Word: downright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soviet stubbornness was sometimes downright belligerent. At a meeting in mid-June, Kvitsinsky delivered a harsh lecture in which he warned that any agreement other than the one the Soviets had proposed would be "unacceptable." He used the word over and over, until Nitze bridled. There was plenty in the Soviet proposal that the U.S. too could brand unacceptable, Nitze responded coldly. "Fine. Why don't you tell us what's unacceptable to you?" Kvitsinsky asked. "Because," Nitze replied, "I prefer to talk about objective realities and inequalities. It's not profitable to exchange charges of unacceptability...
Trio's imitations are also very spare and redundant lyrically. The lyrics are not just simple; they are also unimaginative. The imitations might have worked a little better if the lyrics had been original or inventive; instead the lines are contrived at best (e.g., "Drei Mann in doppelbett") and downright cliches at worst ("And then you call/and I feel like I am floating/I feel my batteries reloading.") Basically, this group has so little to say that all of their songs turn into uninteresting love songs...
...comes off the mountains." They mean spiritual, natural, ancestral energy, not the kind that could come off the high-tech Machu Picchu on the hill. In Los Alamos, the holistic weapons careerists in the cafeteria choose beansprouts and yogurt and reject actual nuclear war as theoretically implausible. It is downright rude in Los Alamos for an outsider-or even an insider-to raise questions concerning war or peace. The first causes moral qualm, the second unemployment...
...chair--is agonizingly long. The strangling is exhausting for both involved and Rossman's face turns hideously red in his futile struggle. By prolonging their theatrical duel and a later bludgeoning, director Beth Schachter reminds the audience that death really isn't that funny and murder is downright terrifying to witness or commit...
...candidate, who said he is trying to smile more, appeared downright jubilant at the parade, where he was followed by about 30 supporters, who alternately chanted. "Gimme that ole rainbow spirit"--a reference to the King campaign's description of its voting coalition--and "Mel King para alcalde [for mayor...