Sentence examples for downright collapse from inspiring English sources
Governance, in this regime, seems to be a part-time hobby, done just enough to prevent a downright collapse of state and society.
Deranged residents are a constant presence, and after dark the neighborhood can seem downright sinister, with drunken people collapsed on streets and others furtively smoking pipes in doorways.
What is happening for these two teams is not necessarily going to happen to other clubs with histories of collapse or mediocrity or downright failure.
Both the IMF and private investors might regard one financial upheaval as unfortunate; two look like downright carelessness.For all the financial disruption, the worst fallout from a collapse of the disinflation programme would be political, not economic.
While no constituent group sounded overjoyed with Mr. Bush's announcement -- and many, particularly anti-abortion groups, were downright angry -- the president managed to keep his core Republican constituency from collapsing.
As his team stands poised on the edge of a historic collapse that rivals "Casey at the Bat," his poetry has become morose, dark, miserable, downright apoplectic.
Schwed was downright dismissive.
He's downright... unexceptional.
Others sounded downright gloomy.
