Word: downright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most notably a child's den, were dark and half-furnished. By the time dinner was served, my feet ached, the sycophants had shifted into high gear and the evening had acquired a deafeningly hollow ring leaving me with the impression that certain kinds of success make failure look downright edifying by contrast...
...summer school is hardly the raison d' ether of Harvard University, and some might argue that the two-month term is downright boring. But while this school's hottest session is not marked for its fast-paced student and administration activity, history shows that interesting moments, both provocative and lighthearted, do punctuate the long summer months in Cambridge...
Finley's speech did little to dispel this image, and at times it proved downright embarassing. Speaking of life in the Houses before they were coeducational, the classicist declared that today, by comparison...
...before the release of his latest and perhaps most successful picture, he had every reason to celebrate. Why, then, as he sits down to talk on this fresh spring day, his office deliciously perfumed by a bowl of giant, sinfully luscious strawberries, is he so gloomy, so unhappy, so downright miserable...
...Compared to proxy fights, takeover battles are downright gentlemanly," says a Wall Street veteran of many tussles. "This is where you get the real down and dirty, where the action can get bitter...