His speech held nothing of the abrupt bluntness of Vil Holland's.
So intent had she become that she hardly noticed the cruel bluntness of Watts's reply.
She had made herself quite at home, and, in spite of a certain bluntness and vulgarity of which she would never rid herself as long as she lived, she seemed to have improved.
His voice was not unkind, in spite of the bluntness of the words, and in desperation she raised her eyes.
Redworth's bluntness killed the flying metaphors, and at the end of the entertainment he and Sullivan Smith were drumming upon politics.
His military bluntness disdained to disguise itself amidst those circles where a meaner parvenu would have been most ambitious to shine.
All the bluntness and coarseness of feeling in the workmanship of fig.
But, independent of outward show, his blackguard impudence of address was construed into honourable bluntness becoming his supposed military profession; his hectoring passed for courage, and his sauciness for wit.
They are jealous of his fame and popularity, and, to say the truth, he has often irritated them, by his bluntness and his disregard for their opinion and rank.
I like that bluntness of his," she professed to her daughter, "and I don't mind his making light of me.
Without looking at the priest she asked with the child-like bluntness that characterized her, "Why don't you like to walk in the procession of Corpus Domini?
There was no Boynton on hand to warn him with what he termed brutal bluntness that he was tempting Providence again.
Hope you'll forgive my bluntness this morning and for shooting off my mouth so much this evening.
David's bluntness was of such a gentle sort that she soon got used to it, and found it a pleasant contrast to the polite insincerity so common.
No fear of that; you are not a Carrol," answered Harry, with the pitiless bluntness of a resentful and rebellious boy.
One doesn't ask your opinion, Joseph," said Mary Catesby, with a bluntness that would have felled a bullock.
The bluntness of the words was most uncomfortable, but there was no reason to doubt their sincerity.
The coarse bluntness and directness of the man did not offend her.
I don't believe you," said he, with the angry bluntness of jealousy.
Once more his accustomed bluntness of manner returned, and he snapped, "Oh, why in the devil didn't I have sense enough to bring another assistant?
Character, bluntness of the old English, shown at the creation of knights of the Bath, II.
Madame du Cayla[23] is come over to prosecute some claim upon this Government, which the Duke has discovered to be unfounded, and he had the bluntness to tell her so as they were going to dinner.
Even Irving, who has been so many years here, has a bluntness which is very foreign to the tone of good society.
In this case the parties in the dispute are women, and one cannot treat their requests with the same bluntness that one treats the requests of men.
But partly, too, it arises from national characteristics, the preference for bluntnessand frankness and outspokenness; the tendency to believe that a display of courtesy and emotion and consideration is essentially insincere.
The man who cut those two uppermost cornices had no time to spare: did as much cornice as he could in half an hour; but would not endure the slightest trace of error in a curve, or of bluntness in an edge.
Masculine fatigue brings with it a healthy bluntness as to what is being expected in the way of emotional responsiveness, and men will not allow their sense of duty to spur their jaded affection to the point of exhaustion.
Incapable from their bluntness of making the slightest impression on the obstinate wood, the iron at each stroke rebounded off, leaving to the eye no vestige of where it had rested.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bluntness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
