness that blunts the prophecy’s grim threat. Review: A Cool-Tempered ‘Othello’ for Warm Central Park Nights 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z When you play with somebody for a long period, it's like having a good friend: you just start to play, and you can communicate without using the blunt instruments that are words. Portrait of the artist: Jools Holland, musician and broadcaster 2011-08-01T21:01:01Z To be kind of blunt, I just think with most curators, there’s this turn-off if there’s a market. | Sterling Ruby on Making It in L.A., His New Show in New York and the Power of the Art Market 2014-05-12T21:20:58Z Mr. Sasnal has found his own way to paint from photographs with a combination of blunt and tender brushwork. 11 Galleries to Visit Now on the Upper East Side and in Harlem 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z There’s nothing gushy about Michel, and his advanced perfectionism might appear blunt. Movie Review: ‘Step Up to the Plate,’ a Documentary on Michel and Sebastien Bras 2012-09-14T00:16:10Z And I would look at Richard a lot, because I was more of his style: blunt, in-your-face and honest. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Patricia Williams Goes From Crime to Comedy 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z It seems blithely unconcerned about being respected or winning awards, and the gravitas of Mr. Giamatti and Mr. Lewis are deployed like blunt instruments, the rhetorical equivalent of cave men beating each other with clubs. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 6: A Weird Couple of Days 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z “This is more important than a blockbuster show, to be blunt about it.” In Appalachia, Crafting a Road to Recovery With Dulcimer Strings 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z The coroner confirmed that the cause of death was “blunt traumatic asphyxia” and estimated that his injuries would have killed him in under a minute. Anton Yelchin death officially ruled an accident 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z That’s the kind of blunt, sincere, slightly inappropriate statement one of his characters might blurt out at an odd moment, and so much the better. Review: ‘Aloha,’ a Hangout Movie With Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone in Hawaii 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Jack, himself responsible for the 2003 Granta list, is blunt: "Literary novels really depend on prizes, and they depend on lists." Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z It’s true that early in his career, Tokyo’s NHK orchestra once publicly refused to play under him, charging him with arrogance — his style was too Westernized, too blunt. Ozawa: A pioneer who dedicated his life to Western music 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Ms. Jones conveys emotions as blunt facts, through the sheer physical force of her singing, and it’s easier to believe her fury than her vulnerability. Critics' Choice: New CDs by Sharon Jones, E-40 and Bill Callahan 2010-04-04T21:55:00Z “Gael had balls, to be blunt,” says James Marsh, that picture’s British director. Gael García Bernal: 'The pandemic has taught me that I need something to say' 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Wright typically wrote in short, irregular lines, with a blunt, unadorned style that could sound more like prose than verse. Franz Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, dies at 62 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The fracas over her prices — a steal compared with what celebrities are spending! — hasn’t blunted interest in her own work. How Balloons Blew Up 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z As for Verlaine, he gets a blunt answer to the mystery of Rimbaud’s career change when he meets him for the last time, in Germany, 18 months after the shooting. Books of The Times: The Prodigy Burned Out. Why Not Blame Mom? 2011-08-23T20:39:20Z Subtlety and aesthetic elegance — the jerky animation complements the blunt tone — are not among the film’s virtues. Review: ‘Tehran Taboo’ Exposes Double Standards About Sex in Iran 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z The alcohol lobby would love an Ethiopian proverb that recurs like a mantra: “When there is no beer, there is no work,” although the Sumerians were blunter: “Not to know beer is not normal.” Sloshed, Hammered, Blotto — We’ve Been Doing It for Ages 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z In using the distancing effects of language as a blunt instrument simultaneously to create strangeness and cut more deeply to the heart of human experience, Ms. Bent follows a long tradition of adventuresome playwrights. Theater Review: ‘The Hotel Colors,’ Eliza Bent’s Debut at Bushwick Starr 2013-05-14T21:30:57Z That’s not to say Dreijer has blunted their signature power to provoke, though: The song is hard-hitting and unpredictable in its structure, full of warping synthesizers and eerie, helium-pitched backing vocals. Bruce Springsteen’s Exuberant Soul Cover, and 10 More New Songs 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z And, of course, we get a few lines here and there that just don’t even make sense even with a Weezy filter: “My homie T roll up my blunt / Skinnier than Rex Ryan.” Lil Wayne Is Rabid, Raw on Dedication 4 2012-09-14T14:00:05Z Many of the stories deliver moral lessons, some with blunt humor: Two blustering, privileged young men are almost eaten alive in “The Restaurant of Many Orders” — and the reader wishes they were. Dark Fairy Tales From a Now-Vanished Agrarian Japan 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The writer Roxane Gay, in a separate string of tweets commenting on white writers who use African-American Vernacular English, or AAVE, was more blunt. A Poem in The Nation Spurs a Backlash and an Apology 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z She was known for her unapologetically blunt humor and she was egalitarian