Word: downrightness
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...article's condescending portraits of the town's residents--that is, of those on the wrong side of the issue--can be downright insulting. Speaking of one leading opponent of Lewiston's gay-rights ordinance, the reporter believes he speaks for all his readers: "You want Paul Madore to play the villain, to become the Jason Robards character made flesh." Does this sound like respect for the "gray areas" of morality...
Shock turned to downright fear in the second and third games, however...
Nearly two years and more than 200,000 deaths after the West began to assist the Bosnians, some are asking if the aid intended to save lives has only prolonged the war. "That is a downright deadly argument," retorts Wolfgang Berger of the Austrian Catholic charity Caritas, the largest private agency working in the former Yugoslavia. "You can't make peace by sacrificing still more civilians to hunger and destitution...
...hanging out. "Two in the morning and the party's still jumping cause my mama ain't home," Snoop raps. "So what do you want to do? I got a pocketful of rubbers and my homeboys do too." The lyrics are often unnecessarily graphic; at some points they're downright obscene. Snoop unabashedly expresses his adolescent urges, talking freely of having casual sex, smoking pot and even gunning down enemies...
...some of the recovered memories of familial childhood abuse sound fanciful, the recollections of satanic-ritual abuse are downright bizarre. These tales have proliferated since the publication in 1980 of Michelle Remembers, a book about a belatedly aware satanic-ritual victim. They describe a massive secret conspiracy to abuse children sexually in order to brainwash them into worshipping Satan. Victims recall being raped by their parents and then by members of a cult who drink blood and sacrifice fetuses. More often than not the abusers are pillars of their communities -- the mayor, police chief or school superintendent -- who come...