Walter Y. Elisha, an AT&T director, made the remarkably blunt comment to reporters that Mr. Walter "lacked the intellectual leadership to lead AT&T."

Using remarkably blunt language, Sir Donald accused traders of employing "a whole host of improper measures" to undermine the Hong Kong dollar.

The motto of the "Q" campaign, "Vote Your Heart," seemed to many to be remarkably blunt.

Anne, she thought irritably, could be remarkably blunt on occasions.

In many of these images, Arbus's visual approach is remarkably blunt.

Mr. Do Muoi's remarkably blunt request for aid for his tattered nation came as the party replaced more than half of its policy-making group, the Politburo.

In its public statements, Cambodia's new Government has become remarkably blunt in attacking Thailand's dealings with the Khmer Rouge.

But the President and his Administration were assailed at the hearing in remarkably blunt terms for the proposed cuts.

"We will remove some of the accommodation which is in the present monetary policy stance," Mr. Trichet said, in what amounted to a remarkably blunt warning from a normally circumspect central banker.

In places, the report is remarkably blunt in its analysis.