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Letter "D" » downright
«[Walter Burns is] the archetypal managing editor-ruthless, self-righteous, manipulative, downright maniacal if it means an exclusive, especially one that it can congratulate itself for on its own front page.»
Author: Jay Carr
| Keywords:
archetypal, congratulated, congratulates, congratulating, downright, editor, front page, maniacal, ruthless, self-righteous, The Front Page
«Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Jealousy,
Liberty
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approaches, downright, guard, inevitably, jealous, jewel, ruined, suspect, unfortunately
«The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant»
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Author, Clergyman, Pastor, Speaker, Writer)
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disputant, disputants, downright, slippery
«Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.»
Author: Florence King
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bump into, Catch A, downright, recommended, scald, Scalded, scalding, self help
«Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.»
Author: Leo Burnett
(Executive)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
bent, confusion, downright, irritation, irritations, noses, rarely
«All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
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circulation, coin, confederation, downright, perplexities
«When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.»
Author: Lord Byron
| About:
Existence
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buttoning, dormouse, downright, infancy, subtract, subtracted, subtracting, subtracts, swill, swilling, unbutton, unbuttoning, vegetation
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