I, too, am one of your ilk, and I know the pain, suffering, stress, frustration, and downright anger that comes from driving in this place. |
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I am fully aware that my reaction is exclusive, snotty and downright snobbish. |
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Restaurants so often let themselves down at the last by serving unimaginative or downright stodgy desserts. |
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Guilty of being vastly unoriginal, insipid, boring, and just downright horrible! |
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No other night of the year manages the unique combination of misery, discomfort, expense and sheer downright unpleasantness. |
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Other flies are downright lures, which look nothing like a natural but provoke a response when pulled fast past a feeding trout. |
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But now, if I forget my mobile at home, I feel downright nekkid until I get it back in my hot little hands. |
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They range from the downright common to the ultimate upper crust in Paul's eyes, and with every sketch the audience hugged itself with glee. |
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Most efforts seem to have been at best superficial, at worst downright non-existent. |
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Its lush harmonic arrangements conceal some vituperative and downright nasty lyrics, delivered in a deceptively deadpan manner. |
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The downright spooky supernatural aura enhances the staying power of this film in your mind. |
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Some of the questions were understandable, but others were downright spoony. |
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But if spraddle is a term which has never completely gone out of style, squinch is downright popular. |
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Clay had come to town with a challenge to Liston that was looked on as downright suicidal. |
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The Scottish experience in the past half-century has been a patchwork of success, spurned opportunities and downright failure. |
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Football chants are cruel, obscene, offensive, sometimes downright sick and often very funny. |
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To contact the Metropolitan Police is a frustrating experience of long delays, indifference, obstructiveness and even downright hostility. |
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Wanganui is that perfect balance of being hard case but not downright Carterton-level mongrel. |
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Like many human things, globalization can often be just downright unfair or carelessly vicious. |
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Lalita is played by the stunning Aishwarya Rai, who successfully conveys the character's combination of intelligence and downright stroppiness. |
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They want lively narrative, bold handling of intrepid if not downright heroic characters, and an unflinching recognition of our past militarism. |
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But what really brings it to life is its gallery of outlandish, oddball and downright terrifying characters and creatures. |
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That film was downright Hitchcockian in its dragging of an ordinary woman into extraordinary circumstances. |
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Or is he just downright hoity-toity, with that nose in the air and far-off stare? |
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The sword and the mail made him look downright medieval, like some chivalrous knight. |
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While chroma tends to be faint and fugitive in Bell's early sculptures, a selection of recent works at Jacobson Howard was downright colorful. |
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There's something downright self-indulgent, hedonistic, even sybaritic about this fine weather. |
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Or, you could argue that our language has become downright coarse, offensive and rude. |
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It was amazing how vital and witty and energetic and downright cocky he was. |
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Brighton has the shops and the crowds, but not the hassle of impolite, inconsiderate and downright ignorant London shoppers. |
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We called them downright funny, and we laughed all the way to the personnel office. |
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Notice how some clever perpetrators of downright rudeness can make you feel as though you are the impolite one. |
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They're so enormous, so stratospheric, so downright farcical that all I can offer in response is a kind of hollow laugh. |
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Although not illegal, charging double fares by breaking journeys into different segments to maximise profits on one route is downright immoral. |
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Many terms and words in the glossary are described inaccurately at their best and downright erroneously at their worst. |
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Much of the rest of the e-mail is rambling, incoherent, badly written, nonsensical, fanciful, and downright unbelievable. |
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Desperately enough, it seems, to do something not just silly or ill-advised but downright dumb and indefensibly wrong. |
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It treads a fine line between being a traditional boozer and a downright dirty pigsty. |
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And if in 1863 The Times was not alone in ingeminating peace, no other paper went so far as to assail the Poles with downright abuse. |
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And not a few of Le Va's recent drawings are downright epic in scale and symbolic reach. |
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As you can see, some of these command-line commands can get downright Byzantine when you're inputting a lot of parameters! |
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This detracts from official complicity or downright instigation of mob-violence. |
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In other words, the consensus has been downright confuted, over a nine-month period, by the course of events. |
