Sentence examples for downrightness from inspiring English sources

All that was needed was a formal repertoire that would invest fantasy with the downrightness of fact.

She had fallen in love with the Wilcox family, and incidentally with a boy of it; she "had vowed to be less polite to servants in the future," and had perceived the charms of downrightness and brutality, of "the life of anger and telegrams".

She had fallen in love with the Wilcox family, and with a boy of it; she "had vowed to be less polite to servants in the future," and had perceived the charms of downrightness and brutality, of "the life of anger and telegrams".

"Once again," he announces with uncharacteristic downrightness, "the time has come to take Marx seriously".