These considerations move me to put in a paragraph of dry facts just here.
I've spent enough years evaluating seemingly impersonal data that I've learned to look beyond the dry facts.
He might have been discussing some dry fact in a report until you saw his eyes.
"It's all very well to master dry facts," said Pother as though correcting a student in class.
Why don't you give me the dry facts and let my imagination do what it can?
Perhaps Typee actually captures the truth more vividly than the dry facts alone would have done.
His would be a record not of just dry facts, but of a child, he said, a three-dimensional human.
It contains no speculations or stories, only dry facts and techniques.
The "You're too weak to leave us" line is fatal, even if, in terms of dry economic facts, it happens to be true.
He said it as a man would state any dry fact: sky is up, earth is down, water flows south.