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I get more intolerant and downright bored with this interminable, stomach-churning rubbish every year. |
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Lice aren't dangerous and they don't spread disease, but they are contagious and can just be downright annoying. |
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For a fourteen year old that is downright insulting and even an eight year old may have plenty to say on his or her own account. |
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The Tuta circuit looked downright sketchy, with dirt-strewn corners and sharp speed bumps on the straightaway into town. |
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Some of the songs were straight from the top of the genius pile, while others were just crass, crude and downright stupid. |
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If this is true, then people are just naturally dishonest and crooked and downright rotten. |
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A fisherman will likely consider the accommodations downright luxurious while a cruiser will find them a little short on privacy. |
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Others were frisky, some downright mischievous, but Cisco was solemnly content. |
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An hour later, Serena came out, in a tiny black mini-dress that was downright sexy, hugging her body curvaceously. |
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Really, it seems downright cussed of Paramount not to include a single goody. |
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He tackles a variety of styles, from his signature over-the-top look through chic, romantic, modern and funky, and on to downright conservative. |
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I find him, by and large, very funny, though he's always treads a fine line between being funnily offensive and being downright offensive. |
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Oh, heavens to Betsy, what a furor, what a to-do, what a downright brouhaha. |
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But as a 45-year-old who began serious powerlifting training at 41, she's a downright phenomenon. |
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The combination of incompetence and downright carelessness on the part of those charged with protecting our citizens is absolutely damnable. |
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Eventually it sounds downright lugubrious, a dead hand which ultimately presses the life out of these fragile creations. |
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A few were downright bloody-minded, seeing little difference between their call up and the press gangs of Britain's distant past. |
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She works in the kitchen, and sometimes she cleans the chamber pots in the house, which I would find downright ghastly and appalling. |
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It's downright sneaky of them to hang out there with their privates exposed. |
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The actor playing the crazed counselor is so downright deranged in his performance you feel dirty watching him. |
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There are no surprises and the maniacally manipulative musical score often gets downright grating. |
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The effervescent and downright bubbly host has evolved from just another flirtatious cable TV personality into a globe-trotting media mogul. |
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Most of your run of the mill idiocy falls into a middle category somewhere between frightfully dim to downright dense. |
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The poems ranged across these six sections vary from the lyrical to the elegiac to the downright silly. |
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The dishy trashing of the film by the reviewer is not only heartbreaking, it's downright offensive. |
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A simple chat with her could be downright frustrating when she didn't understand half of the euphemisms being used. |
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I came away feeling a combination of slack-jawed dumbfoundedness and downright anger. |
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But then, throughout his career he has mixed the personal with the abstract, the highbrow and the downright doolally. |
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Gamma and X-Rays above a particular dosage are downright harmful to unprotected organic tissue. |
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First, this is a repertoire book, but there are key parts of the repertoire that are drawish at best and a downright forced draw at worst. |
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Trucks pump out far too much pollution and the buses where I live are a downright disgrace. |
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His documents portrayed evidence of downright fraud, as well as real estate law violations. |
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Beyond that, there lurk the problems of a slender majority, vulnerable to prima donnas, by-elections and downright blackmailers. |
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It was downright bad marking that allowed Dermot Shields head past Larkin from six yards for the lead goal. |
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In view of above-mentioned I feel the recount was pure nonsense and downright contempt of our democracy. |
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One panel of figures alone gives cause for concern, if not downright alarm. |
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There are many obscure and dubious mathematical assertions, as well as downright errors. |
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In the North, there have been cases where the enthusiasm of activists has turned to downright intimidation of workers from other parties. |
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Is there any hint of extremism, intransigence, or just downright hostility in your attitude to certain brands? |
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I have worked with young Bulgarians throughout my six years in this country, and his attitude is a downright insult to them. |
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But there's a storm of angst brewing in the pit of my stomach and I'm not sure whether its frustration or downright sadness. |
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Even if I just knew I was going to say something completely bizarre or downright weird. |
