An inviting, plain-spoken ambience prevails — part gallery, part archive.
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He's plain spoken and not given to hyperbole and grand emotion.
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"Milley is much more expressive, much more plain-spoken," said the official.
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But his plain-spoken style and capacity for empathy are powerful tools.
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But she also channels a kind of plain-spoken monumentality that evokes Breugel.
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His small-town, plain-spoken personality was the centerpiece of his early campaigns.
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" He is "the ultimate disrupter," and people find his plain-spoken style "refreshing.
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The album's plain-spoken and emotional lyrics should make for a moving performance.roughtradenyc.
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Nylan's translation is "marvelously pointy and plain-spoken," our critic Dwight Garner writes.
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She is dowdy and plain-spoken, an outcast among the perfumed vipers at court.
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"They always say, 'He is so plain spoken,'" Trump said of the political commentariat.
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Though they come from extremely different traditions, Pusha and Cardi are plain-spoken literalists.
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There is a holiness, too, in Mr. Gerhaher's plain-spoken dignity and pillowy upper range.
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Charlie Manuel, a plain-spoken hitting savant from Virginia, remains the city's kindly baseball uncle.
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The Warren campaign memo about the post-Super Tuesday landscape was the most plain-spoken.
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But he's also just this brilliant, plain spoken millennial who speaks half a dozen languages!
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American Football, in its brief heyday, paired plain-spoken declarations of feeling with knotty arrangements.
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Democrats hope the plain-spoken Biden can appeal to blue-collar voters in the district.
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The characters, in particular the plain-spoken and politically incorrect Karen, occasionally crack racially tinged jokes.
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Though she is movingly plain-spoken on her records, Parton's star persona is anything but plain.
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"We are plain spoken, common sense people who take pride in their work," the site said.
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Mr. Trump was the plain-spoken truth teller Mr. Zupon wanted to see shake up Washington.
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Dutch people like to point out that they are an aggressively egalitarian and plain-spoken lot.
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Photo: GettyMo Brooks is just a plain-spoken man from Alabama with some theories on climate change.
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They were plain-spoken, no-fuss athletes, tenacious competitors but also paragons of good cheer and sportsmanship.
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They're fiction in a plain-spoken, observational, unadorned style that doesn't really exist in American TV drama.
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The songs on "Semper Femina" use deceptively plain-spoken vocabulary to conjure sometimes cryptic relationships and events.
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Today Gloria de Piero, a plain-spoken former television journalist, clings on with a majority of just 441.
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Now Maine is in the spotlight, with attention drawn to Paul LePage, its plain-spoken, right-wing governor.
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For the media, it's using plain-spoken, objective language to state that Trump's position has no Constitutional basis.
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Plain-spoken and genial, he was the first U.A.W. leader who had not been close to Mr. Reuther.
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He sold himself as a plain-spoken crime fighter, someone who's honest and in touch with his own problems.
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The same wisdom holds that in a time of anti-establishment rage, voters are desperate for plain-spoken authenticity.
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Plain-spoken populism, simple messages and the occasional use of profanity on the stump also form a common thread.
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I'm a tall, fat, plain-spoken woman and men my age are dating women in their 30s and 40s.
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His plain-spoken words and Irma's promise of devastation forced one of the largest evacuations this country has seen.
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" The plain-spoken and eloquent quotations in this book come directly from her 1878 memoir, "Narrative of Sojourner Truth.
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There's also something about her that she is moderate and plain-spoken — that authenticity will resonate with voters here.
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Nonetheless, the election is widely considered to be a referendum on the brash, plain-spoken leader's three years in office.
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In part, it's about her treatment and her onrushing frailties, and this material is plain-spoken, harrowing and invariably moving.
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And he is a plain-spoken son of an orator whose resonant convention speech sprang him into instant presidential contention.
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It was a plain-spoken and evocative message from a grieving 211-year-old whose life had been irrevocably altered.
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A plain-spoken product of working-class Boston, Mr. Kelly has reportedly asked for full control of White House operations.
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Unfortunately, none of these moments in the film come close to the plain spoken words of Lisane Basquiat at the screening.
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For Gucci Mane, it's an elevated version of the plain-spoken raps he's been leaning on since his release from prison.
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Ms. Crutchfield's plain-spoken songwriting and clear, sweet voice tie her work together, whether or not distortion pedals are in use.
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Plain-spoken and dressed casually in polo shirts and chinos, they seem more like high school teachers than seasoned investment professionals.
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One center mainstay, Dee Burress, a plain-spoken woman who liked to perform, died last year at the age of 76.
