Word: downrightness
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...spent time in Florida, speaking on behalf of his brother Jeb, whose incumbency to the governor's mansion was under siege. Every one of those campaigns took home a victory Tuesday night. And while it's hard to measure precisely the influence the President had on voters, it's downright impossible to discount that influence completely...
Coca-Cola has never been short on marketing campaigns. From Santa Claus commercials to the giant Coke bottle looming above Times Square, the corporation has done everything imaginable to convince consumers that Coke is a wholesome, friendly, downright American institution, the “good guys” of beverages. CEO Douglas Daft and his marketing team hoped to perpetuate this image in June 2001 when they began their campaign to become the poster-child corporation of UNAIDS by promising HIV/AIDS treatment to its employees in Africa. Coke declared, “Coca-Cola is completely committed to the future...
...takes a pretty odd but inventive guy to turn talk of swizzle sticks and Dramamine into an exploration of society and theater. But Christopher Durang ’71 and his over-the top, witty and downright deranged plays manage just that and more. Whether creating brilliantly disgruntled or just delightfully dysfunctional characters, he invents situations that are at once rudely absurd and universally revealing...
...time when thousands of lives are sacrificed in war upon the altar of democracy and when the U.S. President is using it to enhance his position in the international community, the argument of necessity triumphing over ideology comes across as hollow, defensive and downright flawed. It is disappointing that Time published this example of American self-justification. TEO TZE YIN Singapore
...conversations between Tokhtakhounov and a woman believed to be Anissina's mother Irina Chernieva--a former Olympic figure skater who strenuously promoted Marina's career--were startling if not downright incriminating. In one, the Uzbek promised, "We are going to make your daughter an Olympic champion. Even if she falls, we will make sure she is No. 1." In another, a Frenchman called Chevalier (presumably a cohort) is heard assuring the Uzbek, "Even if the Canadians are 10 times better, the French with their vote have given them [the Russians] first place. You understand...