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When did our leaders become so gauche, impolite, rude and downright insensitive? |
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But this one is just downright wrong in the total impression it tries to create. |
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When I interviewed him by telephone a few years ago, he sounded not simply shy or stroppy but downright unhappy. |
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I know that many in the tabloid media can be downright nasty and unpleasant, but I didn't think this would happen! |
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Most of all, the book felt extremely overwritten and her abstract prose style was downright tiresome. |
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As with most new developments, the effects are a mixture of the good, the not so good and the downright bad. |
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When we walked back out to the dock, the 35 degrees felt downright comfortable. |
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Members of our government were downright corrupt, crooked and utter hypocrites. |
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Some are necessary and some are not, some are proper and some are not, some are downright evil. |
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The massive cleanup in New Orleans includes some unpleasant, some might say downright disgusting, jobs. |
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I nodded reluctantly, despite being thoroughly annoyed and downright insulted at such an accusation. |
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Besides being extremely affected by his ex-wife, he was downright angry at his female companion. |
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Also included are various advertisements that were common to drive-in theaters, and some of these are downright hilarious. |
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Within the black community, dropping out of public school was considered downright treasonous. |
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While the 4,000 acres of high desert and hoodoos are hospitable to visitors in the fall and winter, spring and summer can be downright nasty. |
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Yet Edwards didn't lose his cool, kept to his talking points, and was occasionally downright charming. |
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Indeed, it was aberrant of him to accept the job and downright silly of the government to appoint him. |
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Where it is not downright unpleasant, the situation lapses into the absurd. |
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By our very nature, we are selfish, jealous, envious, stricken with strife, and sometimes downright rebellious. |
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Instead we shall be presented once more with weasel words, evasions and probably downright lies from the government's legal apologist. |
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Once the other locals notice you are approachable and downright friendly fellows, they too may step up to help get you drunk. |
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We're addled by Arizona's talent, impressed by the Wildcats' intensity, and downright dipsy-doodled by their depth. |
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Musically this piece exists to excite gasps of admiration, if not downright adulation from the audience. |
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And some were just downright practical with calculators, measuring tapes and bottles of water. |
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Not only were some of them plain uncomfortable, but a few were just downright embarrassing! |
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That guarded optimism has been replaced by downright pessimism because the bottom of the decline is still not in sight. |
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Facts were fabricated from whole cloth by wild rumor and fueled by crowd hysteria, fear, desperation and downright anger. |
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He handled some predictably hostile and downright rude remarks with very solid rebuttals and a refusal to take insults. |
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It was unfortunate that the Bulgarian summer this year was temperamental at best, and downright terrible at worst. |
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I believe that much of the thinking promoted by the liberal left is lazy at best and downright irresponsible at worst. |
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But his childish repetition of gritty details makes A Million Little Pieces not only tedious, but downright farcical in spots. |
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I measured the response time at these settings since the image is downright unusable at the maximum matrix brightness. |
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Roy Jones looked downright vicious at the weigh-in, roaring his trash talk with tremendous intensity and animation. |
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This is downright impossible unless you reach for the treasury of belles-lettres, for its rich variety of expression. |
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My perception is that many people feel that the adoption process in this country is ridiculously ponderous if not downright laughable. |
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When they stood next to each other at a media event, Ruiz made Jones look downright Lilliputian. |
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Going to see Cirque du Soleil is downright artsy and cultural, and it's fun and exciting. |
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Somehow she imbued him with a confidence and assurance that is downright remarkable. |
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Arrogant in their opinions and assumptions, they can be blunt, outspoken and downright tactless. |
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The gossip is usually more salacious, the stories downright dirtier and they tend to spend more money on wine. |
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The script, though comical in areas, was much too sentimental and downright sappy for me to voluntarily accept. |
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Worse yet, the sushi and sashimi that Tuesday night were mediocre, and a few items were downright terrible. |
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How many taunts, threats or downright abusive remarks have been reluctantly swallowed with a fatalistic shrug? |
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In plain English, smoking looks bad, smells bad, and is just downright bad for you. |
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Even though investor sentiment seems to be downright dismal, it may still not be dismal enough. |
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He agreed that the beginning of the article appeared to be written tongue-in-cheek but the end of it was downright insulting. |
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The firm-fleshed white loup de mer was downright extraordinary in a light lemon-caper sauce, the meat sweet and the skin toothsomely crispy. |
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After my rant last week about the downright overblown nature of Premiership football, a coltish newsroom colleague collared me. |
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Persistence and tenacity, not to say downright stubbornness, are qualities that all tortoise owners will recognize. |
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The Ryder Cup trail has often been tortuous, twisting and downright tedious, but the rewards to the Scottish economy are expected to be enormous. |
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Whilst this provides a source of mirth for others, I find it downright irritating. |
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The programmes were a miscellany of serious sociology and downright mindless entertainment with the usual film fare thrown in for good measure. |
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In short, while the proposal may have merit, the method of proposing it has been downright shoddy. |
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I found his voice bland, without any colouring or nuance, and some of his pronunciations were downright odd. |
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The experiments were trivial, downright silly you may say, but the theoretical implications may be profound. |
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Is it boredom, morbid curiosity or just a downright nosiness to see how unfavourably other people's lives compare? |
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It had stopped snowing, the sun was out, and the glare off of all the clean white snow was downright blinding. |
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Joe's a bright guy with insightful views on many things, but here he sounds, well, downright simple-minded. |
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Since then, I have noticed that democracy isn't always pretty and capitalism can be downright ugly. |
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Which makes one wonder why the language of wine tasting has become so downright unappetizing. |
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Indeed, this is one retelling of the classic children's story that feels inert, unappetizing, and downright revolting. |
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We feel that besides this being the most unorganised event we have ever walked, officials were very uncompassionate and downright rude. |
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On this December afternoon, the wind was downright blustery and the temperature was frigid. |
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Not surprisingly, the disconcerting undertones of this film are downright troubling. |
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It is also full of the mundane, the pedestrian and the downright dull and ugly. |
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I may be a graduate of the noble and downright unemployable subject of Drama, but even I draw the line at mime artists. |
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For Americans, the words demonstrate their downright unhypocritical winningest spirit. |
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It is probably time to accept that raw taxonomic counts provide only a first, crude estimate of biodiversity dynamics and occasionally may be downright misleading. |
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It was soupy and gloopy, sickly and sour, and downright wonderful. |
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It looks splendid and magical, and is downright inspiring with its real grass, cup holders on the seats and a scoreboard big enough for Times Square. |
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Be prepared to laugh, cringe and cry as the play slips from the anarchical to the downright grotesque and be prepared for an unexpected twist at the end. |
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I can be a moper and a downright bore if left to my own devices at times. |
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November 5 may still be more than three weeks away but already the nuisance, fear and downright danger caused by the firework season is in full swing. |
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In fact, I think it'd be a downright brilliant idea if done properly. |
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The consummate skill of his intricate guitar-playing remains a defining feature, flitting between upbeat to downright poignant with supreme invincibility. |
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Investors were getting jittery, and some were downright panicky. |
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Many ideas, like one from the guy who wanted to use an electric fan to blow against a windmill and generate power, are well intentioned but downright silly. |
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Each result was not only an embarrassment, but a downright disgrace. |
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They made numerous wholly specious claims and at least one of the women witnesses confessed to having told downright porkies right from the start. |
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All at once, unattractive qualities such as insularity, parochialism and downright arrogance were introduced into the previously contented continental mix. |
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Enemies running the range from thoughtful to downright idiotic. |
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In the 1990s, her pictures are invariably hand-held and moving and, never one to beautify, they appear increasingly underlit, overlit or downright blurry. |
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At least I broke nothing and burned no one, although I did make mild-mannered old Jason downright peevish from all the messy sink water I splashed onto him. |
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When is the film-making process simply downright exploitative? |
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So while he comes out looking like the hapless victim of wilful misinterpretation, Carol is portrayed as mentally fragile and misguided, if not downright crazy. |