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David Boyd's translation is smooth and plain-spoken, if occasionally marred by a jarring American phrase ("we're talking big leagues here").
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"Chungking isn't half bad when the sun shines," the plain-spoken general wrote in his diary, using the spelling of the period.
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"It was a crapshoot," recalled Berne Evans, the plain-spoken owner of Sun Pacific, during an interview in his office in Pasadena.
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His band includes Chicago improvisers like the drummer Frank Rosaly, and captures a plain-spoken in-betweenness native to that city's scene.
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Instead it takes on a more personable tone befitting its plain-spoken subject, allowing the audience to enjoy Ivins's homespun, merciless wit.
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The dining room is plain-spoken, with scuffed tile underfoot and only a handful of tables, and desserts almost outnumber savory dishes.
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But most voters in Washington and Oregon don't know that — they're just seeing ads with plain-spoken farmers and penny-pinching moms.
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He didn't think it would take much to turn it into a libretto: The script is plain-spoken, concise and naturally musical.
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Written in plain-spoken prose, the slim volume focuses on a character who in many ways personifies a demographic panic in Japan.
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But his flexible and plain-spoken and often lusty work — he has published more than 50 volumes — has found a wide audience.
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The Times created the fellowship to honor Mr. Carr, who was known for a writing style that was both plain-spoken and elegant.
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In testimony that was plain-spoken but forceful, he accused Mr. Trump of lying, defaming the F.B.I. and trying to derail an investigation.
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In Winter's plain-spoken but unrelenting prose, we feel the children's anguish like a throbbing pain for which there is no easy remedy.
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Plain-spoken, he had none of the polish of former chairmen, and unlike most of them he had never been a service chief.
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For two decades, he ran Royal Siam, a plain-spoken Thai restaurant in Chelsea, alongside his wife, Mandy, a native of Guangzhou, China.
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Opinion Columnist On this day 150 years ago, Ulysses S. Grant gave his first inaugural address — a short, plain-spoken statement of intent.
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It was the only ingredient in the omelet on my plate at Mama Lee, a small, plain-spoken Taiwanese restaurant in Bayside, Queens.
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BRIAN, YOU'RE A PLAIN SPOKEN GUY, SO MAYBE YOU CAN MAKE THIS CLEAR FOR ME WHAT EXACTLY THIS RESTRUCTURING SIGNALS ABOUT THE PC MARKET.
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Plain-spoken, well-wrought and hard-won, the extraordinary poems of "Inside the Wave" work that magic with the brute truth of mortal sickness.
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Its inauspicious beginnings are hinted at in the plain-spoken subtitle, "From Refugee Camp to Project," but the happy ending is there by implication.
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Among the few entrees, picanha, a plain-spoken slab of beef sirloin cap rubbed with salt, arrives glowering from the grill: respectable, if unsurprising.
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But he found greater success, and a singular niche, as a singer of his plain-spoken, pungently observant songs, beginning in the early '60s.
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The government's case will be led by Craig Conrath, a plain-spoken and longtime litigator who has worked on merger cases for several administrations.
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WASHINGTON — The target was a New York City titan — plain-spoken but Teflon, irresistible to the tabloids and insistent upon loyalty from his associates.
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Her plain-spoken, self-effacing portraits of modern life are pleasantly distorted but never so messy that the lyrics get lost in the fray.
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That means our government fundamentally needs to step up and be clear and plain-spoken about what we do and why we do it.
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Now, as the moderate wing of the party reasserts itself in the primary campaign, her message of plain-spoken politics is drawing greater attention.
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The first spoonful is plain-spoken, but stir in the pinch of spice at the center — thingay, Sichuan pepper — and the mouth goes numb.
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" — Rick Wilson, Republican political consultant "John Kasich honed his delivery in the G.O.P. debate Thursday night, giving clear, plain-spoken explanations of his economic priorities.
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Since 1998, the chain-smoking, plain-spoken and profane Jones has watched the number of factories represented by his local dwindle to 12 from 38.
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Others are pro-life, or have a small business owner's aversion to taxes and regulation, or are drawn to Mr Trump's plain-spoken speaking style.
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One of their first public statements came from L.D. Barkley, whose plain-spoken claim to humanity would inspire posters like the one in our apartment.
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He was a farmer who couldn't be effectively portrayed as an out-of-touch political elite, and he embraced plain-spoken, red-state economic populism.
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Donald Judd's large, untitled installation piece in unfinished plywood at Gagosian Gallery is a plain-spoken giant that, surprisingly, has quite a bit to say.
