Word: downrightness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were downright "communistic." Dr. Robey illustrated his conclusions with quotations...
...ratio to his own guilt over slavery-and in many it was intense-the Southerner had to justify it to the world and to himself. Thanks to the planter's own angry guilt over wenching, the Southern white woman became the object of "downright gyneolatry." In Georgia in the 1830's this toast was proposed: "Woman!!! The centre and circumference, diameter and periphery, sine tangent and secant of all our affections!" Meanwhile an exacerbated sense of honor was turned in fury against all forms of criticism. Naturally many a newspaper editor was shot. Says Cash: "The South...
...could manage were a few inspired, but hardly audible tinkles, whereas in reality, when skillfully played, it can compete with the organ in fullness and richness of tone. The combination of the harp and organ, which I have never heard, should certainly be an unusual one, if not downright peculiar. It is hard to imagine the sustained, bellows quality of the organ blending with the string-like impact of a harp, but both of Mr. Grandjany's compositions utilize the two together; and hearing it should be a novel experience. Another bizarre combination of instruments is found in the Poulenc...
With him at Baltimore was Businessman William Loren Batt, the SKF (ball bearings) president who is a Stettinius deputy commissioner. Mr. Batt was no less downright with the scrapmen than New Dealer Henderson. Said he: "I see it as your patriotic duty to receive and sell as much scrap as you can and as rapidly and cheaply as possible. . . . The President has said that the nation would be intolerant of strikes that tie up defense business. I think he would add, were it not obvious, that the nation will be equally intolerant of careless, selfish management...
Perhaps I've got too much confidence in my fellow-citizens, but it seems to me that we don't need this kind of trash to wake us up to the desirability of living in a democracy. These songs are a downright insult to whatever intelligence and taste you or I may have. As music they're worthless, and as far as patriotism is concerned, I've heard more convincing stuff from Father Coughlin's radio sermons. So the next time one of us is tempted to throw away a nickel to hear God Bless America on a juke...