"Chinese students do not like most African students," a young Chinese man, an electronics student at Beijing University, said with typical bluntness.

Elbryan had shown him the error of his ways, as hadJuraviel, with typical elven bluntness.

Ditto for loathing passive constructions in place of active ones, in a point that he makes with typical no-nonsense bluntness.

"I don't think there is much to be said about tomorrow," he said with his typical bluntness.

With typical bluntness, Mr. Moynihan scoffed at the "everybody does it" defense used by some White House defenders.

With typical bluntness Sue Johanson tells older men and women to get over body image: the "turkey neck," the "wear and tear," the hormonal deficiencies.

Kirk asked with typical bluntness.

One character declares with a bluntness not typical of a novel that produces many of its effects by allusion and illusion, "Beria was a psychopath."

"It's funny when you hear these idiots expounding on why my game is so bad," Duval said with typical bluntness.

At one point, Jack, with typical bluntness, asks Connie: "Do you think you're see-through, like a plastic bag?