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The key to contrition, according to public-relations experts, is projecting sincerity, humanity, and a plain-spoken demeanor — the better to convince a cynical public.
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With a rare combination of deft, classic country sounds and plain-spoken storytelling, Shook bucks both Nashville's mainstream and the overly self-aware Americana scene.
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Despite his flaws, Swedes took his plain-spoken style — as well as his furniture — to heart, voting him the top entrepreneur of all time in 2014.
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Plain-spoken and diminutive, the Polish-born Ben-Gurion stepped down as collectivist prime minister in 1963, aged 76, and retired to a spartan desert hut.
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Despite his flaws, Swedes took his plain-spoken style — as well as his furniture — to heart, voting him the top entrepreneur of all time in 2014.
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That chatty plain-spoken approach pays off, however, once Galfard digs into the headier realms of special relativity, quantum mechanics, black hole physics and string theory.
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The week off comes after an opinion poll showed support for Joyce, a plain-spoken small-town accountant turned politician, had tumbled in his rural electorate.
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She sometimes shifts between plain-spoken, even folksy slang and her old kewpie doll voice, code-switching between savvy and silly, gimlet-eyed and wide-eyed.
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The tenor Matthew Polenzani sang the title role of the ruler unhappy inside his power bubble with a plush, slightly woolly tone and plain-spoken phrasing.
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Over and over, you imagine what the plain-spoken socialist war veteran from Indiana would make of our planet-destroying, science-denying, reality-TV American disaster.
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Sometimes what's bespoke compels the opposite of novelty — it captures what's right in front of us: the plain-spoken; the dear friend; her most conspicuous chin.
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It is entirely possible that Mr. Foye, a blunt and plain-spoken executive, no longer has any interest in accommodating a self-congratulatory exercise by board members.
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He's a singer-songwriter of observant insight and penetrating empathy, brilliantly adept at compressing a complicated range of emotions into a terse, plain-spoken turn of phrase.
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It's a harrowing collection, gravid with meaning, unflinching in its appraisal of the author's mistakes, including infidelity, and plain-spoken in its reckoning with his life's terminus.
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Indeed, Brühl imbues the alienist with a plain-spoken dignity, even in the moments when his behavior is demanding or shocking by the standards of his day.
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But Ms. Clark, a plain-spoken former trial-court judge, vowed to get to the bottom of the shooting of the woman killed in October, Deborah Danner.
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It seems to me that all this nonsense about being ''authentic'' and ''unapologetic'' and ''plain-spoken'' is just an excuse to be boorish, rude, cruel and insulting.
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Ms. Uchida's playing, plain-spoken and limpid, turns it into a kind of lullaby, the crossing of her hands like the gently rocking boat of a children's rhyme.
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Most have been shaped around a yearlong tour to promote his 2017 book "Promise Me, Dad," a plain-spoken account of the final year of Beau Biden's life.
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His appearances there, and on CNN and MSNBC, displayed a modest Midwest manner, plain-spoken style and approachable demeanor — all of which made him seem less, well, unusual.
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She was a friendly, plain-spoken Lancashire woman, animated on the subject of the Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, (whom she despised) and her husband (whom she adored).
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This plain-spoken creator of some of the most complex and beautiful watches in the world sees the Swiss Watch industry to be in turmoil but not in peril.
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The company's security explainer is plain-spoken, and the company will let you send in copies of your bills if you still don't want to part with your credentials.
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"The president has shown that he tends to be, shall we say, plain-spoken and forthright," said Bill Otis, special White House counsel to former President George H.W. Bush.
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With persistence and unusual self-assurance (and a good portion of his savings), the plain-spoken father of three has clawed his way to the verge of show business.
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For some, he is a breath of fresh air: perhaps a bit rough around the edges, but a strong person, plain-spoken and able to make America great again.
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Favoring plain-spoken lyrics tinged with millennial malaise and whimsical production underscored by stuttering beats, Verzache self-releases the sort of charming, lo-fi tracks destined for Spotify playlists.
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It's crowded with noble, villainous and comical characters: police spies and magistrates; radical firebrands and anxious liberals; pompous officials and plain-spoken workers; servants, tradesman, gossips, thugs and children.
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Yet she was far too down-to-earth and plain-spoken to be genuinely imperious, as is made clear in a short film by another Carnegie habitué, Josef Astor.
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At this point, sending up the plain-spoken virility of Ernest Hemingway — perhaps the most parodied of all American writers — may indeed be like shooting fish in a barrel.
