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Verma puts it more bluntly: start-ups fail more often than they succeed - in business and in politics.

Indeed, a key reason Powell pushed back so bluntly against expectations of such a cut at the press conference that day was to manage a committee riven by seemingly unbridgeable differences.

Lippmann himself described it more bluntly to a Deutsche Bank colleague who had seen the presentation and dubbed him “Chicken Little.”

“To put it bluntly,” writes Mr. Howard, “could our claims to greatness as a nation be sustained without a parallel greatness in our literature?”

When James notes that Ethan is “not the most emotionally forthcoming guy,” Sarah bluntly observes, “We have that in common.”