Word: straightforwardly
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Equating a modern political situation to an event in the Bible is deeply problematic; the narratives often lack the complexity and nuance that exist in the world we know. For Asnes, the current conflict can be summed up in two straightforward identities: Israelis = biblical Egyptians = bad, while Palestinians = biblical Israelites = good. This sort of rhetoric is offensive both to reality and to the reader’s intelligence...
...proposition the memo offers—to pay lower-wage countries to accept our pollution—is rather straightforward. Consider a machine that could magically suck grime and litter off the streets of Los Angeles and deposit it in Calcutta. Given that the Calcutta city government has more important things to worry about, it seems reasonable that it might value clean streets somewhat less than we do and be willing to take a little bit of grime for the right fee—a fee that could be immediately redirected into other, more pressing priorities, such as saving scores...
...always a foe of Kyoto. What's more, since the stock market started to stumble and California and possibly other states began facing power shortages, the Administration has been reluctant to do anything that would raise the price of fossil fuels and discourage their use. "I was straightforward with the European ambassadors in the way that the President has been straightforward on the Kyoto Protocol," Rice told TIME. "The notion that everybody was taken aback or surprised took us as a little...
Part of the magazine’s editorial mission is, according to Glenn, “to provide a forum in a more straightforward way that’s not done in the academy.” That forum is also on the Internet, at www.hermenaut.com, which gets somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 hits a week. The website features a new piece of Hermenaut-worthy material each week, along with selected articles from past issues and a discussion group...
...from there, Morrison says, “it’s all inevitable. It’s just straightforward.” You too can produce work like the Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved. Sigh...