Sentence examples for straight making from inspiring English sources

Eisenberg plays it absolutely straight, making this a very sad comedy indeed.

New Jersey courts have also upheld the adoption rights of unmarried couples, both gay and straight, making the state something of a magnet for such families.

And on "LA," a calm, squalid portrait of Los Angeles — inspired (of course) by Joan Didion's fiction — he plays it absolutely straight, making no great show of effort and getting precisely the right result.

Earley isn't into genre-bending; he tells his coming-of-age story straight, making all the familiar stops in a way that reminds us, paradoxically, just how unfamiliar they've become.

There the reef was coral and perfectly straight, making an immaculate wave, and the water was warm — the island where the wave broke straddled the equator, a hundred miles west of Sumatra — but the last section before the channel there also wrapped around luxuriously, inviting a sharp last maneuver, although on a larger scale.

This excellent book should go far towards setting the record straight, making it clear that although, in America, the wartime poster girl Rosie the Riveter was shoved firmly back into the kitchen from which she needed liberating by Betty Friedan, in Europe the picture was very different.

"Get it full and straight, make him play.

Sit up straight, make eye contact and shake hands firmly.

(Elbow straight) Make sure your right (striking) hand is in a fist.

While your back should be straight, make sure not to arch your spine.

Standing with your legs straight makes for a less powerful swing.