There were two guards outside the study door, the no-nonsense kind that look able to cut you apart and not raise a sweat.

Maybe it was the truck that did it; it was such a no-nonsense kind of vehicle.

Kerwin was big and dark and practical; a no-nonsense kind of man.

Ford liked him immediately-a no-nonsense kind of guy.

He was a stocky man with a no-nonsense kind of face.

"He's an honest, straightforward, no-nonsense kind of individual," Milbury said.

A former military police officer, she is no-nonsense and extremely kind.

He looks like a no-nonsense kind of guy, which is fine with me.

Hilda didn't know the interrogator, who was female, young, good-looking in a severely no-nonsense kind of way-probably new to the Bureau headquarters.

We can't accept sloppy or no-nonsense kind of errors.