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Christie has “a lot of aspects that people really like, boldness, bluntness,” Vander Plaats said.

Thus he plays his weak hand with a bluntness that often backfires.

Sometimes her bluntness felt painful, but her lack of hypocrisy was inspiring.

The U.S. envoy is direct for a diplomat, but she showed during the Libyan crisis that bluntness can be effective.

"He's pretty ill, dear," he said gently, and Julia found his smooth tenderness infinitely less bearable than Richie's bluntness.

In his few years of campaigning he had lost his instinct of diplomacy, without acquiring a soldier's bluntness.

And he proceeded to discuss the matter with a bluntness which disconcerted the Englishman.

Its exquisite irony mixed with its bluntness told all that was necessary to tell—and forecasted the inevitable fall.

The bluntness of the statement made The Phantom catch his breath.