Sentence examples for downright breathtaking from inspiring English sources

But perhaps the most spectacular drives in the Mid-Atlantic — exquisite year-round and downright breathtaking in the fall — are Virginia's 105-mile Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway, which begins just to its south.

In that respect, it's refreshing to come across one of the area's more memorable stays in a region that is downright breathtaking.

Having bagged the honour of closing the Cannes film festival this year, Ice and the Sky is at once heartwarming, breathtaking and downright chilling.

Today, with the help of Sean Brock (award winning James Beard Chef) and his new breathtaking and downright impressive cookbook "Heritage," we have a chicken recipe that you will never forget.

Use this technique in an already breathtaking city, and the results are downright stunning.

Indeed, "Network operators like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and AT&T, in cahoots with developers and landlords, routinely use a breathtaking array of kickbacks, lawyerly games of Twister, blunt threats, and downright illegal activities to lock up buildings in exclusive arrangements".

Downright Stengelian.

Downright unAmerican?

Downright deceit.

Breathtaking stuff.

Farming seemed downright anachronistic.