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«To make a point, is to be blunt, which is pointless.»
Author: Bob McMahan | Keywords: blunt
«We cannot decide if she is blunt or sharp»
Author: Judy Johnson | Keywords: blunt
«Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.»
«My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.»
Author: Pat Conroy (Novelist) | Keywords: barbarian, blunt, isolated
«The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.»
«Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.»
Author: Max Beerbohm (Wit, Writer) | Keywords: blunt
«If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: blunt, whet, whets, whetted, whetting
«In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it.»
«So sicken waning moons too near the sun,/ And blunt their crescents on the edge of day.»

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