Put bluntly, many politicians are asking themselves this: What's in it for me?

Put bluntly, the center has a fancy new headquarters but no money in the till.

"Bluntly put, I think they did it for the shock value," he said.

Put bluntly, things are not going to hell in a handbasket.

Few members of the Court have put the argument so bluntly.

Literally sick from fear, Jane bluntly put the question she had come so far to ask.

Donough had never heard the question put quite so bluntly.

It was more bluntly put than courtesy would have deemed appropriate, especially with a friend.

Bluntly put, the ends simply do not justify the means.

The reason, put bluntly, is a long history of badly received games based on movies.