But there were blunt expressions of racism, too, a feeling that their neighborhood was being maligned by the news media and, above all, talk of defending their world.
At this moment, the balance seems to be tipping in favor of blunter expression.
Already his blunt and bored expression had changed to one none present in the hall had ever seen; the boy's lips curled with a pride that bordered upon arrogance.
The singer's blunt expressions of working-class anger, she said, come out of personal experience.
A man of the Kemfort-Harland vintage, Grebe held a blunt, hard expression beneath his grizzled hair.
The substitution of blunter expressions - a few dysphemisms - could be salutary.
His was just the most blunt expression of a spreading concern.
Mahfouz's prose is characterised by the blunt expression of his ideas.
Prince Charles's blunt expression of those attitudes in the 1980's started a public shouting match with the country's design establishment that attracted world attention.
It is a blunt expression of what was once innocently called the culture of consumption.