When he left, Cardona paused at the doorway, to leave a blunt reminder.

If he ever really forgot where he was, death would be a blunt reminder.

Larch also appreciated the blunt reminder given him by the prostitutes in the South End.

Coffins also serve as blunt reminders of mortality.

Tennessee's shocking collapse against the Gators a season ago brings a blunt reminder of the consequences.

A chunk is devoted to the Guggenheim Bilbao, a blunt reminder of how architecture has been used as a marketing gambit.

That was her bluntest reminder yet of the promised hundred gold marks, but for once it did not slow him.

The point is indirectly reinforced a few paragraphs later, in a blunt reminder that anyone caught carrying or brandishing weapons will be immediately ejected.

The mood of frustration and even anger served as a blunt reminder that these are days of tough political reckoning for Mr. Pataki.

The Americans will receive another blunt reminder Monday when they encounter the hard old boys in their first game of this World Cup.