about it, too: nobody was safe from becoming the butt of a Joan Rivers joke, including Rivers herself. These Are Joan Rivers' Best One-Liners 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The network remembered Knight, who also starred in MTV's "The Challenge," "for his candor and blunt sense of humor." MTV reality star Ryan Knight found dead at 28 in Wisconsin 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z A compact, elegant man, Mr. Laurents could be as convivial as a raconteur and as equally blunt. Arthur Laurents, Playwright and Director on Broadway, Dies at 93 2011-05-06T04:27:34Z Pamela Adlon’s Better Things went from strength to strength this year, and what she created was wonderful, warm and affectingly blunt. Golden Globes 2018: who will win – and who should win – the TV categories 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z “I’m trying to stay humble, dump my own blunt guts. I do be using the paper cutter to cut it, though.” ‘Desus & Mero’: No Suits. And No Canned Sketches. 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Tarkovsky’s film is a languid, internalised meditation with an eye on the sublime; Soderbergh’s is trimmer and blunter, but just as moving in its way. The best English-language remakes – ranked! 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z But the categories are blunt and don't convey their abilities. What is it like to live with parents very different from you? 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z I only considered the blunt fact of my vision — the sights of Union Square, its pedestrians and traffic. ‘Blindness’ Review: Listening to the Sound of Theater Again 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z The song commenced, as always, with Mr. Dillon’s blunt, ironic introduction. Free to Rock, and Rightly So 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The experimental playwright Richard Foreman is blunt: “As far as I’m concerned, he created SoHo,” he says. Review: ‘George,’ Like Its Fluxus Subject, Is Playful and Prankish 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Still, the piling up of incidents and images and subplots has a congestive effect here, blurring our focus and blunting our emotional responses. Review: Reaching Across Korean Borders in ‘Wild Goose Dreams’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Howard Jacobson, Salman Rushdie and Dave Eggers all took steady aim at the bloated target, but in their satirical novels, anger curdled their humor and ultimately blunted their barbs. Review | Christopher Buckley’s ‘Make Russia Great Again’ is the Trump satire we’ve been waiting for 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z There is powerful drama here, but too many of the scenes are handled with blunt portentousness rather than the subtlety a story as rich as this one deserves. | 'The First Grader': Simple Quest for Literacy Hits a Wall of Politics 2011-05-12T23:10:04Z Their comments, while couched in the blunt language of the anonymous Web gasbag, compelled me to think deeper about the concept of value. Rethinking dining value: Eating at restaurants shouldn’t be only about volume This in no way blunts the erotic force of the dances. Nrityagram: Under My Skin 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z Her silkscreened panel showing a sun over water is both an ephemeral image and a material thing, spectral illusion and blunt reality, hypothetical concept and inescapable fact. R.H. Quaytman makes paintings as sculptures, mysterious and seductive at their best 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Anderson says the military is useful in a disaster because of its logistical skill, but “it’s a blunt instrument,” too prone to resort to force. Finding peace in post-disaster Haiti 2013-05-26T14:00:00Z In late February, for instance, a study of Italian healthcare workers found that obesity blunted the antibody response to the Pfizer/BioNTech jab. Look after yourself: how your state of mind could affect your Covid jab 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z In the early 20th century he led the brief blitz of the Fauves — those “wild beasts” of fiery colors and blunt textures — but otherwise abstained from the signal movements of modern art. Art Review: Matisse Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-11-29T22:44:14Z Ms. Ziegler can be a bit obsessive about connecting the dots, a trait that tends to transform the wavering paths of human life into blunt lines. Review: In ‘Boy,’ a Man Deals With Gender Cards He’s Given (Not Born With) 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Thread the kebab components onto the skewers in the following order, starting a few inches down from the blunt end: lamb, scallion, tomato, lamb, red bell pepper, if using. When I skewer a tomato, it’s no small thing 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z His tracks are big, blunt instruments and entirely attuned to the immediate needs of EDC-goers. On EDC's second night, a conquering mood in the air 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z But when it comes to discussing their chances of success, he’s as blunt as an alderman up against the wall at a raucous town hall meeting. