Both begin by bluntly describing the harsh realities of life as a cancer patient through the wry sensibility of a smart, sarcastic teenage girl.

When the trade was officially made, Jokinen bluntly described his feelings on the deal: "It's a brutal business.

Her husband was, as she bluntly describes it, "shattered."

For the same reasons, a 1999 German secret service report more bluntly described Liechtenstein as "a criminal state in the heart of Europe".

It bluntly described Mr. Echeverría's standing orders to Mexico's security forces.

Ron pulls out his catheter and bluntly describes his problem.

In a 1960 interview, Kanner bluntly described parents of autistic children as "just happening to defrost enough to produce a child."

Mr. Hoder describes the effects of mass production more bluntly: "People have acquired a taste for very thin, tasteless beers."

How refreshing to hear a politician who favors both abortion and the death penalty described bluntly as "pro-death."

The 2002 Encyclopedia of Japanese Descendants in the Americas bluntly describes the migration as a "disastrous failure".