Word: downrightness
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...would expect Church, the most spectacular practitioner of the 19th century sublime, to paint as downright a piece of patriotic kitsch as Our Banner in the Sky, where a gaunt tree and a streaky sunset compose themselves into a double image of Old Glory streaming from its pole...
...scramble of Democratic contenders, a different kind of questioner presided. Hoping to avoid the journalist's presumed superficiality, the league turned instead to specialists in such subjects as energy, foreign affairs, welfare and economics. They did not work out well. Some were too selfconscious, professorially superior and downright argumentative, rejecting a candidate's argument scornfully as if they were grading an undergraduate's exam paper...
...economies, it was hard-hit by the downturn in world trade and the quadrupling of oil prices in 1973. Nevertheless, while an 8.5 per cent rate of inflation and a 6.5 per cent rate of unemployment earned Schmidt sharp criticism from the right and the left, these figures were downright enviable compared to the double-digit inflation and widespread unemployment of other Western nations, including the United States. Replacing the disgraced Willy Brandt, Schmidt immediately clamped down on inflation: his monetary policies were so strict that the German construction industry almost went out of business for lack of credit. Schmidt...
...young man, Washington was noted for his stately manner (Virginia's new Governor Patrick Henry once praised his "solid information and sound judgment"), but he sometimes showed a lighter side with ladies. A "chatty, agreeable companion," one of them wrote to a friend, "he can be downright impudent sometimes, such impudence ... as you and I like." After a certain amount of impudence among notables like the Fairfaxes, his patrons, the young war veteran settled down with the widowed Martha Custis, then 27 (two children by her first marriage, none by her second). Said Washington: "With an agreeable consort...
...upper crust of Harvard musicians. "Unless you have a high-powered, hot center, the other stuff turns to garbage, like finger-painting," he says. But while Music 180, the advanced performance course Kirchner pioneered, remains relatively elite--last year it accepted only 29 of 100 applicants--the course seems downright plebeian alongside the Chamber Players...