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z This, to be blunt, is just plain wrong. Why Superman Deserves More Respect 2013-02-21T17:39:34Z They want to know, for instance, whether blunts are more potent than joints or how to make edibles. The WeedTubers: these people make a living getting stoned on YouTube 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Their phone conversations with Modine’s Singer snap with the blunt force of powerful people used to getting what they want. ‘Operation Varsity Blues’ Review: Failing the Ethics Test 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z McClain would later describe it as a “classic” case of blunt force trauma, the type of damage often done by a beating. Motherlode: A "Live Chat" About Shaken Baby Syndrome 2011-06-28T19:37:33Z The book is simultaneously whimsical and blunt, like Ms. Rossellini herself, who discusses her roller coaster career with uncommon candor. Down on the Farm With Isabella Rossellini 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z My Thanksgivings were spent hanging out on the block, passing around tightly sealed blunts in one direction and a bottle of liquor in the other. The evolution of my Thanksgiving plate 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Gardener is blunt, and humbled, about his impressions of today's guitar music. Coachella 2015: Ride announces Roxy gig, talks reunion, guitar pedals 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Yet his lyrics for “Lulu” verge on self-parody, a series of blunt objects that make “Saw IV” seem nuanced and humane. Album review: Lou Reed and Metallica, 'Lulu' 2011-10-28T05:34:00Z He traded his sunglasses to an audience member for a blunt. Music Review: Jay Electronica and Big K.R.I.T. Rap for Purists 2010-07-02T22:14:00Z She could also go for blunt elegance: Paintings using different combinations of red, white and black recur throughout the show, including in three self-portraits. She Painted Marie Antoinette (and Escaped the Guillotine) 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z He’s making a fine ethical point but it’s an overly blunt cinematic stroke. Review: In ‘The Third Murder,’ Guilty as Charged Isn’t the Whole Story 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Her insistence is on telling the story of a collective with blunt clarity, and sidestepping the genre’s potential for sentimentality or sensationalism. ‘W-3,’ a Memoir That Recalls Suffering Without Sentimentality or Sensationalism 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Scene after scene is poignant and agonizing, and it’s the patients, finally, who are blunt about their situations. Review: ‘Being Mortal’ and ‘The Forgotten Plague’ Explore Death and Disease 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z It isn’t wrong to criticize art as blunt as this, in which symbols function not as elements in a complex, imaginative system, but in strict one-to-one correspondence with political or social ills. Southeast Asia Stakes Its Claim in the Art World 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Antony claims he’s “no orator, as Brutus is,” just “a plain blunt man.” The theater of Trump: What Shakespeare can teach us about the Donald 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z She is equally adept at providing comfort by feeding and bathing her injured husband, but also being spattered with blood while wearing a stylish fur coat, or wielding a blunt instrument to protect herself. Kate Bosworth on the delights of playing the villain: “We wanted to turn it so the Hitchcock blonde would be the psycho rather than the victim” 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z “Like its hero, the movie has a blunt, exuberant honesty, pulling off even its false moves with conviction and flair,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Monday: Michelle Obama on ‘An Oprah Winfrey Special’ 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Slattery is charming company – sweet, solicitous, his brain somehow still sharp despite his best efforts to blunt the thoughts that tormented him. Tony Slattery: ‘I had a very happy time until I went slightly barmy’ 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z There is another scene, once the siblings have grown up into Sam Rockwell and Hilary Swank, that captures the film’s early, promising mixture of blunt drama and psychological subtlety. | 'Conviction': Her Brother?s Keeper, No Matter the Cost 2010-10-14T23:03:00Z Colour-blind casting may be too blunt an instrument for today’s sophisticated TV dramas, but in combination with a kind of colour-conscious storytelling, it can both reflect and influence. The Handmaid's Tale's race problem 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Both veteran firefighters died of blunt force injuries, while 17 others were hurt in the department's deadliest fire in more than a dozen years. Charges in blaze where 2 firefighters died 2011-12-21T12:19:00Z It was easy for Mollie to subtly strike back because one of the servants attending to the aunt was white—a blunt reminder of the town’s social order. The Marked Woman 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z A stately old pile steps from the tourist-clogged Times Square might seem a strange place for the music of Green Day, and for theater this blunt, bold and aggressive in its attitude. | 'American Idiot': A Musical Inspired by a Green Day Album Opens 2010-04-21T03:16:00Z Sometimes when a person needs to blunt life's dull stench, almost OK is better than blank air. Netflix's self-serious "Jupiter's Legacy" is the superhero TV version of a Designer Imposter stinker 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z The Pistols were certainly blunt — to the public, to their fans, to each other. Rock ’n’ Roll Swindles, Revisited 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z The titles of Bob Woodward’s three books about the Trump administration — “Fear,” “Rage” and now “Peril” — are appropriately blunt. Bob Woodward Extends His Trump Chronicles With the Chaotic Transfer of Power 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Vox Editor at Large Ezra Klein was more blunt: “The president of the United States is not well.” Perspective | ‘We’re not doctors’: The perils for journalists in assessing Trump’s mental health 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z The man, who suffered multiple blunt force injuries, was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, where he died this morning, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Man dies a day after hit-and-run crash in East Ukrainian Village 2012-05-03T11:44:00Z In “Stone and Knife” she writes: One angle blunts, another sharpens. Books of The Times: Poetry by Kathleen Ossip, Tracy K. Smith and Others - Review 2011-08-29T22:59:51Z