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Some are sound, some are iffy, and some are downright worthless. |
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Ethics without science is at best uninformed and at worst delusive, while science without ethics is at best suspect and at worst downright dangerous. |
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Rapid fluctuations in blood sugar can leave you feeling sluggish and lethargic, or even downright irritable and hungry again a mere hour after eating. |
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The team was pretty bad last year, but this year they're downright pathetic. |
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The typically fresh-faced, photogenic 31-year-old actor is sporting a bushy, unkempt, downright Biblical-looking beard. |
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Biohazard is so goofy, so downright daffy in its illogical cohesiveness that you'll wonder why it hasn't crossed your psychotronic doorstep before. |
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It was absurd, insane, and downright dangerous, but it was an idea. |
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Most of them just need jobs, and these jobs are extremely easy to get because of the undesirable, and downright horribly nasty and cruel, nature of the work. |
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All this festive cheer is starting to become a bit boring, so why not join us on a needless, hurtful, and downright nasty hate campaign against someone we've never met? |
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She practiced her scripted greeting as well as her waves and hand gestures, making sure that every word and every single detail was downright perfect. |
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But at the very least we must do our own house cleaning, change our downright nasty habits of further polluting an already over-polluted environment. |
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But there appears to have been a sudden change of heart by the tax authorities, chucking the whole process into doubt, delay and downright despair. |
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What often passes off as extrasensory perception, past-life memories and near-death experiences could well be fantasy, delusion or downright fraud. |
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The rest of them ranged from disquieting to downright whacko! |
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Mambo Italiano has its share of very funny moments, but they are trapped in a production whose drama is unsubtle, obvious, and at times downright insipid. |
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Nontraditional faculty may have to work in a chilly or a downright hostile climate if some of their departmental colleagues are unwelcoming or uncomfortable around them. |
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Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness. |
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It is hard to move in Edinburgh at this time of year without some corporate acting in a manner that can only be described as downright socially responsible. |
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I can be a moper and a downright sook if left to my own devices at times. |
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While all of these arguments contain a kernel of truth, close analysis shows that they are disingenuous at best and downright misleading at worst. |
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Rather than celebrating their prescience, the bloggers sound downright dismayed. |
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That advert is disgusting, degrading to womankind and downright dangerous. |
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It's been downright merciless, transforming a highly regarded play about four desperate lives in 1950s New York into painfully embarrassing dross. |
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It is such a relief to know which side is right, and downright comforting to have a hero in the person of that rookie cop who blew the whistle on the six bad cops. |
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In fact, during visits like these, the parents are often downright apologetic about it. |
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Persecuted is a ludicrously mushy political thriller, but the fact that it can find an audience is downright terrifying. |
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Other times, the connection is more remote, or downright nonexistent. |
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Finally, even I was struck into amazed silence by the vituperative and downright nasty anti-festive sentiments contained in the latest missive from the boys. |
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This and some Anadama bread makes a winter day seem downright pleasant. |
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Should we start to close down the internet, that great forum of free expression which is continually giving voice to the sad, the lonely and the downright insane? |
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All in all, Steven Wright sounds like he's downright bushed. |
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Most of the writing was done by Lincoln enthusiast Jesse Weik, and the reception was mixed at best and downright hostile at worst. |
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You are made to feel like an antediluvian creature or a downright atheist! |
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For an indie short film, the production values are downright impressive. |
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I think our intentions are good in trying to protect adolescents from exploitative, if not downright lecherous, adults. |
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And there always seems to be some feeble excuse or other in an attempt to defend their illicit actions, rather than admitting that most of them are just downright bad. |
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Shooting far, really far, in the mountains at inanimate targets with safe backstops is challenging and downright fascinating, even to the most practiced rifleman. |
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On the mobile front there's downright scepticism about picture messaging. |
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After decades of too-cute, formulaic romantic comedy pairings in movies and TV, their behavior seems downright revolutionary. |
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Tempting though it may be to view the cozy quaintness of Ann and Abby through rose-tinted glasses, advice columnists have always been known for downright chutzpah. |
