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How To Use no-nonsense In A Sentence

• Yet he's also studied jazz and Indian music and learnt to play the sarod, so his band achieves a curious rapprochement between world-jazz and heads-down, no-nonsense boogie.
• Patient Zero is a fast paced read, featuring Joe Ledger, a no-nonsense, no-hesitation fighter who is recruited for the Department of Military Science (DMS) to fight a new threat: a bio-terrorism agent that affects its victims in a way that makes them resemble zombies. Dusk Before the Dawn » 2009 » April
• Ida Willis is a no-nonsense, interfering housekeeper whose temperament is ill-suited to her clients.
• Gavrilova returned one day from a seminar in Nizhny Novgorod and decided on no-nonsense measures.
• But her no-nonsense approach has won her scores of admirers. Times, Sunday Times
• His range of no-nonsense products helps to do just that, with ethically sourced, cruelty-free, 100 per cent vegan ingredients. Times, Sunday Times
• The Fates are aligned in the form of the title outfit, led by a no-nonsense operative named Richardson, played by John Slattery in a crafty, deadpan take. Ann Hornaday reviews 'The Adjustment Bureau,' an ambitious, impressive thriller
• She saw herself as a direct, no-nonsense modern woman.
• She strikes me as a no-nonsense gal, the sort of English rose, raised on tea and hockey, who'd be calm in a crisis and know how to make splints out of ice lolly sticks.
• This book is somewhat dense, but if you like big slabs of no-nonsense political history, it is a feast.