Chaplain Douglas Fenton is quite matter-of-fact as he tells the story of the severed foot.
Her questions ended not in an inquisitorial lilt but with a descending, matter-of-fact thud.
What is so shattering is the matter-of-fact tone of what the former slaves said.
Wearing a blue blazer and open-neck shirt, Armstrong was direct and matter-of-fact, neither pained nor defensive.
And his matter-of-fact, detailed explanation shows just how remarkable, and risky, the first moon mission really was.
He writes in a direct, matter-of-fact style that puts the horrors he is relating in dark relief.
And so it seemed very matter-of-fact that everyone was going to grow up and go to space.
Ms. Banke, now chairman of Jackson Family Wines, is a very different sort of person much more matter-of-fact than flamboyant.
Eurich says speaking with colleagues about the career change in a non-defensive, matter-of-fact tone earns respect and minimizes pity.
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Approach slowly in a matter-of-fact manner with a big treat in your hands.
As a matter-of-fact, it is irksome for me to clarify this non-existent issue.
Several weeks later, when Murtie questioned Keyes by phone, he found him matter-of-fact when discussing how he'd killed the Curriers.
In a matter-of-fact tone he said that in one room he found six children and two women dead on a bed.
Ever matter-of-fact, she liked that thought of transience, and always refused to sit for the painted portraits that might have lasted.
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Karar tells me all of this in a very matter-of-fact way, and I ask him why he seems so unaffected by it.
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He has that serious matter-of-fact gritty look that should serve him well.
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X-ray plates and the surgeon's matter-of-fact prognosis, raises questions of its own.
He faced his end with incredible bravery, the kind of English bravery that is matter-of-fact, free of drama, and quietly endeavors to continue.
Then in a quick, business-like and matter-of-fact manner, the chair addressed Daschle for the first time by his new title -- majority leader.
The boy has become an efficient killer, stony-faced and unblinking in his matter-of-fact approach to the business of zombie killing and protecting his people.
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The soldiers in the Apache were matter-of-fact about killing and spoke callously about their victims, but the first attack could be judged as a tragic misunderstanding.
Any fool could see, she explained in matter-of-fact tones, that it would be a mistake to proceed with medical treatment if the stars in heaven were aligned against me.
When asked about competition from Teledesic, Storey is suitably matter-of-fact.
As a consequence, misunderstandings often arise - "I'm sorry to have upset you, " a colleague will reply to an email I intended as a matter-of-fact response to a bit of university business.
Purves, a no-nonsense, matter-of-fact former entrepreneur in Australia, told me that the sea around Greenland is so warm that up to 100 new species of fish have been found recently.
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New Yorkers cannot help noticing that Mr Bloomberg's matter-of-fact public utterances, which often leave the impression that he would rather be elsewhere, are no match for Mr Giuliani's at their best.
He had only 4 months left to be Treasury Secretary and he could have come off as a greater hero than he actually was handling the crises in a matter-of-fact pragmatic manner.
Fast forward to late 2011, about a year before the election, when in any political conversation I was confident and matter-of-fact certain that Mitt Romney would rout Barack Obama and be elected president.
Unpretentious, matter-of-fact, thoughtful and completely honest and dependable, I found him to be a true prince of a person and wise about the frailties of Wall Street and the proper course of leadership in crisis.
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