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One after another, in words both plain-spoken and deeply personal, admirers paid tribute to Ms. Fisher by "coming out" on Twitter with their own stories of mental illness.
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Dr. Rubin, cheerful and plain-spoken, had a lifelong love of the stars, championed women in science and was blunt about the limits of humankind's vaunted knowledge of nature.
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The delivery in the chorus also makes me mentally go straight to "It's Britney bitch," both in terms of the plain-spoken reanimation of the word and the dgaf attitude.
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Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, the committee's plain-spoken chairman, said the panel is likely to vote on the nomination on April 3, with the full Senate vote likely soon after.
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The pitch is a curious, emotionally poignant one coming from Mr. Duffy, a gruff, plain-spoken New Yorker with a background in real estate and a degree in political science.
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The results are the latest evidence of Mr. Buttigieg's strength in Iowa, where his moderate political views, plain-spoken style and military history have resonated in the early voting state.
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"Three Times" shows her experience in reform school after she stabs her mother and "5 Years On" tracks her stumbling progress into adulthood, each with plain-spoken grace and compassion.
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Dr. McDonald, 62, is a plain-spoken Texan with a mystical streak who spends his spare time working on a 1.53,000-page manuscript on the religious iconography of the lotus.
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Mr. Ryman extended this tradition with an insistent literal-mindedness, a tinkerer's joy in physical minutiae and an abiding faith in the plain-spoken poetics of his materials and tools.
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She is a popular figure at home, where her all-court game, modest and plain-spoken personality, and family history have struck a chord with the younger and older sets.
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While experts say more clarity might help reduce financial market volatility, some of Powell's comments appeared to have had an opposite effect, a sign being plain-spoken also carries risks.
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A seminal moment was the first of three live debates hosted by Facebook in April 2025, when Mr Nuttall and Jess Phillips, the plain-spoken former Labour MP now leading OTM!
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The plain-spoken, 59-year-old Nevadan is the rare House Republican who's given the divisive, controversial GOP nominee a full-throated endorsement — and now appears to be paying the price.
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From her youth until her last moments on earth, Barbara Bush could be plain spoken and strong willed at times and always radiated a humanity and goodwill that is quintessentially American.
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In conversation, Densley—who spoke with me over the phone earlier this month—is easy-going and plain-spoken, but prone to casually shifting the conversation into some pretty esoteric directions.
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And just picture what might happen when the many people who couldn't stand him came face-to-face with the diehards who loved him and his plain-spoken, anti-PC ways.
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Finally, while I'll be steering clear of Montauk until fall, I do love the plain-spoken honesty of this Kelly Ann Smith piece about the Shagwong Tavern, in Edible Long Island.
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The signature dishes are plain-spoken versions of Italian classics: orecchiette pasta with a tangy marriage of shrimp and fava bean cream; meaty Cantabrico anchovies served on bread with whipped butter.
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We already understand that the president grew up hard, poor, plain-spoken, proud; what we don't understand, and the play fails to show us, is the man beneath the self-invention.
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Especially when they are as cuttingly plain-spoken and incisive via off the cuff and/or brilliantly planted commentary by this kid's mother, stealing her own adorable little moment in the spotlight.
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Powell has tried to open up the Fed and make the bank more approachable with plain-spoken analyses of the U.S. economy and a pledge to speak to reporters monthly in 2019.
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Despite the depiction of Durant as a villain by some basketball fans, the first impression he made hardly fit that billing: he was plain-spoken and non-menacing, with no discernible swagger.
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The organizations have spent more than $25 million on commercials that feature plain-spoken farmers and penny-pinching moms urging support of ballot measures that would prohibit municipalities from taxing food sales.
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Mr. Hinton, a plain-spoken economist, served as the United States ambassador to El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama, as well as Zaire and Pakistan, under four Republican presidents beginning in 1974.
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John Anderson, a former Republican congressman, left his party to run as a plain-spoken independent candidate for president in 1980, drawing an enthusiastic if transient following among liberals and college students.
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In terms of directly observing her subjects, Dodd paved the way for artists as distinct as Catherine Murphy, Sylvia Plimack-Mangold, and Josephine Halvorson: all of them make work that is plain spoken.
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Bashir's plain-spoken colloquialisms, backed by recitations from the Quran as justification, are almost as famous as the Arab tribal dances he routinely does with his cane aloft at rallies across the country.
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Batali and his co-author, Jim Webster, have chosen recipes with strong regional identities — crawfish pie, tortilla soup, Kentucky hot browns — and presented them in plain-spoken versions capable of honoring each tradition.
