Word: downrightness
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...only sour ingredient in this recipe are the lyrics, which become annoyingly self-righteous and downright repetitive at times. Happily, this problem is counterbalanced by the band's streetwise sense of humor...
This is now conventional wisdom, but in the early '60s it was crazy talk, downright revolutionary, particularly coming from a respected young Princeton graduate and Rome Prize winner. By the time his book was published in 1966, Venturi had actually built a house illustrating his alarming, thrilling ideas in a Philadelphia suburb, for the perfect client: his well-to-do socialist mother. As with much of his work since, he took the debased, muddled classical references residually present in most suburban houses and made them self- conscious, explicit, arch. The house was two decades ahead of its time. Imagine...
...contain some kind of power. He reeled off some of the sayings for me--"KISS ME...LOVE ME..." paused, and then said something under his breath about how this phone call could get him arrested. The language of love is indeed risky, and on candy it can be downright dangerous. Maybe it's time to update the slogans. Marshall tells me that the candies were invented sometime around World War I. If any of the sayings in the current series are left over from that era--well, that was a while ago. It might be time to add more contemporary...
...Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson, who attended the rally opposing Jeffries, said the CUNY professor is downright dangerous...
While most people will concede that things have not been going well for the Harvard men's basketball team, it is downright horrifying how poorly they are performing at home...