Word: downrightness
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Such signs of disharmony were surprising in a community sufficiently loyal to the guru to have enabled him to accumulate 90 Rolls-Royces and a private fleet of six aircraft. And it was downright shocking that the guru's allegations focused on the woman who had been his voice during a much publicized three-year silence that he undertook as a sign of spirituality. After he finally broke that silence last year, he warned his followers to guard against AIDS by using condoms and rubber gloves while engaging...
...other unofficial Harvard nickname, are even worse. The Cantabridgian, which means a person who lives in Cambridge--is downright silly. And I'm not sure I want to be known as one of the Johns--there are unfortunate implications of this age-old euphemism...
This past summer, though, has seen the dawn of utterly humorless, downright wimpy police approaches to enforcing the speed limit...
...conventional wisdom to serve as analysis. Since essay-writing appears to absolve him of the requirement to report, Henry can opine that "the most antagonistic major news organization was CBS, which had challenged Reagan's approach almost from its outset." He can make sweeping generalizations like: "Something ungiving, downright mean, seemed to have slipped loose from the darker corners of the nation's soul." Henry, to his credit, does take some risks. In an excellent analysis of Mario Cuomo's convention keynote address, for example, Henry dispenses with the rhetoric and the delivery and deals with the substance...
Luke Skywalker would be dazzled. Darth Vader would be downright intimidated. Right here on earth, and not in any distant galaxy, a new kind of war is escalating between technological stars IBM and AT&T. By the end of the century, the way that Americans get all sorts of information, from television programs to bank-account balances, could be changed. Between them, IBM and AT&T dominate the U.S. computer and telecommunications industries. Both have long itched to invade each other's markets, but not until now have they faced off with arsenals so fully loaded...