Voting is important, of course, but it is a blunt tool that we should use to favour politicians who listen.
The government of Argentina, the third largest country in the region, has also an anti-imperialist discourse that even if it is not as blunt as the one conveyed by the Venezuelan leader, is still there.
But its critics suggest it is ill-suited to the task because it is equipped only with blunt tools.
But most still reckon that it is at best a blunt instrument for fighting poverty.
It is increasingly seen as a blunt instrument for all but the most dangerous individuals.
Advertising can therefore be highly focussed, not the blunt instrument it is now.
It is not known whether the "blunt trauma" listed on Tamerlan Tsarnaev's death certificate relates to injuries from the car.
It is also true that these indicators are blunt instruments for describing often subtle attitudes.
All this will help blunt criticism of Japan in the United States, where it is often accused of free-loading on America's defence budget.
First ministers will have to decide whether putting such a blunt question to the people is politically desirable, then whether they can do it under the terms of the 1998 Act which implemented the Good Friday Agreement.
"It appears that this is a class effect, " New England Journal of Medicine Editor Jeffrey Drazen writes in a blunt editorial accompanying the three studies.
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