Feit said this matter-of-factly in order to answer the question that would most certainly come to my mind within a few sentences of our discussion.

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The songs she was writing and storing along the way, some hard-edged, some bluntly comical, prove as matter-of-factly direct and daring in today's terms as Loretta Lynn's were in the 1960s.

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These solar lanterns, he specified matter-of-factly, were being distributed to women in the villages.

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Early on, a very dear friend told me very matter-of-factly to treat this cancer as a pain-in-the-ass inconvenience.

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"That she would keep going after what she believed in, and help her father live his life, " she responds matter-of-factly.

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When pressed to say whether more quantitative easing would have the desired effect, the incoming governor said, matter-of-factly, that Bank of Canada research had concluded the policy was having diminishing returns, especially in the US. He added this was "not surprising".

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In his penetrating new book "The History of Future Cities, " author Daniel Brook matter-of-factly declares Dubai as the center of the world.

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Another officer, Aaron Blue, testified later that Holmes matter-of-factly told him, without prompting, about the complex web of explosives that authorities would later find in his Aurora apartment.

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