The phrase "pretty much straightforward" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used when giving an explanation for something that is not overly complex. For example, "This procedure is pretty much straightforward; just follow the instructions carefully."
"Up until then, Elsa was pretty much a straightforward villain," said Lee. "After that, she was much more complex, more interesting and sympathetic".
"Up until then, Elsa was pretty much a straightforward villain," said Lee. "After that, she was much more complex, more interesting and sympathetic". In an early miscalculation, before it saw sense and posted the Let It Go sequence on YouTube, Disney remade the song as a Katy Perry knock-off and gave it to pop star Demi Lovato.
At least Clooney can do comedy; he did well for the Coens in Intolerable Cruelty (2003), which was pretty much a straightforward 1940s romantic comedy, and he's also the best thing in the car-crash of Burn After Reading, which otherwise sees John Malkovich and Brad Pitt torching the illusion that they were ever any good to begin with.
Christopher Thomas, the senior vice president for Brooklyn at the William B. May Company, said the current market is "pretty much a straightforward supply and demand situation where the creation of a lot of new market-rate rentals in Manhattan has impacted on the rental markets in Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope".
"When you know the horses you are riding, you have a pretty much a straightforward enough plan in your mind, and you can be happy".
For example, you avoid re-enactments and pretty much stick to straightforward talking-head interviews.
Assault class pretty much has a straightforward role.
The answer to this question is actually straightforward: pretty much the same kind of justices any Republican president would nominate.
It sounds straightforward, and it pretty much is.
