Word: downrightness
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...idea is scarcely spectacular or novel; it is as old as the combinations of Greek city-states, or the Hanseatic and other trading leagues of the late Middle Ages. However, after centuries of rampant nationalism, it has acquired new force. In some parts of the world, its potential is downright revolutionary...
...description; but the rather stylized battle he gave Titus and Miss Mandac was unimaginative and full of gaps in which nothing in particular happened. The abstract slides projected on a blackboard behind the performers added little or nothing, and the sunset that appeared behind Clorinda's dying speech was downright embarrassing...
...astonished that show busi ness could be so kind. "After what they did to my poor Ship of Fools," she said last week, "I was just crushed. I didn't expect anything like Noon Wine." Neither did anyone who had previously watched Stage 67; but expectations now are downright bullish...
Most people would agree that mankind, despite painful lapses, has brought civilization a long way from the primordial rule of tooth and claw. Barrington Moore Jr. is not at all that sanguine. His view of civilization, in fact, is downright gloomy. It is Moore's thesis in this difficult and challenging book that modern man has yet to repeal his jungle past...
Prestige on the Line. In past months Government spokesmen have denounced settlements of that size as being inflationary. But this time the Administration seemed downright pleased - as well it might, since it had placed its own prestige squarely on the line...