0 not showing feelings or emotion, especially in a situation when emotion would be expected:
1 not showing feelings or emotion, esp. in a situation when emotion would be expected:
The opening chapters are particularly noteworthy for their direct and matter-of-fact treatment of digital and audio principles.
It is written in a plain, matter-of-fact style and is interlaced with much humour and good-natured comment.
The narrative techniques, then, recover the unacceptable horror while commenting on the matter-of-fact way in which these events happen - and are passed by.
Behind that apparently matter-of-fact phrasing lies a traumatic personal history.
While this may appear interesting, a second look at the broader picture reveals a disappointingly matter-of-fact explanation.
This matter-of-fact volume is packed with information about all sorts of materials that prehistoric people have used to make things.
There is an emotional narrative here, despite the otherwise formal and matter-of-fact business of a university committee meeting.
This cold, matter-of-fact cohesion gives his tale an impenetrable sheen; surely it was this tone, successfully sustained, that made even the author's 'hair stand on end'.
