Word: downrightness
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...terrific. The rhymes edge from laid back into boring at times, but his condescending tone turns “But you’s a scary dude / Believed by very few” from good to “Oh, shit!” And the beat is downright epic. DJ Toomp delivers the marching strings and gut-rumbling bass synth to produce the kind of track you’ve always wanted to hear play when you walk into rooms. Fitting that such a brazenly cinematic song should be used to sell a movie...
Valedictorians, All-American athletes, the occasional best-selling author...Harvard’s freshman class demographics are downright intimidating. Yet only one special frosh can boast having his own reality TV show, self-produced music videos, wedding filming service, and popstar-like fame on campus. Peter C. Shields Jr.’s ’09 latest music video, “Aphroditi,” which he produced, directed, and starred in, features the crooner in a number of suggestive scenes singing Greek and English lyrics that he penned himself. In the video, the often bare-chested...
...casual, even downright cheery, tone in which the commerce of WMD occurs epitomizes political philosopher Hannah Arendt’s notion of “the banality of evil...
...health care, especially since those payments could rise with increasing health care costs in the future. In the end, a demoralized Toussaint, who spent the last month campaigning vigorously in support of the contract, blamed the defeat Friday on a cabal of outside meddlers and internal enemies who peddled ?downright lies? to the membership...
...enlisted in the military (a few others have children who are officers). If Congressional hawks are getting their families out of military service because they can afford to provide their children with better options, then the war in Iraq starts to look not just ill-advised but downright unjust. Suddenly Bush and his cronies start to look like the pampered pansies, while anti-war liberals can claim to be representing the underclass. Second, liberals want to believe that the people who fight in unjust wars don’t have any other choice. If that’s true, then...