Her teacher, a no-nonsense sort, was so appalled by this flight of fancy that she banished the girl from her classroom.

"We'll see him now," Tilly announced and stood up, brushing her skirts straight in a no-nonsense sort of way.

"I was never concerned with Leroy," said Johnson, a quiet, no-nonsense sort.

He was a blocky, no-nonsense sort of fellow with heavy shoulders and no sign of the paunch that almost all men develop in their fifties.

The only woman in the group - a middle-aged, no-nonsense sort - walked up to the flower bed where I had been weeding.

Tuggle said Coach Dan Reeves, generally considered a no-nonsense sort, came up with the idea.

At forty-three, she was a bit old for her rank, but she looked like a competent, no-nonsense sort of person.

Elaine Hough seemed a no-nonsense sort of woman with a brisk manner and short black hair streaked with gray.

He's a somber, no-nonsense sort, weary from millions of years of war on Cybertron.

She was a spare, no-nonsense sort of woman, well into middle age.