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 Translation for 'matter of factly' from English to French
prosaïquement {adv}matter-of-factly
Partial Matches
question {f} de tempsmatter of time
urgence {f} [cas urgent]matter of urgency
état {m} de faitmatter of fact
question {f} de surviematter of survival
prosaïque {adj} [style]matter-of-fact
sujet {m} d'importancematter of importance
fond {m} du problèmecrux of the matter
fond {m} du problèmeheart of the matter
affaire {f} de prime importancematter of utmost importance
en priorité {adv}as a matter of priority
en urgence {adv}as a matter of urgency
en fait {adv}as a matter of fact
l'essentiel {m}the crux of the matter
d'urgence {adv}as a matter of urgency
en effet {adv}as a matter of fact
systématiquement {adv}as a matter of course
systématiquement {adv}as a matter of routine
Question d'habitude !It's a matter of habit!
C'est une question de point de vue.That is a matter of opinion.
d'extrême urgence {adv}as a matter of great urgency
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Usage Examples English
  • The film, directed by the reputed Štefan Uher, made the women at its center stage stand for humankind as matter-of-factly as much of Central European filmmaking had been portraying men's worlds, the quiet turnaround never even became a talking point.
  • The Edmonton Journal described Christmas Carp as, "Boldly illustrated and matter-of-factly told...
  • In their autobiographical writings from the early 17th century, both mystic Hayyim Vital and rabbi Leon of Modena claim matter-of-factly to have asked a dream question.
  • He described how Pitera matter-of-factly murdered Gangi's girlfriend Phyllis Burdi while she was passed out in bed after sharing cocaine and sex with Gangi.
  • Upon retiring from coaching after the 1962 season, Guepe said matter-of-factly and without bitterness: "There is no way you can be Harvard Monday through Friday and try to be Alabama on Saturday."

  • He speaks very matter-of-factly and personally to the reader, as though they were sitting in front of him at his dinner table or outside in his village.
  • Keith Phipps of "The Dissolve" wrote that the film's cult following comes from how matter-of-factly it treats its weird premise.
  • Gaitskill's fiction is typically about female characters dealing with their own inner conflicts, and her subject matter matter-of-factly includes many "taboo" subjects such as prostitution, addiction, and sado-masochism.
  • The year 2333 BC and the related myth are sometimes presented matter-of-factly as "history" rather than "mythology" in Korea.
  • "The Monthly Film Bulletin" observed: "Not since "Peeping Tom" has a film aroused such an outcry about nastiness and gratuitous violence as this one … the tone of the film is oddly muted, with torture and death in plenty, but viewed matter-of-factly and without stress … Throughout the whole film there is a vivid sense of a time out of joint, which comes as much from the stray groups of soldiers who skirmish against unseen attackers in the woods or hang wearily about by the wayside waiting for battle to commence, as from the bloody crimes committed in the name of religion by Matthew Hopkins".

  • She reports this to sympathetic local policeman Steve Smith, who replies matter-of-factly that this is not the first time that Atkins has been accused of a sexual offense.
  • Before graduation Lingnan University students protested how students had no say in any university affairs, and how the Chief Executive of Hong Kong had access and power so matter-of-factly.
  • Several hours later, they are notified almost matter-of-factly that there has been a mix-up, and that it was some other Jonathan Feldman who has been killed.
  • At one point, the leader of the investigating team examines the poker hand held by one of the deceased and comments matter-of-factly, "Aces and eights".
  • Journalist Jay Maeder wrote that "The newspapers were regularly full of pictures of Shipwreck Kelly, matter-of-factly brushing his teeth and shaving his face, hundreds of feet in the air."

  • Smith-Dorrien later claimed in his memoirs that French had received him "pleasantly", but his diary at the time simply records matter-of-factly that he "motored into to Le Cateau and saw the Commander-in-Chief" which may be suspiciously brief in contrast to the diary's normally detailed description of other events.
  • John matter-of-factly recounts killing the family but rejects comparisons between himself and the gunman, whom he calls insane, and that John tells the gunman he was at the wrong place at the wrong time when Lonnie started harassing him for information.
  • As a public speaker she was described as dry, and not particularly engaging, but she nevertheless kept her audience's attention with her matter-of-factly, well-reasoned arguments.
  • Before that, at the capture of Gallipoli from the Ottoman Turks, the captain-general was shot down on his poop deck as the battle was about to commence; Malipiero modestly and matter-of-factly recounts that he spread a sheet over the captain's body and put it about that the captain was merely severely wounded.
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