The digital-age foodie can access ingredients so fresh, so rich in taste and so downright perfect it's a wonder civilisation hasn't ground to a halt while we gorge non-stop.
The former argued that "even people who profess to hate pop music will secretly be tapping a foot to it and claiming it is just downright perfect pop for lolling around during the lazy warm, guaranteed to cheer the listeners up, no matter how down they're feeling".
In fact, he found prison downright counterproductive, "the most perfect school of vice that I ever saw".
After all, if something as dry as an HTML specification can only emerge from conflict, then it is downright ridiculous to expect perfect efficiency and bonhomie in a devastated West African nation being ravaged by a truly evil hemorrhagic fever.
Check the quality: some shoes are rubbish, with disintegrating heels and badly glued soles, some are downright tacky, but others are perfect.
Frank Rich seems downright gleeful at the "too perfect" circumstances wherein William Bennett has "lost all his culture wars as decisively as he lost his $8 million" -- as delighted, apparently, as Tupac Shakur would be if he were still alive.
Set in a former mill next to a rushing stream — the 15 or 20 outside seats, on fine summer nights, are downright Arcadian — it's a near-perfect example of functional design meshing with intrinsic structure.
Of course the polarisation of old and young rests on a fallacy, if not a downright lie: that all young people possess perfect skin and gleaming hair, have non-stop sex, are bursting with energy and are never lonely.
Jason Hughes of TV Squad found the episode to be "incredibly," going on to note, "As much as we fans love the films, we know they're not perfect, and that they're downright ridiculous in places.
Of course, the media is far from perfect, and parts of it can be downright mendacious.
Witnesses rarely have perfect recall and always have a limited (sometimes downright blinkered) vision of events.
