Word: straight-forward
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...feeling is that we dealt with Mr. Stonecypher in the same straight-forward way we dealt with any applicant," Fitzsimmons says...
This American variation on the My Fair Lady story has less of the glamor, but more acute and straight-forward acknowledgements of class constrictions. Gloucester, Mass. is far away from Brackish's Harvard in sensibility if not in miles, and the Hogans don't see much possibility for mobility or escape. It's not clear why Brackish returned to Goucester if he had such grand ambitions, but he too seems resigned to a preordained role: "Gloucester-born, Gloucester-bred, in two or three days, Gloucester-dead," he declares wryly. The sense of place, of stillness and smallness, is reinforced...
...Clinton, despite his straight-forward approach to problems such as the deficit, glossed over other issues and retreated into vagueness, professors said...
...guitar-driven sound of this band, unlike that of groups like Sonic Youth, isn't filled with distortion and feedback. Songs like "Staples," "Taillights Fade," and "Velvet Roof' are straight-forward, accessible rock...
...Pedro (Colin Stokes) and his comrade-in-arms, Claudio (Mark Fish), inject a sinister tough into their otherwise straight-forward characters, rather complacently consigning a poor maiden to eternal shame. Don Pedro's brother, Don John (Ian Lithgow), on the other hand, is interpreted as a buffoon. He is a Peter Ustinov-style villain, bumbling and ineffectual. The comic actors take the Shakespearean "rude mechanical" to the limit. Dogberry and Verges (Tom Giordano) revel in the slapstick. So, too, do Borachio and Conrade--at times at the expense of the darker, more thoughtful side of the play...