Sentence examples for essentially straight from inspiring English sources

That an essentially straight establishment could crown one of San Francisco's most prominent gay landmarks might seem contradictory to some, but it is emblematic of the times.

The plateau de fruits de mer has long been part of the coastal cuisine of Brittany, served essentially straight off the fishing boats.

When Mr. Galway joined the percussionists, he played the work's flute line speedily and essentially straight, but the percussion context -- elaboration rather than accompaniment -- transformed the reading into an interestingly modern deconstruction.

Late in life he described sex as mostly wrestling, and he seems to have liked the transgressive move from rough-house to lovemaking, which perhaps went back to school days, and certainly to frolics with the essentially straight bar-boys of Berlin.

The urbane Horne was essentially straight man to a troupe of gifted character comedians, including Paddick, and, while Julian may have been Paddick's most famous role, he also scored as ageing juvenile Binkie Huckaback in Noel Cowardish parody sketches with Betty Marsden's Dame Celia Molestrangler.

Each layer of non-crimp fabric (NCF) in a blanket has fibres that are essentially straight with a distinct orientation and uniform thickness.

To call the film's sexual politics "confused" would be to misunderstand the economics of the exploitation film industry; despite a brief foray into cinemas, this is essentially straight-to-DVD fare, the hint of subversion in Hewitt and Belinda McClory's script buried deep under layers of streetwise cinematography and dubious stripclub sleaze.

"We've essentially gone straight up since Jan .2. There's certainly room for people to take profits".

The boy is so empathetic he seems to have been born without a layer of skin, and Mr. Willis is essentially a straight man.

The worst case, most interviewed agreed, would be for a museum to accept money from a gallery to stage a show of new or available work that the gallery could essentially sell straight off the museum walls.

On a day when Ive was so exhausted that it seemed possible he might fall asleep while talking, he became animated when describing the "primitive" design geometry that was usual before the computer era — essentially, two straight lines joined by a fragment of a circle.