Concerned with practical matters.
Not fanciful or imaginative.
1To be or not to be; that is the actual matter-of-fact question.
2So the young Earl was able to say this in matter-of-fact tones.
3In the pulpit he drives forward in the same earnest, matter-of-fact style.
4Such was the matter-of-fact manner in which the portentous news was announced.
5Yet he replied in a perfectly matter-of-fact tone, without the slightest hesitation.
6Jyn noticed he was sweating despite the cold; despite his matter-of-fact tone.
7I remember that very well, Breivik said in an unemotional, matter-of-fact tone.
8To-day is matter-of-fact in dress and design; mediaevalism was fanciful, picturesque, romantic.
9The words were calm, matter-of-fact, but they sent a chill through Judd.
10It seems a fair rendering of the matter-of-fact logic of the analysis.
11Asked about that electrifying moment, Craig was both enigmatic and pleasingly matter-of-fact.
12Nevertheless there was something disagreeable in the matter-of-fact gravity of his jest.
13This astonishing offer was made in a matter-of-fact tone, significant in itself.
14Women are so desperately matter-of-fact; it comes out even in their love-talk.'
15She is a musical conversationalist, whose matter-of-fact delivery is her great allure.
16She announced her errand at once in a straightforward and matter-of-fact manner.