Word: downrightness
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...lure. I swore I wouldn't wear short skirts again: I have photos from the last age of miniskirts; I remember trying to bend and sit without total exposure, and I remember how cold it was. And yet, as I dragged out my winter clothes, my hems looked downright dowdy. I'm busy shortening them again. See what a betrayer is the fashion muse? I hate it. I love...
...first thing I noted, with some pleasure, was the engine performance. In the basic sedan, the 1.9-liter, 85-h.p. engine is both peppy and smooth. The 16-valve, 123-h.p. version of the same engine is downright exciting, particularly with a standard shift, and reportedly has a top speed of 120 m.p.h. The five-speed stick shift runs smoothly through the gears, as does the four-speed automatic. Saturn's suspension is supple enough so that at high speed on a bumpy road, the car was perfectly stable. Some critics have complained about excessive engine noise in the Saturn...
...HUEY Long, the former governor of Louisiana, were alive today, he would be seething. He would be fuming, livid and downright hip-hopping...
...deserve to be considered a ((wine)) connoisseur," writes Richard Nixon in Forbes FYI, a new supplement to the business magazine. The former President's article provides evidence that his modesty is well placed. The Sage of Saddle River proffers advice that wine lovers will recognize as misleading or downright wrong. Never chill a red wine, he decrees. In fact, most Beaujolais and some other fruity reds benefit from cool temperatures. Nixon says California's consistent climate renders vintage years virtually irrelevant as a guide to quality, a claim that would be disputed by the Napa and Sonoma vintners who suffered...
Mearsheimer knows his views will generate controversy. "Some people have called my ideas downright dangerous," he said last week. "I've tried to follow the logic of my analysis where it leads. I welcome the intellectual combat...