Sentence examples for downright passive from inspiring English sources

By New York standards, the crowd was downright passive.

Connie Ogle of Popmatters listed Pfaster among the best monster-of-the-week characters of the series, and IGN's Christine Seghers ranked Chinlund the seventh best guest star in the history of the show, considering that "what makes him all the more frightening is how downright passive and polite he is up until the moment he's going to kill; the perfect camouflage for a modern-day monster".

Blessed in perimeter offense as they are, their core players are often strangely passive or downright enigmatic.

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So for all her typical emotional diffusion and passive, distanced style, coming from Coppola, "The Bling Ring" is a downright angry film, one rife with confusion, a vague disdain and a deep-rooted psychological unease.

Passive voice, horrible jargon, and run-on sentences make much if not most text confusing at best and downright inscrutable at worst.

Downright Stengelian.

Downright unAmerican?

Schwed was downright dismissive.

He's downright... unexceptional.

Others sounded downright gloomy.