Colonel Greenburg's matter-of-fact accounts of extraordinary events could hardly have provided a greater contrast.

The mezzo-soprano Tatiana Troyanos offered a searching, almost harrowing reading, which sat oddly in Mr. Ozawa's matter-of-fact account.

Unstated in the matter-of-fact account, but apparent behind the scenes, was the loneliness of command, the agonizing decisions that tune and again had saved the isolated band from certain destruction.

And after the subtlety of his Faure and Debussy readings, Mr. Dutoit's matter-of-fact account of the Mussorgsky seemed peculiarly bland.

Mr. Friedkin's horrifyingly matter-of-fact account is powerful enough to be persuasive even without that sentimental aspect of the story.

The present report is written for this professional group and is a matter-of-fact, general account of work in the USA since 1939 aimed at the production of such bombs.

They begin with a wonderfully matter-of-fact account of the murder of a key figure in the French Revolution.

Indeed, I've found that the elements many people take to be surreal are simply matter-of-fact accounts.

Chester's matter-of-fact account was impossible to contradict, especially for someone who'd been making messes in his drawers in 1917.

Hannah Mitchell's matter-of-fact account is typical: