Sentence examples for straight language from inspiring English sources

He reports serious concerns about the helicopter fleet, which he says, in characteristically straight language, was "creaking badly".

If you want to be able to use a language within a specific field, it's essential to combine subjects, as a straight language degree may not command a big enough premium on the job market.

Whoever heard of someone who couldn't give their job description in straight language when asked?

This requires more than just straight language skills, it's about ensuring that advertising and branding translates culturally.

Speakers of Nahuatl of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec call their language mela'tajtol ("the straight language").

At face value, it's a drug cartel heist movie, but instead of coming on with body counts and car crashes, that hopelessness is delivered in straight language, around action more conceptual than a regular old shoot 'em up.

He used the phrase "the straight path" – language taken directly from the Qur'an.

A city sanitation crew finally set him straight in language that left quite a bit of tact to be wished for, he felt.

In straight, composed language, Mr. Macedo offered platitudes about the importance of the Mexico's struggle to establish the rule of law.

I thought it would be interesting to structure this review around the claims in those points — delivering some straight plain language talk about how they do or do not live up on the actual device.

They drew on their previous ingenious work of taking real-time, closed-captioning feeds straight into language processing modules to produce the most elegant works of digital art.