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So far, Sheriff Lombardo, a plain-spoken man whose persona contrasts sharply with his city of flashing billboards and jangling slot machines, has not been able to uncover a motive for the shooting.
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Plain-spoken but never plain, Jackson's collection confirms the arrival of a thrilling new voice in American poetry, one whose writing, on page after page, has the fullness and glow of a jubilee.
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Our primary guide is Paul Conroy, the plain-spoken British photographer who partnered with Colvin and was severely injured in the 2012 rocket attack in Syria that killed her and another reporter outright.
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" It is written in Louis C.K.'s plain-spoken, self-deprecating style and quotes John McCain, advocates centrism and argues that Mr. Trump is not a real conservative: "He is not one of you.
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He has presented himself as a cerebral type of Jimmy Stewart character, plain-spoken in manner but boasting degrees from Harvard and Oxford, discoursing happily about James Joyce and flaunting his proficiency in Norwegian.
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The first is "Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters" (1977), which follows this doomed poet's career from young motherhood to literary success to mental illness in letters that are harried, plain-spoken and profound.
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A woman who has never had the time or inclination for Pilates, who is plain-spoken and therefore might appeal to the country folks who live in the over 220 counties that sank Mr. O'Rourke.
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Trump loyalists perceive him to be "plain-spoken" even when he says things that are plainly untrue, or that would sound outrageous if uttered by someone not afforded the same "let Trump be Trump" indulgence.
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For Mr. Tan, the big names mattered less than the Midwestern sensibilities: "There is a piece of this that really resonates with us, around being plain-spoken and investing in what you understand," he said.
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From this we learn three things: Even in his youth, Al was plain-spoken and blunt; he's a veteran at hustling contraband; and he's long-since figured out the system and his role in it.
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For choila, a plain-spoken Newari snack, chicken thigh is rubbed with ginger, garlic and chiles and brought close to burning over open flame, then left to rest until smoke has sought out every pore.
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The political elite had written off his chances, but ordinary Americans warmed to the direct and plain-spoken approach he took — conveyed in speeches in hundreds of towns from the back of the Ferdinand Magellan.
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Mr. Grassley's thorny predicament was made clear as he was repeatedly forced to shift from his usual plain-spoken, Iowa farmer demeanor to a more lecturing tone, offering intricate explanations of process and precedents in Washington.
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Charismatic and soulful, and with an emotional force that could transfix voters, Mr. Clinton was among the most gifted of modern presidents at reading an audience and making points in a plain-spoken yet artful way.
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A bluff, plain-spoken man popular with the white electorate and a jocular off-the-record drinking companion of journalists, Mr. Botha at times showed a moderate streak rarely found among his hard-line party fellows.
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After he had written enough material for a few columns, he wondered if his plain-spoken prose would be enough to help anyone back home understand what it was to be contaminated with so much death.
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Enter "Tell Me How You Really Feel," the highly anticipated sophomore album from Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett, whose plain-spoken yet anthemic rock songs earned her a Grammy nomination for best new artist in 2016.
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Nicknamed the Gentle Giant (even though his height of 6 feet 1 inch may not have quite warranted it), Mr. Williams was adept at writing and recording plain-spoken material extolling the virtues of romantic commitment.
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Lawmakers had been reluctant to criticize Joyce, a plain-spoken small-town accountant turned politician, but came under pressure following revelations that the former press secretary was given two highly paid jobs after leaving his office.
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Still, Mr. Yang's plain-spoken answers — he directly said the government should pay to help Americans move out of places impacted by climate change — cut through on a stage filled with political hemming, hawing and hedging.
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Cryan, who took charge of the bank six months ago, was initially praised for his plain-spoken assessment and pragmatic approach to the bank's challenges but investors on Thursday showed signs their patience was beginning to thin.
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While Berryman and Jackson understood the project of writing sobriety in terms of deprivation — denying themselves the luxuries of plot and stylistic adornment, eschewing the momentous for the plain-spoken — Wallace wrote recovery with an exuberant excess.
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Clydie King, whose peppery but plain-spoken backing vocals helped define hits like the Rolling Stones' "Tumbling Dice," Linda Ronstadt's "You're No Good" and — despite her reservations about it — Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama," died on Jan.
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Perhaps, then, this is what Silverman hopes to reveal with I Love You, America—that plain-spoken sincerity from people across our colorful and complicated country can resonate beyond the humor, a kind of antidote for uneasy times.
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In his communication, like Reagan, Trump favors a plain-spoken and direct twitter-like style that fits the milieu of the times; and while Reagan's preferred tool was the public speech, Trump's is famously — or infamously — the tweet.
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Mr. Cohen, a longtime lawyer for Mr. Trump — and loyal confidant — described in plain-spoken language how Mr. Trump worked with him to cover up a potential sex scandal that Mr. Trump feared would endanger his rising candidacy.
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I just crave less "that," which I'm hearing from Democrats and Republicans alike and from people with extensive education and great vanity about their erudition as well as people who hold fast to a more plain-spoken identity.
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" Mustachioed and plain-spoken, Mr. Boardman was "as imposing as a grizzly bear," Allan Rutter, a former federal railroad administrator, said in a prepared statement, "but his spirit was Phil Harris in Disney's 'Jungle Book': warm, winsome, cheerful.
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While plain-spoken populist Doug Ford looked set to lead the PCs to victory in Ontario when the campaign began nearly three weeks ago, momentum in the fight to unseat Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne has shifted to the left.
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"The Nickel Boys," his follow-up to that wildly successful novel, adopts a more plain-spoken, traditional style to tell a story based on a real-life reform school where more than 100 children died between 1913 and 1960.
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Ms. Nevins, 78, stands out for her track record — she has overseen more than 1,000 documentaries over four decades, personally winning 31 Emmys in the process — but she also is that rarest of Hollywood creatures: a plain-spoken executive.
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But she cites plain-spoken Williams Carlos Williams (he of the recent spate of "This Is Just to Say" memes) as perhaps her foremost influence, and she fully exploits the same dizzying possibilities of spare lyricism and short, broken lines.
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Jim Karygiannis, Toronto city councillor, former member of parliament, and all-around plain-spoken guy, told the tabloid on Tuesday that the Trudeau government should investigate ties between Beyoncé—and her Super Bowl backup dancers—and the Black Panther Party.
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But since the Halloween attack in Lower Manhattan, at press briefings about the attack and in meetings with officers, Mr. O'Neill has displayed a plain-spoken persona that allies and analysts said has served the department, and the city, well.
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Sprawling over four hours and screening in two parts, Patrick Wang's "A Bread Factory" has an immense cast, a deliberate pace and thematic ambition to spare — but it also has a ground-level, plain-spoken modesty that renders it hypnotic.
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For every perfect, plain-spoken sentence ("It is on that couch where Bob feels safest, almost embraced") there are dozens of linguistic traffic jams where you can almost hear the words honking at each other to get out of the way.
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The combination of plain-spoken, honest lyrics and unpretentious rock that distinguished the record — Ms. Phair's debut — has recently resurfaced in pop music through a new generation of female bandleaders, including Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz, this show's opening act.bowerypresents.
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Ms. Davis is his wife, Rose, a plain-spoken foil to her husband's grandiloquence — and the one left to smooth over the damage he does to his relationships, and to himself, through a rigidity he sees as an assertion of dignity.
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WASHINGTON — It was a blunt, plain-spoken set of senators who gathered last Monday at the Washington home of Senator Heidi Heitkamp, Democrat of North Dakota, dining on Chinese food as they vented frustration about the missteps of the Democratic Party.
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White nationalist bloodied in protest Mattis, known as a plain-spoken leader well-liked by his Marines, was later promoted to run US Central Command in 2010 -- a post that gave him command responsibility for all US forces in the Middle East.
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" An AP analysis for Sunday papers, by Jonathan Lemire, captures the zeitgeist: "Faced with ... his gravest international crisis yet, ... Trump responded precisely as his some of supporters hoped and his critics long feared — with plain-spoken bluster, spontaneity and norm-breaking risk.
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"In a Black Out," the second single, is more nuanced both musically and emotionally, with a steady shimmer of fingerpicked acoustic guitar, a raft of lyrics about loss and reminiscence, and a plain-spoken drum beat that only emerges about two minutes in.
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It is a shift underlined half way through the Brixton concert, when the Pixies' new bass player Paz Lenchantin steps up to the mic and sings "All I Think About Now", a song she wrote with Thompson, a plain-spoken tribute to Deal.
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On the edge of the cobblestoned tourist area, with its ornate Gothic Revival-style churches and Queen Anne houses, the museum's plain-spoken modernism comes across as almost whisperingly defiant, a turning of the page, promising a deliverance from history, modernism's originating goal.