But the overly broad performances, especially in the zippy courtroom scenes, drain the movie of nuance and blunt its realism, and the contrapuntal his-and-her flashbacks add little. Review: In ‘Marshall,’ a Legal Pioneer Gives History a Shove 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Congressional committee formed weeks after the hurricane to evaluate the efficacy of the response was blunt, asserting that, “Media hype of violence exacerbated public concerns and further delayed relief.” Finding peace in post-disaster Haiti 2013-05-26T14:00:00Z And, to be blunt, that helped unlock my own appreciation of the erotic power of the youthful art of Michelangelo. Putting the sex back into nudes 2010-10-27T15:03:00Z And, indeed, when Nikki shows up that night at the little cottage off Highway 1 as directed by Karen, the woman is dead, her skull bashed in by a blunt object. Review | ‘Save Me From Dangerous Men’ is a great title for a less-than-great book 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z In those frequent public appearances, Philip developed a reputation for being impatient and demanding and was sometimes blunt to the point of rudeness. Philip, in role with no job description, was queen’s bedrock 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Their talk was sometimes smart, sometimes dumb, and nearly always blunt. Why "All in the Family" still matters 2011-01-12T15:01:00Z As we pass the year mark of the pandemic, I take refuge in the blunt, bracing humor of a crude joke about NFTs. 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z He then assures other patrons that the painting is protected by glass, a statement which seemingly does little to blunt their anger. Climate Protester Glues His Head to ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ Painting 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z It does have a dreaminess, though this registers mainly as sluggishness and sloppiness, compounded by the way that boots blunt ballet footwork. Review: Dreamy Cowboys and a Ballet Bath 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Move along the route, and there’s little denying how blunt power shaped the landscape. Counterpublic in St. Louis Pushes the Public-Art Envelope 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z The song, with its blunt, steady beat and vocal pyrotechnics, “insists on the community effort behind the triumph,” The New York Times’s chief pop music critic Jon Pareles wrote. Beyoncé Scores Her First Oscar Nomination 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Simon & Schuster’s Painton says she bought McCaskill’s forthcoming “Plenty Ladylike” because the senator “is so blunt on the page, it’s scary. She talks honestly about her mistakes, her ambition, her divorce.” Every candidate an author: The ceaseless boom in books by politicians 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z She could be loud, blunt, demanding and profane. Elaine Stritch, salty star of Broadway, dies at 89 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z It is indeed very light, though, as cream is sweeter than butter, it blunts the sharpness of the lemon; perfect for sandwiching cakes together with but a bit mild for those chasing an acid trip. How to make the perfect lemon curd 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z In New York, where nearly 3,000 people died at the World Trade Center, some of those front pages were blunt: "Rot in Hell" was the message on the New York Daily News front page. Bin Laden story shows changing media nature 2011-05-02T22:28:32Z Add today's stratospheric art market, where he hovers near the top, and even dull mediocrity hums with the blunt authority of vast wealth. Alas, mere 'Shadows' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z "If somebody even dies in a crash, a blunt force trauma, we will still take medical issues into account," he said. Coroner seeking Houston medical, pharmacy records 2012-02-15T17:51:08Z But he also asks a blunt question, particularly pertinent in the market-saturated present, about the bond between rebellion and consumption. When the Young Lords Strove to Change New York 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z “I dumped the blunt guts in the organic trash can,” he said, musing on whether they would be composted. ‘Desus & Mero’: No Suits. And No Canned Sketches. 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z “Benefit albums on their own are blunt objects,” she wrote in an e-mail. Amnesty International?s 4-CD Benefit Album of Dylan Songs 2012-01-13T16:24:51Z Dwayne staggered, but his size, his sheepskin jacket and his bravery blunted the shock. “A shotgun fell on my head as I searched the closet for baby clothes” 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The one who slings blunt terms like “evil” when he’s talking about modern corporate agribusiness? How America’s most famous farmer can appeal to left, right and center 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Friedman’s comic attack can be blunt or surgical. In This Prank Show, the Joke’s on Misogynistic Men 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z However, she also knows how to pitch the artful against the blunt, the symbolically charged against the thing itself, to forceful effect. Everything Begins Elsewhere by Tishani Doshi - review 2012-06-01T21:55:01Z It's asking them to struggle with scenes about sexual commodification and misogyny that are at points, painful and ugly and blunt. "Democracy is never perfected": David Simon on his new HBO series and the 2020 "s**tshow" election 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z It has more of the feel of a traditional family sitcom than the louder, jokier competition on Nickelodeon, but the humor is still pretty broad and the plotting blunt for anyone outside that age group. ‘Girl Meets World’ and ‘Mystery Girls,’ Sitcoms From Disney 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Stripped naked, it comes across as blunt and