Word: outright
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Practically every woman has one or more war stories located along the spectrum from harassment to molestation to outright assault. One illustration: On her bus home one evening, a woman I know smiled at a male passenger out of sheer friendliness. The man got off at her stop and immediately asked her to come to his place for coffee. She declined, but he continued to walk alongside her, down the dimly lit street, taunting: "Whattsa matter? You don't like Wops? Too good for 'em?" As they neared her house, she knew better than to enter...
...trapped, seeking to find artistic fulfillment by manipulating the men around her. In the few days that follow her return with Tesman from their honeymoon, Hedda gradually becomes twisted in her own plots, trapped by the circumstances that once made her powerful. The sickening build from complication to outright tragedy is quintessential Ibsen...
...turned out, Speakes simply had not been told the truth by Administration officials. Afterward he complained bitterly to senior White House aides in an interoffice memorandum. If he had known the facts, says Speakes, he could have kept the secret without telling an outright lie. "I could say, I'm sorry, I can't answer that question,' " he explains. "Or, 'I'll check on that.' " Says ABC Paris Bureau Chief Pierre Salinger, a former press secretary who was kept similarly in the dark about the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 by President Kennedy...
Artistically, First Affair isn't worth the time of day--the acting is horrid, the plot sappy, the filming glossy if not outright sleazy, Enough said. But beneath the veneer of Hollywood melodrama lies the perfect admissions office cover girl--Melissa Sue Anderson as Toby King. Putting aside for the moment the fact that King has an affair with her Expos teacher's husband, takes a bus home to Nebraska in the middle of the term, comes down with mono and skips numerous classes without having to drop out of school. King and her application to Harvard would have thrilled...
...titled On the Jews and Their Lies (1543) went so far as to advocate that their synagogues, schools and homes should be destroyed and their prayer books and Talmudic volumes taken away. Jews were to be relieved of their savings and put to work as agricultural laborers or expelled outright...