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Mr. Campbell's plain-spoken and lucid libretto, smoothly conveyed through Leonard Foglia's direction, touches not only on public harassment, but also blackmail, conversion therapy, discrimination and — admirably — the shady background of the Stonewall Inn, an unsanitary, Mafia-run bar that thrived on bribery.
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John B. Anderson, a former Republican congressman from Illinois who bolted his party to run as a plain-spoken independent candidate for president in 1980, drawing an enthusiastic if transient following among liberals and college students, died on Sunday night in Washington.
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In some ways his plain-spoken warnings mirror those of Anthony Fauci, the 79-year-old NIH infectious disease expert who's become a mainstay at congressional and White House task force briefings even as he contradicts the president's reassurances or optimistic timelines.
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Mattis is respected by both Democrats and Republicans for his years of service, and his plain-spoken, tough-guy style seems tailor-made to attract Trump—he got in a little bit of trouble for saying it was "fun to shoot some people" in 2005.
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Mr Scholz's traits are those typically associated with its burghers: pragmatic, plain-spoken ("I'm liberal, but not stupid" he once said on law and order) and Protestant (no alcohol was served at his leaving party at Hamburg's city hall, it being a work day).
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Its plain-spoken title makes Christopher S. Wood's new book, A History of Art History, sound pretty dry — solo per gli addetti ai lavori, as the Italians say: of interest to specialists only, or maybe even just to subspecialists.
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After the Great Fire of 1835 destroyed much of the commercial center of the city, it was rebuilt quickly and well by a commission run by the no-nonsense former mayor Stephen Allen, a Revolutionary War orphan turned rich sailmaker turned plain-spoken civic leader.
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"I am talking about screening immigrants, I am talking about building pipelines, I am talking about making sure Canadians have jobs, so yeah, some of the ideas and language are the same," said Leitch, an energetic and plain-spoken former labor and women's affairs minister.
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But Uchis' music is about much more than setting a mood or starting a party (though it's capable of doing both): Underneath the reverb and nostalgic arrangements, she sings acerbic lyrics that recall the plain-spoken melancholy of Amy Winehouse and Lana Del Rey.
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Much of the power of Mr. Delgado and Mr. McGovern's "photo-poetics," as they call it, is "a straight, plain-spoken, handmade quality, which is very much like the city itself," said Jim Sweeters, the gallery director for California State University, Northridge, which recently exhibited their work.
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His "the system is rigged" rhetoric made him the Republican's equal when it came to indignation, supporters note, while his rumpled asceticism (he is one of the poorest members of the Senate) and plain-spoken integrity made him a more convincing anti-establishment champion than Mrs Clinton.
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One of the remarkable things about this novel is how Mr. Whitehead found an elastic voice that accommodates both brute realism and fablelike allegory, the plain-spoken and the poetic — a voice that enables him to convey the historical horrors of slavery with raw, shocking power.
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In a presidency increasingly seen as isolated and arrogant — a view that has been reflected by Mr. Macron's precipitous drop in the polls — the plain-spoken Mr. Collomb was, by his own account and that of others, one of the few who spoke truth to power.
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In his plain-spoken way, Mr. Buffett, a longtime Democrat, acknowledged that the goal of capitalism was "to be more productive all the time, which means turning out the same number of goods with fewer people or churning out more goods, with the same number," he said.
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Courtly and plain-spoken, Mr. Boswell gained national attention in his first race for Congress, in 1996, when he and his Republican opponent, Michael Mahaffey, stuck to their pledge not to attack each other personally, though national party leaders tried to talk them out of it.
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For all his reputation as the most plain-spoken person to run the U.S. central bank in decades, if not ever, Powell may be reluctant in his remarks to fellow central bankers at this year's Kansas City Fed economic symposium to say much about where rates will go.
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He says outrageous things, he talks about grabbing women by the p*ssy, but he doesn't get nailed for it by a significant part of the electorate because he's got this persona of being plain spoken, not talking like a politician, saying what he thinks, not politically correct, etc.
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Even if he does not detail his policies, even if his language strikes them as harsh sometimes, his supporters thrill more to his plain-spoken slogans like "Make America Great Again" than to what they see as the cautious and poll-tested policy speeches of Mr. Ryan and other Washington Republicans.
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"Vida," created by Tanya Saracho, keeps its focus tight, on a few relationships: between the guarded Emma and the reckless Lyn; between both of these prodigal daughters and Eddy, plain-spoken and fiercely loyal to the bar and Vida's legacy; and between each of them and the idea of home.
