Word: straightforwardly
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...those facts are straightforward--but facts need context and interpretation to be meaningful. It's not clear whether younger women are more willing to try same-sex encounters because they're afraid of getting pregnant, because it's trendy or because boys their age can be so crude. ("At least another girl isn't always trying to push her penis into you," said one teenager, reacting to the study.) We simply don't know the answer, says William Mosher, lead author of the study. "That's the kind of thing you could look at with further surveys...
...center of Ragtime. You sense that with this work Doctorow is inviting us to regard his novels as a career-length meditation on more than a century of the American past, with its bloodshed and racial obsessions, its hallucinatory edges and its complicated freedoms. The March is a more straightforward book than Ragtime. You won't find scenes here quite like the ones in that book in which J.P. Morgan and Henry Ford meet to trade views on the supernatural or Sigmund Freud takes Carl Jung to Coney Island (something that, by the way, actually occurred). But if the feelings...
...chronicling of Lydia's struggles is rather straightforward, but it is only one element of the novel. At the end of each chapter, Goldberg drops in imagined conversations between soldiers on leave or on their way to war, passages from a QD Soda newsletter and letters Driscoll wrote in his old age that illuminate the unethical rise of his beverage empire. Additionally, she excerpts actual news stories of the day. Lastly, in the margins of each page are voices from the dead commenting on or clarifying plot points. For example, when, early in the book, Henry fails to appear...
Roberts, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, maintained his composure as he faced hours of questioning—sometimes friendly, sometimes hostile, and sometimes merely inquisitive—from the 18-member committee, but he also left some senators protesting that his answers were not entirely straightforward...
...calcium. Hospitals, clinics and even gyms are touting quick and easy scans that can measure the amount of calcium in your coronary arteries in minutes. But while calcium scores can be helpful, doctors caution that using them to predict who is at risk of heart disease isn't always straightforward...