Word: downrightness
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...building in those circumstances was downright saddening...
Schedrin's lazy, impotent score is loutish when it is not downright sullen. The finale-in which the degenerate playwright Quilty scrambles around his mansion in a drugged stupor, stopping to pound out a few chords on his piano before Humbert Humbert (Per-Arne Wahlgren) shoots him-is a scene worthy of Shostakovich in his manic, trumpets-and-snare-drums mode, but all Schedrin can muster is forced-march noodlings. As for the vulgar libretto, Schedrin wrote it himself but neglected to secure rights from the Nabokov estate. The copyright problems were eventually sorted out with the stipulation that...
...Experts are reacting cautiously, and some are being downright impolite. Says Peter Green, a University of Texas classicist and the author of an acclaimed biography of Alexander: ``It's the biggest piece of rubbish I've heard in years...
...capital-gains tax cut, the business-depreciation tax cut and the "middle class" tax cut that would apply to incomes up to $200,000 a year. This is supposed to be a damning critique. The implication is that class warfare is a terribly old-fashioned or impolite or downright un-American thing to engage in. Class warfare: it sounds Marxist at worst, European at best...
Legends of the Fall teaches us an important lesson: do not impose a mythically resonant name on a child. The responsibility is likely to make him surly, if not downright bloodthirsty. And his tormented thrashings are likely to bring misery, if not downright death, to all who--mysteriously--love...