Sentence examples for a man of straight from inspiring English sources

Adults had echoed the perception, but none of the whispers came from Steele, Carroll Academy's omnipresent security director, a man of straight faces and penetrating eyes, the son of a black mother and a mixed-race father.

He was a man of no side, extremely straight in his dealings with friends and professional acquaintances.

A contemporary described him as "a man of striking individuality, as straight as an Indian, standing six feet in his stockings and weighing about 200 pounds".

Straight talk from a man of principle.

A week later, with a look of trepidation the agency presented a single A3 sheet of paper with an image of a man staring straight at me with the words I wish my son had cancer.

In the studio, Abdelke showed me another recent work — a large charcoal drawing of a man lying straight and stiff on the ground with his eyes open and a bullet hole in his forehead leaking blood.

In the patio, there is a haunting, larger-than-life photograph of a man staring straight into the camera, a heavy woolen bandage covering a bloody machete wound.

Then the protagonist steps out into the snow and gets a lift from a man straight out of a Coen brothers movie who is driving a terrible car and clasping the perfect woman's number in his hand, a number that he loses and the young man finds, and calls only to... Well, you get the idea.

"He talked about them as children, but from the tone of the letter it was clear that these girls must have been about 14 or 15," Morrall gives out a low chuckle as she thinks of her father – a man so straight he wore a jacket and tie to the beach – dealing with a group of girls bursting with curiosity and hormones.

They think of a white person, a man, purportedly straight.

Mr. Voorhies — a man's man straight out of Hemingway — can summon an osprey with his birdcalls and entertain for hours with yarns about Louisiana scalawags.