In a 2008 article, the Christian Science Monitor described her thusly: " Thomas, a fixture in American politics, is outspoken, blunt, demanding, forceful and unrelenting.

In response to this article, Israel's Ambassador to Australia and non-resident Ambassador to New Zealand, Yuval Rotem, sharply criticized McCarten and accused him of " blunt anti-Israel sentiment which is a camouflage for anti-Semitism ".

Normally diplomatic, in a newspaper article in South Africa, Johnson was blunt with his hosts about race relations in the country: " I am certain that the average man-in-the-street avoids the problem too much for, at the moment, you're living in a fool's paradise ".

Those statements were not often easy to interpret, unlike Kekkonen's blunt and sometimes harsh statements ( see, for example, " The Republic's President 1956-1982 "/ Tasavallan presidentti 1956-1982, published in Finland in 1993-94 ; " The Republic's President 1982-1994 "/ Tasavallan presidentti 1982-1994, published in Finland in 1993-94 ; Mauno Koivisto, " Two Terms I: Memories and Notes, 1982-1994 "/ Kaksi kautta I. Muistikuvia ja merkintöjä 1982-1994, Helsinki: Kirjayhtymä Publishing Ltd., 1994 ).

The station remained in mono through this period, but beginning on December 31, 1971, an automated top 40 format was launched in stereo, apparently in an attempt to blunt the popularity of WRKO ( 680 AM ).

Initial reports in the newspapers attributed his injuries to a severe beating with a blunt instrument by unknown assailants .< ref >" Singer Hospitalized ," < i > Spartanburg ( SC ) Herald </ i >, December 2, 1967, p. 8.

At the UN, a similar American proposal to Jordan on December 18, explicitly calling for Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank removed any remaining differences with the prime minister, since they both saw this as a challenge requiring a blunt and energetic response.

Dagger Brigade units raced to the Ardennes, and fighting continuously from 17 December 1944 to 14 January 1945, helped blunt and turn back the German offensive.

When a committee member asked him who won the Korean War, his response was blunt: " The Communists.

Similarly, Brookesmith writes, " Sceptics have always asked a blunt and fundamental question: what was the trio's state of health before their alleged encounter?

At a literary luncheon, the celebrated author Ariadne Oliver is asked a blunt question by a complete stranger: Mrs. Burton-Cox ’ s son is considering marriage to one of Mrs. Oliver ’ s god-daughters, Celia Ravenscroft.

Musical theatre historian Miles Kreuger and conductor John McGlinn propose that the word was not an insult, but a blunt illustration of how white people then perceived black people.

It then enlarges the hole, gradually turning round as it goes, and eventually severing the blunt end of the shell completely to make a lid.

The line is then inserted using the Seldinger technique: a blunt guidewire is passed through the needle, then the needle is removed.

Charles Blount ( pronounced blunt ), 8th Baron Mountjoy and 1st Earl of Devonshire ( 1563 – 3 April 1606 ) was an English nobleman and soldier who served as Lord Deputy of Ireland under Queen Elizabeth I, then as Lord Lieutenant under King James I.

The Sovereign then exits the Coronation Theatre, entering St Edward's Chapel ( also within the Abbey ), preceded by the bearers of the Sword of State, the Sword of Spiritual Justice, the Sword of Temporal Justice and the Sword of Mercy ( the last has a blunt tip ).

" In this trial the important part played by Henry began to appear ; till then he had purposely kept in the background, and concealed a deep cunning beneath the blunt appearance of a peasant-soldier.

* It is then split open and layers separated using sharp and blunt dissection.

Various methods are employed for breaking in new pointe shoes including deforming them against hard surfaces, striking them with blunt objects, wetting the toe boxes and then wearing them, and heating them to soften the glues, but these methods may shorten a pointe shoe's usable lifetime.

The ' victim ' in some cases, is shown a sharp implement, and then blindfolded, and a blunt knife used on their skin ( for example: the practice of insertive sex play without the certain knowledge of the submissive that an exchange of implements — blunt for sharp — has occurred.

In the battle, Frey gets a blunt trauma to the tibia that does stay out of the playing fields for a few months, forcing the sports director purple Pantaleo Corvino to return to the market to hire a replacement, then signed Bogdan Lobonț.

Placement using the Seldinger technique, in which a blunt guidewire is passed through a needle ( over which the chest tube is then inserted ) has been described.

