Examples of baldly

• Praise was presented baldly 75% of the time but was itself used to tone down the negative effect of comments.

• Why, to put the question baldly, do these interpreters - or we - shudder with horror and blush with embarrassment at these moments?

• His answer, baldly stated, is that if they are made right they are helpful, but if they are made wrong they are misleading.

• We do not seem to need to assert baldly that reasonable pluralism is a fact simply because we believe it is a fact.

• A relatively small number of movements are prefaced by a brief formal outline, but such tables are sporadic and baldly presented.

• Gaskell, whose wit is justly famous for its delicacy, would not make the point so baldly; she makes it, rather, through patterns of repetitions and emphases.

• I say that baldly as a fact, not necessarily as a criticism.

• Stated baldly like that, it is not accurate.