| The characters' matter-of-factness in using a fake gem signals their resignation to the absence of the original and awareness that it can only be restored through a copy. |
| The statement is made with a common-sense matter-of-factness that resonates, even as part of me says it doesn't work that way. |
| But, of course, one exclaims, marvelling at the matter-of-factness of the statement. |
| All was done calmly, with perfect matter-of-factness. |
| It moves in the opposite direction to most post-war poetry and prose, which sought practicality, matter-of-factness, accessibility. |
| Here are matters of immense religious complexity being discussed with complete matter-of-factness by garage mechanics and shop hands. |
