This put an entirely new aspect on the matter.

Still, there was no alternative to putting a bold face on the matter.

Not that Anne could have put her feelings on the matter into just such clear definition.

Eventually, however, they put a bold face on the matter.

I determined to put as bold a face on the matter as possible.

But tomorrow never happens - and, worse, the wife does the one thing absolutely guaranteed to put the kibosh on the whole matter.

He decided to put a bold face on the matter.

That does put a different face on the matter.

That put something of a different complexion on the matter.

He wanted to put a very unpleasant ideological slant on the matter.