Word: downrightness
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Dartboard has been patient. We are confident that this week's downright balmy weather will pass eventually, and that despite the threat of global warming, the traditionally bleak New England winter we know and love will return sooner or later--with a vengeance, we hope. At the very least, it has to snow at some point...
Christian fundamentalists claim that changing from homosexual to heterosexual is possible through adherence to Christian principles. That idea is insidious at best and a downright lie at worst. Back in the mid-1970s, I could have been the poster boy for one of those "conversions" to heterosexuality ads. I claimed I had "changed," and even got married and fathered a son. But no matter how hard I prayed to change my sexual orientation, no matter how much I believed I could be "delivered" from the sin of homosexuality, I finally had to accept the inevitable. I came...
...hall with purple carpet and green chairs); its beauty makes it the perfect place to polish one's social graces. If one goes, one must be cautious. To fall asleep would just be embarrassing. To clap in between movements (hint: that's the wrong time) would be downright humiliating. This is what the program is for, so the audience can keep track and applaud at the appropriate times, just in case they don't have the piece memorized...
Both McCarthy and Stay saw considerable actionlast year, though neither was a Crimson regular.While they looked impressive at times, McCarthycould be downright imposing. When he threw aroundhis 6'3", 210-pound frame, however, the two werefrequently caught out of position and became aliability, evidenced by Stay's minus-4 rating andMcCarthy's awful minus...
...that composes the whole of Experiment Below. Six minutes into the album, Hovercraft demonstrates promising innovations and intricate, sudden and powerful changes in rhythm and volume. Even the lack of track closure initially appears to be interesting and unconventional. After another six minutes, these novelties become tiresome, predictable, and downright annoying. The listener becomes totally desensitized from the sudden climaxes, and the apparent randomness of the first track reveals itself as the single creative element of the album, which cycles itself in a timed repetition: there are approximately three minutes between each grinding climax...