Word: downrightness
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...Zuben was a terror on the field, junior attackman Jim Bevilacqua was a downright nightmare for the befuddled. Yale defense as he added four goals to his bounty...
...discrimination that historically persecuted sexual, ethnic and religious minorities have faced for centuries. She writes of "being in the closet" as a Republican while here at Harvard, comparing the historically homosexual hiding place with her own reticence about her political beliefs. Such a comparison is disingenuous at best, downright offensive at worst. Homosexuals have been actively discriminated against from the Holocaust to the Red Scare, and I am not aware of any such movements to silence, haunt, terrorize, deny the rights of and oppress Republicans...
When Crimson reporters venture outside the walls of Harvard, a reader can never tell what will result. Sometimes the coverage is insightful and timely; sometimes it is random; and sometimes it is downright hilarious...
Things got downright bitchy when Princeton, in October 1986, launched its Scholars Program, which awarded $1,000 "research" scholarships to top students regardless of need. According to the minutes of a January 1987 Overlap meeting, "everyone agreed that this program has caused much unhappiness at all levels of the administration at other schools." Princeton denied that the program was an end run around the Overlap pact. A Dartmouth official called the denial an act of "sophistry." Yale's president, Benno Schmidt, wrote, "This looks like a blatant merit scholarship to me," prompting Princeton's president, William Bowen, to sniff during...
...times, Tisdale seems right on target. Her critique of "weeding," the practice of throwing away little-used books to conserve shelf space, is both moving and intuitive. Most often, though, Tisdale sounds downright mean-spirited. She tosses off jibes at roller-blading kids without a trace of irony or understanding while blasting electronic catalogs in what appear to be nostalgic reveries...