Sentence examples for downright effective from inspiring English sources
Given that drug innovation has been largely away from breakthroughs, arguing that a new drug recently approved and reaching the market is downright effective, safe and affordable is actually parlous.
Here's Heidi: When it comes to the economy, there's nothing as effective, as spirited, as downright inspiring as a committee.
While that particular plotline actually has a pretty effective pay-off, the build-up is downright torturous, stretching both credulity and our sustaining interest to near-breaking thanks to poor pacing and logic problems.
They're downright irresistible for her campaign, and they'll certainly be effective.
It's no secret of course that negative campaigning can often be effective, but for Mr. Milbank to revel in attacks and invective seems downright perverse.
And her cover of "I Told You So," a late-'80s hit by Randy Travis, is a surprisingly effective melodramatization; compared with his rather quiet, wistful version, hers is downright operatic.
But effective though analogies may be, they are never exactly appropriate and sometimes are downright wrong.
Schwed was downright dismissive.
He's downright... unexceptional.
