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: --
Look at it from a matter-of-fact point of view.
It is a pity that they cannot be infected with the matter-of-fact but mannerly attitude of the news readers.
Maryle-bone, approached the matter in a very matter-of-fact way.
I wish to deal with this question in a plain, matter-of-fact way.
Now it is a matter-of-fact phrase—people do not jib at it.
Whatever expression we use, and whether our chosen expression is pejorative or merely matter-of-fact, we are talking about between £250 million and £400 million.
Strauss 2004, for instance, invites us to consider "cultural standing" - group-relative norms that classify knowledge into local-cultural categories such as "controversial" or "matter-of-fact," categories that in turn mediate epistemic stance-taking.
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'.
