Word: downrightness
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...Will that make any goddam sense?" And just as important, he--and his counterparts at The Daily Show, South Park and Late Night with Conan O'Brien--gradually came back from comedy's self-imposed mourning period to show that topical, cutting satire wasn't just appropriate; it was downright American...
...match for the U.S., not to mention the rest of the schussing world. The Austrians have dominated skiing in recent years, whereas the last American man to win an Olympic Alpine gold was Tommy Moe in 1994. In general, U.S. downhillers have made the nation's soccer players look downright Brazilian...
After the “Prologue,” the soundtrack ranges from soaring (“Harry’s Wondrous World”) to frenzied (“Hedwig’s Theme”) to downright creepy (“Christmas at Hogwarts”). Throughout, though, Williams maintains an air of magic befitting a Potter tale. There are chimes and bells aplenty to keep things mysterious—even the full-blown orchestral passages have a certain otherworldly feeling about them...
...Catamounts were downright lethal on the man-advantage, capitalizing on four of their seven chances in the game...
...officials had ringed nuclear power plants with armed roadblocks and West Coast commuters had begun detouring around some bridges, the latest round of terrorist-attack warnings--from Washington's vague bulletin to California's detailed advisory--left many people feeling quite the opposite: confused, afraid and in some cases downright angry. "We're drinking all the coffee we can," Tela Mange, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said with a large dose of black humor. "How alert...