Word: downrightness
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...book also suffers from MA's--Moments of Absurdity--which one can imagine Davis hoped would somehow sound odd and appealing, but are more often disconcerting, if not downright frightening...
First-years can't even tell the difference between Lowell House and Lowell Lecture Hall. How do we expect them to find Vanserg? To send 800 disoriented first-years to Vanserg several times each week is downright cruel...
...BALKAN PEACE TALKS BEGAN last Wednesday near Dayton, Ohio, the mood in the Hope Hotel at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was downright frosty. When U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher stood and urged the Balkan leaders to shake hands, they did so in the most perfunctory manner imaginable: Croatia's Franjo Tudjman would not look Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic in the eye; Bosnia's Alija Izetbegovic refused to smile at Tudjman; Milosevic and Izetbegovic stared past each other. Even worse, after the press was dismissed, each man delivered a blunt statement accusing the others of human-rights abuses...
...steps of the U.S. Capitol and tried to explain to Congress why the White House wants to send up to 20,000 American soldiers to Bosnia. The Senators who listened had plenty of questions for the President's emissaries. Some of the queries were pointed, others acerbic, a few downright hostile. One, however, stood out for the succinctness with which it cut to the heart of the matter. It came from Oklahoma Republican Senator James Inhofe, who is known for making crisp and at times incendiary remarks (he once denounced the Environmental Protection Agency as a "gestapo bureaucracy...
...world still honors this middle-aged venture is evident, then. But among some Western nations that designed it, at least, the U.N. today often appears worse than dowdy. To them it looks oafish, overgrown, hypocritical, rife with ineptitude and possibly--as some overwrought Americans insist on seeing it--downright wicked. By this light, the creation of a half-century ago comports with reality now about as much as the cookie-cutter shapes of its East River edifices still evoke an idealized modernity. Budget-strapped, groping for a fresh start, the U.N. seems to slouch toward the millennium like a limping...