Word: straight-forward
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Pressure for such favors as keeping someone's name out of proceedings, which Richardson faced in prosecuting the Goldfine case, presents a straight-forward problem not peculiar to lawyers, he noted: the "moral" course is, naturally, to resist the pressure...
...often seem equally harsh on friend and foe, announced a new project: a trip to Moscow to look over "this conflict between East and West." Trumpeted Monty: "I want to talk to these people to see what they think about it all." Did the field marshal think his, ah, straight-forward approach might smooth things a bit? "I certainly shall not make it worse...
...Democrats are radicals, the electorate is told; they are "hare brained spendthrifts;" they lack the "straight-forward, honest, sound and sane principles which make America great." By making radicals and liberals appear one and the same, the President of the United States is trying to make "liberal" a dirty word...
Brecht's slightly sophistic purpose is to convey the irony of his bitter and didactic fables by emphasizing the unreality of the stage. This he does by dispensing as much as possible with stage settings, by interjecting straight-forward moral statements directly to the audience. In The Three-Penny Opera he went so far as to have a lettered scroll unrolled at each scene. He was greatly influenced by Oriental drama and from it adopts the idea of using masks, which give the characters a certain archetypal quality. He also abandons the proscenium curtain, thus adopting from the Orient...
...Stallknecht canvases that toured the West were also filled with works of religious feeling, works interspersed with somber pictures of Chatham, its seafaring people and their tribulations. Straight-forward and often powerful, her art conveys almost as much bitterness and darkness as it does sweetness and light, with a Christian theme to give some light to its darkest corners...