Word: downrightness
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...those things. Why we continue to elect our peers to a great plum pudding of a council, only to hope that they are assigned to a committee that suits their strengths and interests, is beyond me. Throw this unexpected activism into the mix, and what you get is just downright frustrating. By all means, let the activists be active, but let them be elected by their constituents for that purpose. Dividing the UC according to the very different purposes that it seems eager to serve would give representatives an opportunity to do work in which they’re truly...
...know that it hasn't taken off like wildfire, and there are plenty of reasons. The biggest, I feel, is that digital TV from cable or satellite providers makes the recording process a bit complicated, and when you throw in new high-definition cable and satellite channels, it gets downright impossible. There are solutions to these frustrations on the way, but for now they stand as frustrations. It's no surprise, then, that Apple steered way clear of that mess...
Barbara Deneen, a 58-year-old public defender from St. Paul, Minn., gets downright intimidated when she goes to department stores looking for clothes. "They're all so teenybopperish," she says. "I end up buying a size 14 or a 16, and I'm not that big. It's embarrassing...
...said junior forward Kevin Du, who spearheaded Harvard’s attack with two goals and two assists. “And we brought it into tonight’s game.” Like a more aggressive forecheck, to be sure. An offense of lighting passes and downright hustle that only accelerated as the game wore on. And a defense that didn’t budge in front of senior goaltender John Daigneau down the stretch. “We were all a little nervous at the start, myself included,” said Daigneau, who watched Big Green...
...charismatic. Jigsaw’s explanation of his crimes fails to convince that the character’s intent—to prove the value of life by forcing people to make extremely painful sacrifices to avoid death—is noble. The rest of the acting is downright abominable, with virtually all victims in the house (“7th Heaven”’s Beverley Mitchell by far the worst) providing shallow and unrealistic performances that are not even good by horror flick standards. “Saw II” only superficially enhances the framework...