Point blank

Here I was brought into point blank collison with Rev. Dr. Cox, who made me the subject not only of bitter remark in the convention, but also of a long denunciatory letter published in the New York Evangelist and other American papers.

Again I had an opportunity of asking him a point blank question, and again my delicacy prevented me from forcing another man to confide in me.

I asked him point blank whether he was cheating on his wife.

There’s a neighbor named Brace Dunlap that’s been wanting to marry their Benny for three months, and at last they told him point blank and once for all, he COULDN’T; so he has soured on them, and they’re worried about it.