How to Use matter-of-fact in a Sentence

matter-of-fact

adjective

• The matter-of-fact Italian from Italy can't be stopped.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 3 Aug. 2023
• The story is all the more powerful for the matter-of-fact way Izgil tells it.
  — James Millward, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• As for his own past street life, Ray has a matter-of-fact attitude.
  — Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2023
• Her voice sounds every bit as cool and matter-of-fact as before.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
• The news release about the football coach’s two-week suspension was short and matter-of-fact.
  — Laura Wagner, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• One couple in the novel has a child on the autism spectrum, a minor plot point that’s handled in a very matter-of-fact way.
  — Shawna Seed, Dallas News, 7 July 2023
• The rest of her narrative is recounted in the same frank, matter-of-fact style as her paintings.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• Just a calm, matter-of-fact voice talking about science on the radio, online, on TV.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 14 Feb. 2024
• It was dealt with in a very matter-of-fact way, because that’s not what interested me.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2023
• Bheed shows the scenario at the border of a town in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and portrays it in a matter-of-fact manner.
  — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Today, some cultures are more matter-of-fact about sweat than others.
  — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023
• One thing that struck me, too, is in the documentary, one of the women just made this really matter-of-fact comment.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• MacPhee, who has brown-and-silver hair and a matter-of-fact disposition, had come to check on one of the trickiest parts of the installation: the hair.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• The adults sometimes become emotional but more shocking is the calm, matter-of-fact, narration from the children.
  — David Culver, CNN, 1 Oct. 2023
• On the phone, Morril is matter-of-fact about his devotion to writing and delivering jokes.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023
• The Full Monty is matter-of-fact about the injustices plaguing the community at its center.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
• This matter-of-fact handling of agonizing feelings is kind of Parden’s thing.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
• Because the recipe is so matter-of-fact, a martini is ripe for reinterpretation.
  — Mark Peikert, Town & Country, 4 Mar. 2023
• Written in a matter-of-fact manner and with a sharp eye for detail, Romero’s book acts as a genuine historical document.
  — Zackery Cuevas, PCMAG, 20 July 2023
• Passages that should be romantic are composed to be matter-of-fact, and on the whole, Ricki’s voice feels underdeveloped.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
• Lee’s style is plain and matter-of-fact, and the film’s spare and often muted visual language (cinematography is by Pawel Edelman) matches that mood.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2023
• Crowds of bankers file into Chan's hearings to witness the matter-of-fact judge, a rare woman in the role, force companies to deliver restructuring plans or risk sales of their assets.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2023
• Its matter-of-fact treatment of suicidal thoughts led to a flood of D.M.s from viewers with similar experiences.
  — Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• Mostly, the images are matter-of-fact; whereas color is often an event for William Eggleston, for Winogrand it’s taken for granted both as a useful tool and a fine finish.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• Similar to their pairing in Legion, the dynamic duo bubbles with an electric matter-of-fact quality that can't be beat.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Entries range from matter-of-fact narratives to poetry.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• Close Your Eyes soon settles into a very deliberate, matter-of-fact cadence, at first built around two-person dialogue scenes.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 May 2023
• The matter-of-fact reports failed to convey the brutality of rape, while the subjective reports were rich with personalized details, elicited from the victims.
  — cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
• Zwick writes in a spare, matter-of-fact style and gives balanced accounts of his interactions with the occasional spoiled star or over-bearing film executive.
  — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• Mia is so blunt about the subject of her parents’ relationship—so matter-of-fact, and so devoid of rancor—as to suggest that the Prevezer curse has been decisively routed.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024