While local farm-to-table, put-a-bird-on-it restaurants compete to make the best boar tartar or dehydrated olive spread, Fodder's smoked mullet and cornmeal-fried chicken is a downright refreshing change of pace.
Yes, that is a lot of money but it is downright pocket change compared with what they cost now, verging on the four-figure mark, even soaring past it in the case of the fanciest of Christian Louboutin and Yves Saint Laurent doo-dads.
I understand perfectly well the arguments about the reaction of those whose jobs are threatened, for whom the global meltdown has created insecurity and downright fear of change.
When you survey the history of life on this planet, some changes look downright miraculous.
But the way Sony went about trying to change that platform downright ridiculous.
It's still not great news for the RIM, but it's a welcome change from its downright lousy earnings figures (net loss of $518 million on $2.8 billion in revenue) reported last quarter.
She lacks the Stark grit of her siblings and has been downright annoying at times and a change is needed.
Sometimes climate change seems like a downright good idea.
Manhattan may have been forever changed; New Orleans, however, was downright pummeled, flattened, and shattered, perhaps in part beyond repair.
The first presents a somewhat implausible way to embrace change; the second imagines a downright fantastical way to avoid it.