bland. Review: ‘Dead Poets Society,’ Starring Jason Sudeikis as the Idealistic Teacher 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, with an unusually stodgy format and dialogue that either dishes up facts or broods — in blunt and repetitious fashion, about the elusiveness of truth — the play is frequently tedious and exasperating. Review | At Theater J, Albee’s ‘Occupant’ takes a lifeless look at the life of Louise Nevelson 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z Half a century has scarcely blunted — and may have even enhanced — its relevance. An African in Paris, Fighting to Preserve His Dignity 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Envy, mistrust, manipulation and blunt aggression govern human relations. ‘An Elephant Sitting Still’ Review: Bleak, Graceful Realism 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z As an actor, Mr. Santiago-Hudson is capable of very fine distinctions, but as a writer and director he’s wielding some pretty blunt instruments. Review: ‘Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine’ Takes On Race 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Like much successful hip-hop today, “Don’t Forget About Me” is a blunted, nihilistic version of its influences. The Twenty-Three-Year-Old Who Embodies the Hazy Future of Pop Music 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Among the many things he’s been called — “blunt,” “pathetic,” “calculating” — the one thing Michael Wolff has never been described as is boring. Michael Wolff tells a juicy tale in his new Trump book. But should we believe it? 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z In the print series known as “The Disasters of War,” he is a virtuoso of violence: shading it, savoring it, prodding it toward us with blunt intent. ‘Goya: Order and Disorder’ at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z It's blunt, it's almost lovely, and it's quite devastatingly sad. Rereading Stephen King: week 17 – Cycle of the Werewolf 2013-03-07T12:02:36Z But she also engaged with popular culture, in essays that could be as rhetorically blunt as they were intellectually serpentine. The Wide-Angle Vision, and Legacy, of bell hooks 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z But it's too little, too late, the edge too blunt. King Krule – review 2013-04-01T16:51:32Z Together, these pieces exude a bleak mid-century naturalism, the writing spare and blunt. Rediscovering the lost writers of the Plains 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z So the effect of the opera is grimmer, blunter and less winking. Your Guide to the Met Opera’s ‘Exterminating Angel’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Motifs suggesting sunrises, forests and other feats of nature as well as a possible book are rendered in simple forms and blunt brushwork supplemented with bits of relief. Museum & Gallery Listings for March 27-April 2 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z And you don't have to be an artist to appreciate someone being refreshingly blunt. Rise of the celebrity stoner 2011-02-14T21:01:00Z In creating a soft place for herself and her inner child to land, Sawayama has blunted some of her music’s sharper edges. For the Gloriously Over-the-Top Rina Sawayama, Less Is Less 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z That isn’t an argument; it’s a blunt turn of the dramatic screw. | 'Illegal': A Woman With a Son, but Not a Country 2011-03-24T21:23:03Z The violence in “The Handmaiden” tends to be more restrained than in some of his other work, more psychological and rather less blunt and bloody. Review: ‘The Handmaiden’ Explores Confinement in Rich, Erotic Textures 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z She was funny, open and blunt, and the intense focus she had on set the previous summer had disappeared into something resembling relief. From The Archers to HBO: how Sally Wainwright conquered TV 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z But perhaps this is a place where the show needs to be blunt: Women are capable of rule, more capable than their narrow-sighted male counterparts. 'Game of Thrones' Bends Over Backwards to Give Us a Girl Power Moment 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z This question is about whether it's better for me to continue being blunt or just learn to bite my tongue, but I'd also like your advice on generally how I should react as she ages. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Such sweet sorrow, an aging mom loses her baking touch 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Satisfying for the blunt end of quite a few of supporters of the old world order but also the inevitable tragic demise of two of it's more beloved characters . ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 9: The Hungry Dogs of War 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Keigwin’s work is witty, kinetic and musically responsive, mixing the stretched lines of ballet with the more weighted, blunt quality of contemporary dance, often integrating everyday gestures and pop-culture references. The Next Thing for Mr. I-Can-Do-Everything 2011-03-06T01:45:21Z His three D’s were exaggeratedly rock-hard stabs, followed by exaggeratedly soft skipping, a pattern that persisted through his performance: blunt contrast as interpretation. Lang Lang Shares the Spotlight With the Philharmonic 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z “But it shouldn’t be used as a blunt instrument to dismiss all his thought.” Revisiting a Scholar Unmasked by Scandal 2014-03-09T21:47:03Z He is measured and clearheaded, and his words are blunt. Documentary examines Penn State in wake of Sandusky scandal 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Mazin and Druckmann do a good job of setting the stage and telling their story through visual cues and subtle dialogue rather than blunt exposition. ‘The Last of Us’ Series Premiere Recap: Fungus Among Us 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z “For being blunt in meetings or for what?” she asked her colleague. Former Trump aide said she was told not to play Taylor Swift at the White House 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, the campaign may be aiming to highlight its criticism of the mainstream media and to blunt suggestions that it colluded with Russian operatives. Trump campaign sues Washington Post over opinion columns asserting link to Russian election interference 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Between the blunt, accusatory question and my inability to ask it, it was clear I was not about to go head-to-head with the most powerful man in Nick Clegg's office. Nick Clegg's radio phone-in: what's his policy on onesies? 