In the Second Olynthiac, the orator bluntly expressed his annoyance for the dubious stance of his countrymen and for the fact that they remain idle.

Maycroft said, 'I hope you won't express that view so bluntly to Commander Dalgliesh.'

Just two days after Russian and Chechen officials signed an agreement to end the Chechen war, top Kremlin officials bluntly expressed misgivings today about the accord.

But the conciliatory mood of the meeting was almost disrupted when a teen-ager, Clara Cruz, bluntly expressed the frustrations of her community.

Admiral Leighton Smith, the commander of NATO's forces during Deny Flight, expressed this sentiment quite bluntly, saying "Don't ever have another dual key."

"The Soviet Government," he said, "is of the opinion that the German guarantee of Rumania is aimed against the interests of Soviet Russia - if one may express oneself so bluntly."

True, Billy Joel expressed the same sentiment a bit more bluntly in a love song addressed to a woman he has long since divorced: "I love you just the way you are."

Xander's parents arrive and Mrs. Harris rants about not being in the wedding pictures and Mr. Harris bluntly expresses his distaste for the "circus people" on Anya's side.

The Vatican II document "Nostra Aetate" broke with the church's exclusivist stance expressed so bluntly by Augustine as "the gods of the pagans are demons," and it moved toward a more inclusive theology of "non-Christian religions."

Angela has a brief conversation with Erin shortly afterward, where she bluntly expresses her humiliation and reminds Erin that she wants to forget the memories of dating him.