He is known to speak his mind with a bluntness not common in diplomatic circles.
The fledgling democracy and free press are inhibited by Mexicans' rejection of controversy and bluntness.
Such bluntness about job cuts is causing tensions all the way up into the boardroom.
Many of them are breathtakingly direct, but what the bluntness supports, often, is irony rather than excitation.
Similar bluntness earlier this month annoyed a group of Jewish Americans whom he met in the United States.
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The final message in this very effective poster is carried across with a great mixture of subtlety and bluntness.
"We took over the Twitter handle (in 2008) so it wouldn't suck, " the ever-quotable Bourdain said with characteristic bluntness.
This helped him to avoid staleness and the sensual bluntness that breeds mistakes.
In public remarks last week, UAE Ambassador to the US Youssef al-Otaiba made a series of statements whose bluntness was unprecedented.
Right here and now I must apologize to Fed Chairman Alan and former Treasury Secretary Bob for such bluntness--because I'm talking about you.
Thirdly, Mr Kalla tends to speak his mind, and this bluntness puts off many Indonesians, especially, it is said, those of Chinese descent.
And maybe it's this bluntness that got him into trouble with Beijing University--which he accused of inflating the value of its research--and the New Yorker.
He retains that honesty and decency and homespun good sense and, yes, sometimes some bluntness, that he's carried with him since his boyhood in Searchlight.
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Mr Geithner's analysis will be unprecedented as well in its bluntness.
Today, he describes himself as "tough" and not the most "empathetic" person, but his bluntness is appealingly open and he speaks eloquently (and concretely) about strategies for learning.
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It will leave you breathless with its bluntness and emotion.
His brilliance and bluntness endeared him to Czar Alexander III.
Her splendid bluntness may be starting to work in ex-Yugoslavia.
Gen McChrystal, one of the ablest commanders America has produced during the last few decades, has fallen victim to this in-fighting as much as to his own bluntness and lack of diplomacy.
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