2013-01-10T12:35:05Z Her other work, a cinder block wall topped by barbed wire, is a blunt use of an old cliche. Perspective | Venice Biennale: A vast, unwieldy, exhilarating spectacle 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z In September of this year, De Niro was characteristically blunt in speaking about Trump, saying that he “should not be president, period”. Robert De Niro v Trump: a complete history of a (mainly one-sided) beef 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z I’m a ruffian from the wrong side of the tracks, unaccustomed to the fine art of hoity-toity toilet etiquette, so I’m used to ridding myself of muck with the blunt force trauma of two-ply Andrex. Road-testing this year's Oscars goodie bag! (The loo roll and armpit napkins) 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z It would be excellent in a parfait with vanilla yogurt, or spooned over a flourless chocolate cake to cut the sweetness and complement the blunt edges of cocoa. The absolute best way to make jam, according to so many tests 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Martin loves this man, whose explanation is as offhanded and blunt as the comedian is. Four Stand-Up Specials That Punch Above Their Weight 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The strength of “Ghettoside” lies in its blunt reminder of an ugly fact: murder victims in America are disproportionately black men. Murder, she wrote 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z It’s often a blunt injection of attitude like “I don’t mind something being a harbinger of something else, but after that I think you have to wrap it up.” 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Asked again about his next step, Peterson, a veteran of the Marines, was blunt: “Speculate all you want, but I’m not going to say anything beyond what I’ve already said.” Gordon Peterson, fixture of District local news, will leave WJLA at end of the year One character tells us of his early idealism, his desire to help people, and how that was blunted by the realization that much of the public resents police. 'Newyorkland' digs deep into the world of cops 2011-11-18T17:45:04Z Scott writes, “‘BlacKkKlansman’ is a furious, funny, blunt and brilliant confrontation with the truth. What to Read About ‘Green Book’ and the Other Best Picture Nominees 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z The anonymity of social media allows for a pretty blunt form of dialogue, which I think one can only benefit from. How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age 2013-08-09T14:51:02Z Both of those realities were inarguably blunted by Presley’s manager, the slippery Col. ‘Reinventing Elvis: The ’68 Comeback’ Review: Fully in the Building 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z From his table at a Black-Owned Small Business Saturday pop-up event, Robert Robinson, a brand ambassador for an all-natural sanitary napkins brand called Cherish, was blunt. Buying Black, Rebooted 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Some of the shifts are fairly blunt, as Mr. Ford abruptly cuts back and forth between the two stories. Review: ‘Nocturnal Animals,’ Brutality Between the Pages and Among the Fabulous 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z But the weighty deliberation he brought to the rest of the opening movement and the central Adagio ran up against Conlon's blunter, more excitable treatment of the orchestral tuttis. Conlon serves Shostakovich suite to the max with CSO 2011-04-22T17:40:00Z There’s the pure blunt force of Game of Thrones as an entity, for starters. Game of Thrones: the stars forced to nominate themselves for Emmys 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z What remains can be startlingly good nonetheless, particularly when it comes — as is so often the case with Lang’s Hollywood films — to the villains, their eccentricities, depraved excesses and blunt endings. Film: Making Hollywood Films Was Brutal, Even for Fritz Lang 2011-01-23T02:19:11Z McKay’s touch here is considerably blunter and less productive than it has been in a while. ‘Don’t Look Up’ Review: Tick, Tick, Kablooey 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The comedy is grotesque and blunt — Craig spends one episode with a dead snake nailed to his palm — but sneakily smart. Waking Up From the American Dream 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z She survived breast cancer and then bladder cancer, discussing the latter experience in blunt terms in the pages of Vogue in an effort to destigmatize the disease. A supermodel recalls the glorious decade when no one cared if you gained a few pounds 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Onstage and off, Ms. Stritch was strikingly blunt about needing to be loved by an audience, although in her later cabaret performances, her first words might be how terrified she was to be up there. A Critic’s Appraisal: Elaine Stritch 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Another recent client is the model Cara Delevingne, who in their first session passed him a blunt so strong that he could barely keep his eyes open. You Want This Tattoo? Get in Line. 