In short, blunt phrases, he described exactly what he had just tried to do.

There is no record of Brezhnev's using the blunt phrase quoted by the reviewer.

ZAINAL COMMUNICATED WITH THEM once the next morning; his blunt phrases indicated all was well.

He had a succinct vocabulary of chords, which he strung together into the blunt, direct phrases of punk rock.

Its newspaper ads, which have deep yellow backgrounds, begin with the blunt phrase, "facts are powerful," and proceed to offer a list of superlatives attached to technical claims.

He paused, he stammered, he caught his breath between the words, and he blurted out in little blunt phrases all the hopes of his heart.

Phillip Walker, a 58-year-old blues guitarist who lives in Los Angeles, played at Terra Blues on Wednesday night, and his blunt phrases, broken and irregular, opened a window to an era in which blues culture had its own vocabulary.

At the noon news conference, Gabe Pressman, one of the city's most experienced political reporters, urged Mr. Girgenti to step away from the careful language of the law, then supplied a few blunt phrases of his own.

Kai replied, grinning a little at her blunt phrase.