Does the scout oath, with its language about staying "morally straight," declare a value about sexual orientation or just a general, admirable code of conduct?
ABC's Fact Check were quick to step in and set things straight, declaring there was "no evidence to support the claim".
Then a sweeping searchlight straight ahead declared, he decided, the presence of the Alton airport.
A priori propositions, they said, are (1) linguistic, (2) conventional, and (3) analytic: (1) They are statements primarily of how one proposes to use words; if one says that "a straight line is the shortest line between two points," this merely reports one's definition of "straight" and declares one's purpose to use it only of the shortest.
This is why last October Baroness Anelay, minister of state of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, could, with a straight face, declare: "We do not support planned search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean.
Instead, we have decided to sacrifice some of our most psychologically and physically frail members as politicians cynically (yet with straight faces) declare that by "humiliating the many, we will find the needle in the haystack".
Then a person comes along who does not identify gay or straight and declares the truth about himself: He is comfortable sexually with either gender, and the house of identity we've built suddenly is rocked by winds of change, and seems less solid, more vulnerable than we imagined.
Their main priority at the start of the day was for Bell to get his hundred, otherwise they would have declared straight away and attacked Sri Lanka from the off.
The Cloverfield Paradox is the kind of movie where a character will straight-facedly declare: "This dimension is eating us alive!" The first trailer for the film hit during the Super Bowl, and Netflix released the movie itself as soon as the game was over.
Serious career politicians from the left need to start going on the news, and straight-facedly declare: the workers must be given control of the means of production.