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The resemblances to Earth are blunt enough for an eco-savvy kindergartner and pop off the screen like speech balloons. Movie Review: ‘Man of Steel’ Depicts a Striving Stranger in a Strange Land 2013-06-13T16:00:30Z Winfrey was beaten as a child, too, but time and other sources of healing blunted the pain to the point where, as she puts it, there was no “charge” for her left. In ‘Henrietta Lacks,’ Oprah Winfrey reveals one woman’s remarkable legacy 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z With my senses of smell and taste knocked out, the comforts that would normally have sustained me through an intense illness were profoundly blunted. Sad after losing your sense of smell to COVID? Turns out there's a link between sense and happiness 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The years don’t seem to have blunted the startling mix of intensity and uncertainty, audacity and anxiety, with which he approaches each role. Liev Schreiber, the Reluctant Rake 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z His instruments — which are far more difficult to control than modern versions, so you can forgive a botched note here and there — come off as blunter than the ones we’re used to, but also cleaner. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z That ultimate unleashing seems all but assured, thanks to plenty of blunt foreshadowing. Review | ‘The Passage’: Another viral vampire story, with an appealing child who gives it life 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z It had 68 pages of Latin text, printed "in tiny blunt type on low-quality paper" and sprinkled with typographical errors at a rough average of four per page. Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright – review 2012-06-06T09:50:01Z We are, let’s be blunt, suddenly thinking more often about death, the ultimate transition from the physical state. Life Is More Like a Simulation. On These Shows, So Is Death. 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z But I would argue that its ease and familiarity of form, and the desire primarily to entertain, leave it as pretty blunt instrument for any more serious purpose. There's nothing funny about putting racism on stage 2011-02-21T17:42:14Z Animation offers Mr. Rogen, Mr. Goldberg and their squad new ways to be naughty, and also blunts the potential offensiveness of some of the older ways. ‘Sausage Party’ Is an Animated Sex Comedy About Food ... and God 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Ironies and contradictions abound, even as some of the basic facts assert themselves with blunt, oppressive force. ‘Queen & Slim’ Review: Love on the Run 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Parker wrote the Spenser novels in the first person, employing the blunt, masculine prose style that is often described as Hemingwayesque. 2010-01-20T07:23:00Z The film is a little too blunt in making its points about injustice and inhumanity and about the problems with putting the Army in charge of a long-term detention project. SpongeBob makes a comeback 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Their deaths were caused by "blunt and thermal trauma," according to the autopsy report. Ryan Dunn's alcohol level played factor in fatal crash 2011-06-22T20:23:00Z “You told the truth, but in the bluntest and least tactful way. Surely it can't be a surprise to you that it caused tension,” one user wrote. Woman tells friend her teen son smells 'like rotting meat,' sparks online debate 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Raphel’s assessment, offered through the retrospective lens of 20-plus years, seemed blunt: “At the end of the day, he took it all too seriously,” she said in a 1992 New York Times article about Aller. Who is Robin Raphel, the State Department veteran caught up in Pakistan intrigue? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z If you set aside any hopes that “Lear” will illuminate Shakespeare’s original, you can enjoy the lurches from loony lyricism to blunt contemporary speech. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z He also offered a blunt to whoever saw the most breasts in one night. Snapchat CEO Apologizes for Explicit Frat Emails 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z “They’re not medicines anymore. They’re poison. What your neurologist did is unforgivable. I’m sorry to be this blunt, but you have to know the truth. If we don’t move quickly, you could die.” Kurt Eichenwald’s Memoir of a ‘Mind Unraveled’ 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z It includes sculpture by both artists — and installations that attest, in different registers, to a kind of psychological unease in each artist’s work, touching on racial history and violence in blunt ways. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z The movie is very blunt about racism, which extends from the top down. | 'Red Tails': ?Red Tails,? George Lucas?s Tale of Tuskegee Airmen - Review 2012-01-19T13:00:00Z Rhetoric is also, to be blunt, the art of talking people into things, and it flourishes in courtrooms and on campaign trails, in singles bars and television commercials, over dinner tables and in Internet forums. “Tubes”: What the Internet is made of 2012-05-28T00:30:00Z I’ve never thought of my writing, no matter how blunt or honest, as coming from any place but this core of love. Writing truthfully about my father: An act of resistance, an act of love 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z By the time the movie’s blunt title ripples across the screen in blood red you know payback is a thudding heartbeat away. | 'Vengeance': Let a Hail of Bullets Be Your Umbrella 2010-12-09T23:48:00Z But in the spirit of the season, let me be blunt. A. O. Scott’s Top Movies of 2013 2013-12-11T15:00:05Z In “Never Rarely,” the hurdles to an abortion are as legion as they are maddening and pedestrian, a blunt political truism that Hittman brilliantly connects to women’s fight for emancipation. ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ Review: A Woman’s Heroic Journey 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Addressing a pool of about 140 people, he was blunt about the limits of the decision they would be asked to make if chosen to sit on the jury. Harvey Weinstein trial is 'not a referendum on #MeToo', says judge 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z He described McNeil as “very honest and principled,” but also “blunt” and sometimes “a little sour.” A star reporter’s resignation, a racial slur and a newsroom divided: Inside the fallout at the New York Times 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z I think people are able to be more honest, blunt and forthcoming now. Martin Lawrence on Explosions On and Offscreen 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z With their blunt catchphrases and outfits color-coordinated to the liquid in Silk’s wineglass, the sisters can come across as just another act in our era’s 3,000-ring circus. Who are Diamond and Silk? How two small-town ex-Democrats found fame as ‘warriors’ for Trump. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Furthermore it brings us neatly to 1902's Grimm Tales Made Gay and, for those who like their innuendo with an even blunter edge, Shag: The Story of a Dog. Only the smuttiest book title can win the battle of the Wankhs 2010-08-19T10:31:00Z The battle scenes are staged with blunt, ground-level virtuosity, and with a welcome regard for spatial and visual coherence. Movie Review: ‘Fury' Has Brad Pitt Killing Nazis Again 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z “My headspace was just not the best,” Thompson says, focused on the afternoon blunt he’s rolling on the porch table. Travis Thompson gets real about mental health, dark side of success on pivotal new “YOUGOOD?” 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Her take on this tradition is beyond blunt. Album review: Lady Gaga, 'Born This Way' 2011-05-20T05:36:35Z “It’s a big, blunt, battering ram of a movie, but it’s not dumb,” Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her review for The Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President’ and ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Banks can be as blunt and direct as the character, albeit with a bit more mirth. ‘Better Call Saul’: Jonathan Banks Says Goodbye to Mike 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Latin music is surging in popularity worldwide, as the snappy beat and blunt lyrics of reggaeton thrive across streaming services. The Latin Grammys, Still Over the Top in the Shadow of the Pandemic 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z As a comic, she was blunt but funny, just as she is today. After Work With: For Joy Behar, It?s Lights, Cameras, Accent (and Opinion) 2010-07-09T19:25:00Z To me, the title is strong and blunt. 'Fear the Walking Dead': Show runner Dave Erickson reveals new details 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Insight into her character through her many blunt relatives are also highlights. How “The Chair” needs to do better by Sandra Oh 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z In the movie’s estimation, their racism is preferable to its nasty, blunter southern cousin because their racism is often spoken in Italian. Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z “Too bad she tends to blunt her points by pushing them too hard.” Florence King, Writer Who Wielded an Acerbic Wit, Dies at 80 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z She was in her late thirties by then and her fascinated alertness had been blunted, her erectness slightly compromised. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Despite Mr. Browning’s reserved persona onstage, in person he can be refreshingly blunt. New York?s Pioneering World Music Impresario Announces His Retirement 2011-04-10T21:53:59Z Unlike the naïve young analysand, we won’t be beguiled by Lucy’s blunt advice. How “Peanuts” Created a Space for Thinking 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Hua's brisk yet blunt storytelling style doesn't waste time with sentiment, as story after story follows these various characters who practice deception. March to the shelves for these new books: Recommended reading for spring break and beyond 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z This is not to say that CBS blunted Clinton’s edges entirely to serve its marketing purposes. "The View" receives Hillary and Chelsea Clinton with uncharacteristic bipartisanship 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Everything about Perry screams rock star, from her tousled brunette hair to the tattoos that adorn her body and even her face, to her blunt, occasionally coarse talk. Producer gives performing 2nd try with new band 2011-04-07T13:05:15Z They were very different personalities: Churchill was overly blunt and unnecessarily cruel in how she treated the shy and fragile queen. 11 of the most influential royal lovers in British history 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Some titles are blunt instruments, and “How Not to Kill Yourself” is the bluntest I’ve encountered yet in this job. From a Suicide Expert, an Unflinching Guide to Saving Lives 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z Hollywood has long had a tendency to adopt the finest and most interesting comedians and then determinedly blunt the hard edges that make them interesting. Why Robin Williams's true genius lay in his weird and wonderful comedy 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z My feelings about the difference between live and online music were captured in a blunt tweet this month from the young, adventurous pianist and composer Conrad Tao. For a Music Critic, a Vacation That’s All Too Quiet 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Like many of the other new brands, much work has gone into Daye’s tone, which is humorous and blunt where Tampax is euphemistic and prudish. Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z |
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