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"As I'm traveling all over the country, people are coming up to me, they are responding to Donald Trump's broad-shouldered, plain-spoken leadership — that we can make America great again; we can be strong on the world stage; we can have an economy that works for every American," he said.
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A fourth-generation New Iberian, he was a southern Louisiana politician in the old mold: charismatic and irascible, given to country bromides and plain-spoken provocations, antagonistic to the regional press and civil-liberties groups, chummy with the political class, a friend to many and a bully to the rest.
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Duterte, a plain-spoken populist known for his colorful remarks and his campaign against illegal drugs in which thousands of people have died, described Obama as a "son of a b****" to reporters on Monday, a day ahead of the planned meeting in Laos, where South Asian leaders are meeting for annual summits.
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CreditCreditChang W. Lee/The New York Times BURLINGTON, Vt. — In this college town on the banks of Lake Champlain, Chief Brandon del Pozo has hired a plain-spoken social worker to oversee opioids policy and has begun mapping heroin deaths the way his former commanders in the New York Police Department track crime.
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And people close to both men say that more than anyone, Mr. Miller has grasped how to fuse the cadences of Mr. Trump's own plain-spoken language with something loftier, at times scribbling notes on a piece of paper pressed to the side of a car window as he jotted down the president's thoughts.
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Meticulously conceived as a three-movement cycle divided by mood and theme, each represented by a color — blue for sadness, depression and heartbreak; yellow for paranoia and illness, mental and physical; and gray for death — the album can be piercing in both its plain-spoken specificity and also in its wide-lens view of personal trauma and suffering.
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He could be described, not in hierarchical order, as a passionate lover of art, an eager collector, a published poet, a committed supporter of the underprivileged, a defender of social justice, a lover of trees, an ecologist, a fruit farmer, a maker of excellent preserves, and a plain-spoken, unpretentious man of ineffable, self-deprecating charm – among many other things.
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He is a plain-spoken Midwesterner who has long prided himself on his tough-mindedness with officials from both parties in Washington and a compulsive availability to voters back home, with a reputation for thrift perhaps best validated by his habit of cutting the engine on his car as he rolls it into the Senate garage, just to save on gas.
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As the storm has begun lashing the East Coast, Mr. Long, 43, a plain-spoken hurricane expert and emergency management veteran, has become the face of a high-stakes effort by Mr. Trump to cope with a potentially devastating natural disaster, and in the process, to repair the political damage from a much-criticized response to last year's hurricane season that raised questions about his administration's competence.
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Following a series of misunderstandings, and charmed by his old-school, gentlemanly ways, Chance comes to be known as Chauncey Gardiner, whose plain-spoken advice about the one thing he knows about (gardening) is mistaken for sage political advice that eventually leads him to becoming a frontrunner in the upcoming presidential election, even though his assertions like "all will be well in the garden" are nothing more than green-thumbed advice.
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As her audience grew — she now has 475,000 followers on Instagram and 34,500 on Twitter — Kaur earned a reputation not only for her photos and sketches but also for brief, plain-spoken poems tackling feminism, love, trauma and healing in short lines that can be as smooth as pop music ("love will hold you / love will call your name") or as jagged as rusty metal ("the hurt / the loss / the pain / the breaking").
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Some Democrats are becoming increasingly convinced that the plain-spoken Scranton, Pa., native — decidedly not a fresh face for the party after serving eight years as vice president — nonetheless is the one to take on President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE in the next election.
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President Harry S Truman&aposs surprise victory in the 1948 presidential election was largely credited to his decision to embark on an epic four month whistle-stop campaign tour — taking his plain-spoken style to towns across the US. The train was taken out of retirement by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, who on his Heartlands tour consciously mimicked Truman, delivering speeches to supporters in packed train stations from the back of the car.
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WASHINGTON — James B. Comey, the recently fired F.B.I. director, said Thursday in an extraordinary Senate hearing that he believed President Trump had tried to derail an investigation into his national security adviser, and accused the president of lying and defaming him and the F.B.I. Mr. Comey, no longer constrained by the formalities of a government job, offered a blunt, plain-spoken assessment of a president whose conversations unnerved him from the day they met, weeks before Mr. Trump took office.
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It features taut guest verses from YG and Offset, but 2 Chainz bests them with plain-spoken charm: "Me and momma used to trap out the same houseUsed to eat and go to sleep on the same couchMe and momma got busted at the same timeWent to court and told judge the damn same lies" JON CARAMANICA "Worth It" starts out like it might be restful and languid: a little guitar picking, some wordless sustained singing, and Haley Heynderickx — a songwriter from Portland, Ore.
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