Cavalcanti establishes, with loving care and the occasional wry wink, the ultimate bucolic English scene, then takes an almost sadistic delight in tearing it to bloody shreds in an orgy of shockingly blunt, matter-of-fact violence.

The book was notable for its long excerpts of writers Higgins admired, including Gay Talese, William Manchester and Irwin Shaw, and also for its unusually blunt judgments (" If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

Seneca warns that this education should not blunt the spirit of the children nor should they be humiliated or treated severely.

This is presumably with the aim that the birds ' blunt beaks should strike, but, as Alice observes, it is complicated by the fact that they keep looking back up at the players-as well as the hedgehogs ' tendency to scuttle away without waiting to be hit.

Modern foils average 89 cm in length, and have standardized, tapered, quadrangular blades which are designed to present a blunt ( and therefore non-lethal ) tip should they snap.

On this occasion, Trudeau said, " I don't feel I should be closing off any options ," but added, " because of the history packaged into my name, a lot of people are turning to me in a way that [...] to be blunt, concerns me.

For sharp bending, the fold should be scored ( scratched ) first with a blunt stylus.

To mitigate this a number of guiderail end treatments exist such as " Extruder end treatments ", " eccentric loaders " and " Driveway wrap treatments " which result in blunt ends rarely being left exposed in modern installations.

Softer knives would blunt very rapidly, making the value of Af inexact.

Injuries occurring from bokken are very similar to those caused by clubs and similar battering weapons and include compound fractures, ruptured organs, and other such blunt force injuries.

Medieval surgeons were very well capable of setting and caring for bone fractures resulting from blunt weapons.

He was very blunt with his patients, treating them often brusquely and sometimes even rudely.

Ranging from small letter openers to scale replica " wallhangers ", these items are commonly made from stainless steel ( which makes them either brittle or poor at holding an edge ) and have either a blunt or very crude edge.

In the pre-adult fresh water stage, the eel also has phenotypic plasticity because fish-eating eels develop very wide mandibles, making the head look blunt.

They are easy to work with, not messy ( as paint and markers are ), blunt ( removing the risk of sharp points present when using a pencil or pen ), non-toxic, very inexpensive, and available in a wide variety of colors.

The term includes several different taxonomic groups: the order Echinoida, the order Cidaroida or " slate-pencil urchins ", which have very thick, blunt spines, and others.

His most ardent admirer is Big Ethel, a gangly, awkward, but very friendly girl who chases after Jughead at every opportunity, despite Jughead's constant and blunt refusals.

A very similar ( but blunt ) tool used for digging in hard ground is called a mattock.

* Carpenter's adze-A heavy adze, often with very steep curves, and a very heavy, blunt pole.

Rigid dinghies for small yachts are very small ( 2 metres ), usually with a pram ( blunt ) bow to get more beam ( width ) in a shorter length.

This means that at longer distances, where the waves graze the ionosphere at a very blunt angle, the MUF may be much higher.

Pardalotes or peep-wrens are a family, Pardalotidae, of very small, brightly coloured birds native to Australia, with short tails, strong legs, and stubby blunt beaks.

No sacred Armenian fact was left un-attacked .” Thomas de Waal describes Mammadova as a sophisticated end of what “ in Azerbaijan has become a very blunt instrument indeed .” Both Ziya Bunyadov and Farida Mammadova are known for their anti-Armenian public pronouncements and pamphlets.

The black-footed ferret has a very long body and a blunt head.

When blunt, they tend to produce powdery sawdust, rather than the longer, clean shavings characteristic of a sharp chain ; a sharp saw also needs very little force from the operator to push it into the cut.

Its two colleagues, which " are not very well separated from the main cusp ", are " very blunt ", ( quotes from Godfroit & Battauk 1997, p. 588 ).

Mary Poppins also had a very similar attitude while actively encouraging positive imagination ( Susan tends to say things like " Real children don't go hoppity-skip unless they're on drugs "), took children on magical adventures ( Susan does so to teach geography ), introduced children to supernatural creatures ( Susan employs such beings as guest speakers, including her own grandfather ), and had a magic umbrella ( which, while not used as a blunt object, was magical much like Death's scythe ).

: Ruth Richardson was very clear, very blunt, very honest about ( the ECA's ) purpose.

The Thor was initially deployed with a very blunt conical G. E.