Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

The years of imprisonment hardened me... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life... there is no longer anything I can fear.

South African Activist

Nicolas Berggruen

California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side, and I don't mean just physically, but the sunny side is a future. California's worth saving, to put it bluntly.

American Businessman

Sheryl Sandberg

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

American Businesswoman

Henry Rollins

I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.

American Musician

Pete Burns

Over the years, I've had to learn how to deal with people who refuse to take me seriously. That's where I learnt the blunt side of my character.

English Musician

Pierre Poilievre

Let me be blunt, employers do have to raise wages if they can't attract enough employees. That's the free market, that's how it works.

Canadian Politician

Susan Kelechi Watson

That's always fun to play: the person who can be truthful and blunt, and people take it because that's who she is.

Jamaican Actress

Rodney Frelinghuysen

If people are shooting at you, it's human nature to be afraid. I was afraid. I'll be quite blunt about that.

American Politician

Blaise Pascal

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

French Philosopher

Walter Savage Landor

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

English Poet

A blunt object is dull, so it might seem safer, but it can still be dangerous if used with force.

Safety First

Using a blunt knife makes it harder to cut and may require more force, sometimes causing accidents.

Cutting Difficulty

'Blunt' can describe someone's mental sharpness, implying they are slow to understand or perceive.

Metaphorical Use

'Blunt' as a verb can relate to emotions, suggesting making feelings less acute or intense.

Emotional Impact

When something 'blunts' an effect, the result is not as strong or noticeable as it could be.

Lessening Effects

Being 'blunt' can be refreshing or rude, depending on the context and how it's received by others.

Conversational Caution

What is considered 'blunt' can vary greatly among different cultures and social settings.

Cultural Sensitivity

Using 'blunt' language often risks miscommunication, as it lacks the nuances of more diplomatic speech.

Misunderstanding Risk

'Blunt' as a noun is slang for a cigar filled with marijuana, particularly in the US.

Specific Context

Knowing that 'blunt' refers to a type of cigar can help decipher modern music and movie references.

Modern Slang

 something it's really important no we're not gonna tolerate homophobia no more jock yes we're feminists you're very concerned about sexism how do you make people aware of that problem by writing songs as blunt as rape me he got called the voice of a generation a lot and that freaked him out yes he probably got off

Nirvana in the Nineties...

 and it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book right I should just put it bluntly cuz we're all sort of friends here now it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is

Your elusive creative...

 I lived in fear, and, to put it bluntly, was waiting for death to finally release me, expecting to die all alone in a care home. I don't know if it's truly possible to express in words what it's like not to be able to communicate. Your personality appears to vanish into a heavy fog

How My Mind Came Back to...

 to reduce the amount of sickling, blunting symptoms and increasing life expectancy. Bone marrow transplantations offer a curative measure, but these procedures are complicated and often inaccessible. But promising new medications are intervening in novel ways,

How this disease changes...

 And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right? I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now --

 and also growing up in France, I tend to be very blunt, and so I had to explain to them very nicely that in their particular case, there probably wasn't that much in there to protect in the first place. So this was our approach, and it was simple materials,

Molly Stevens: A new way...

 us and many more who can help produce it better with every iteration we move from this collection of these blunt energy draining processes to a more elegant industrial model the tomato sauce producers now that they've tasted this

Andy Ruben: Making...

 If you defend yourself, if you put a stake in the ground, there can be dire consequences. Now we reproduce these patterns not in big, bold and blunt ways, but in the everyday banality of life.

The power of women's...

 the loss of this water creates a space at the blunt end of the egg as the embryo develops so the air space increases and the oxygen it contains will help to

Nature's First Line of...

 FRANCESCA Most avalanche deaths are caused by suffocating under deep drifts or from the blunt force trauma inflicted by the onrush of snow.