Sentence examples for downright more from inspiring English sources

The stakes are higher, and the characters, drawn from a wider social milieu, are downright more interesting.

With the Liberal Democrats looking unresponsive or downright incompetent, more voters now seem willing to give Japan's untested opposition a shot at finding a way out of the nation's stubborn economic morass.

Zielenbach ([2000]) describes the process as highly nuanced and at times downright messy, more of an art than a science.

And the software selection is downright skimpy little more than a quick way to create e-mail postcards with still and video images.

The prospect of too many differing technologies and products coming together can be confusing and occasionally downright dumb; more Frankenstein-like electronic genetics experiment gone amok than functional products that consumers will embrace.

The Iron Man Triathlon is a 30-year-old event that's downright crazy – more than two miles of swimming, over a hundred miles of bicycling, followed by a full 26-mile marathon run.

Other entries are downright surprising, none more so than Margaret Thatcher.

Some of these visitors are downright charming, few more so than the two guys from the planet Hondo in "The History of Future Folk".

Simply this: she seems not altogether of this earth, yet she can be more downright earthy, even grubby, than just about any screen personality you can name.

"Groundless accusations are not new to American politics," ABC's Jake Tapper says, "but this President has been forced to deal with more downright falsehoods than any President I can think of".

If you think what attracts men to pretty-boy Johnny is something less ethereal and more downright Greek, just come out and say it, my dear!" She didn't, but we will.