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The art of saying it straight, then watching the room exhale or implode.
means A direct, unsoftened way of speaking that skips the cushioning and gets to the point.
from From blunt, a dull-edged blade — a word that by the 1300s described both knives and people lacking a fine point.
Edge ironyA blunt blade is dull; blunt speech rarely is.
Cultural variablePraised in Berlin, near-criminal in polite Tokyo.
Cousin wordFrankness is bluntness that bought flowers first.