She had little patience for the gently constructive language of a writing workshop, and could be brusque and disparaging.

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The director of BBC Cymru Wales has described talks on the royalties row between the BBC and Welsh language musicians as "constructive".

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And I think the body language reflects the fact that they had a constructive meeting.

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