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What I enjoyed about Sweetline the most was their downright honesty. |
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The joke about your boyfriend was downright dirty and obscene. |
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These techniques allow governments and corporations the freedom to promote ideas that would appear repulsive, discordant or even downright stupid if spoken in plain English. |
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A glimmer of either joyful revelry, criticism, or downright condemnation. |
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I find this extremely unprofessional, not to mention downright rude. |
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Getting caught on video doing it in a roomful of rich donors is downright sloppy. |
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Only it was, and now you feel terrible, downright sick to the bottom of your stomach, and the look on Noah's face makes you instantly regret your decision to tell him. |
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He's affable but obnoxious, well-intentioned but downright dorky. |
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Did they put a face on their activism, so people could see that the person behind the keyboard was a normal, likable, and downright sensible person? |
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Calder, however, was at pains to pay tribute to Boroughmuir's dashing performance in conditions that varied between plain nasty and downright vicious. |
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In the interest of fairness, Munster Finals should be on neutral ground but once again the Munster Council showed its downright craziness by not fixing the match for Cork. |
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Embalmer duties vary from distasteful to downright stomach-turning. |
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Pearl, like her dad, can be downright stubborn and headstrong. |
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If ditto machines were primitive, hectographs were downright prehistoric. |
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Through the gentle chiding of the gay stylist friend, to the downright vicious demands of Ms. Streep, to the snottish comments from the old Emily, it was cattishly pleasing. |
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But in comparison to the work done on reducing the garbage can size limit last year, the work on the traffic circle introduction was downright brilliant. |
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His playing is as imaginative and unpredictable as the source texts, flitting from bowed lyricism to mysterious pizzicato to downright scary scraping. |
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There are good solutions, okay solutions and downright very bad ones. |
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I wasn't particularly impressed with this article, but the sheer pomposity of some of the comments BTL has actually left me feeling downright depressed. |
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Within the vast, bright realm of cyberspace, however, lurk various tricksters and scam artists ranging from amusing to annoying or downright dangerous. |
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The moldiness of the bread meant that it was unpalatable, if not downright inedible. |
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Goya's portraits of the Spanish royal family represent a sort of peak in the honest and downright unflattering portrayal of important persons. |
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Being in the national press corps in some countries is downright dangerous. |
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Roller coasters range in scariness from the sedate to the downright terrifying. |
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Those 'eye 'designs above the entrances look rather Orwellian, they are downright ugly. |
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The weather is raw and boisterous in winter, shifty and ungenial in summer, and a downright meteorological purgatory in the spring. |
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But he's still managed to cram in all the laughs, poignancy and downright freakiness that we've come to expect from his projects. |
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At first, the couple is apprehensive, if not downright appalled. |
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Barley wines are traditionally hefty brews, but ours is downright excessive. |
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We believe the use of the acronym of FYROM is a downright insult to the citizens of the Republic of Macedonia. |
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The dream of a junkless, truly functional workspace is one fantasy you can realistically fulfill. It's downright exciting just to think about it! |
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But it also recognizes the undercurrent of despair and sometime downright loopiness that emerges when most everyone thinks they know most everything that's going on. |
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It bears the evident marks of having originally been, what the honest and downright Doctor Douglass assures us it was, a scheme of fraudulent debtors to cheat their creditors. |
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The fact that you couldn't manage to do that and spell at the same time is downright pitiable. I feel inclined to floccinaucinihilipilificate you entirely. |
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The piano was not simply out of tune, but had become downright tinny. |
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You can be thick, intransient, bigoted, even a downright liar. |
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Close behind William, another schoolboy, this time a fat and selfish one Billy Bunter, the fat owl of Greyfriars school was selfish, lazy and downright annoying. |
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It's a jarring mix of the amusing and the downright harrowing. |
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For example, if you cripple a big ol' honker, they can be downright nasty. |
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Loiter by the roadside in the car capital of the world and you'll see every possible classic, luxury, performance, hypercar and downright crazy ride rumble past. |
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The twisted trees and high tossed driftwood hinted that Skedans could be as thoroughly fierce as she was calm. She was downright about everything. |
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