Word: downrightness
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...promises that such a thing exists, then that person is nothing but a con artist; he's out to deceive you. At such turning points in history, all sorts of people come forward in the political, economic and cultural arenas. Some are just a bit strange, while others are downright dangerous. It's important to know which kind you're dealing with. No one will announce that he is out to destroy society or that he is against the interests of the people; he will bare his chest and claim to be marching under the banner of revolution...
...just think it's unbelievable that people are so accepting of homosexuality here," Anderson says. "It's just downright deviant, promiscuous, life-threatening behavior. It's repulsive. It's a disease...It's just totally abnormal. It's not a natural activity...
Politics is often called the art of the possible. But Israel is rapidly transforming politics into the art of the improbable -- if not the downright ridiculous. Ever since the collapse of Israel's coalition government on March 15, Labor leader Shimon Peres has been scrambling to put together a new government without his party's nemesis, the conservative Likud bloc. Early last week Peres appeared to have sewn up 61 of the Knesset's 120 votes. But on Wednesday two Deputies of the religious party Agudat Yisrael backed out of a signed agreement, leaving Peres two votes short...
...because I desire pain. Even though I may have thought the same about rowers merely six months ago, this notion is downright stupid. Blood, blisters and soreness are no more fun for rowers than for members of the Society of Nerds and Geeks...
What's more, last month's crack in the highly overvalued Tokyo stock market makes the Japanese seem a little less superhuman. The even wilder overvaluation in Japanese real estate could one day make them look downright mortal, sending shocks around the world. And America's new goals for education by the year 2000, which the nation's Governors unveiled last week, aim in exactly the right competitive direction. The goals may seem fanciful -- one is to make American kids first in the world in math and science -- but are they that much more fanciful than the goal...