The nation was watching, and it turned into outright war.
No note is cheated, no note out of tune, this in the midst of outright war.
The long-simmering insurgency in Aceh, at the country's western tip, has boiled over into outright war.
Outright war, however, has not been part of life here, and the invasion of Somalia has raised unfamiliar fears.
Couples deal with relationship woes in many ways — from denial to outright war, and every fraught emotion in between.
Outright war has been avoided for the past decade thanks largely to Heidar Aliev, the former Azerbaijani president.
Even if we can avert an outright war, we have a good idea of what the results will be.
The problem, as he sees it, is an "outright war" between online advertisers and the rest of us.
Terrified by the knowledge that their nuclear armed missiles could destroy life on either side of the divide, Moscow and Washington sought detente rather than outright war.
What's happening is an outright war against reality, a war of mystification, of illusions, in which lies are being spat out by the news suppliers every day.
Since getting their nukes they have bristled at each other across a long, heavily armed border, but no dispute has risen to an outright war.
