Paintings can't be measured in kilojoules, with a straight read off of their stored energy.
The next morning at breakfast, we would exchange tales of our martyrdom – someone had stayed up for three days straight reading Crime and Punishment, another had moved into the library, toothbrush and all.
On Saturday the saxophonist Gary Bartz and his band performed Jackson's song "I Can't Help It," with the young jazz and hip-hop vocalist Bilal giving it a fairly (for him) straight reading.
The photographically composed text can be delivered either on paper or on film, in positive or negative, or in straight reading or reverse reading.
And no campy theatrics are necessary, Ms. Balbirer said; a straight reading from the texts -- written in all seriousness -- supplies all the humor that's needed, she said.
The straight read-through of comparing the Brexit vote with the Trump victory is a poor way of understanding the many different countries that the US actually is.
Page and Plant had reformed for a new album, and had been reinterpreting many of their classics live, but this is an exhilaratingly straight reading of one of their most straightforwardly rock'n'roll songs.
One reason why liberals can't lay a finger on Mr Bush is that they are just too damn angry to punch straight: read, say, Paul Krugman's columns in the New York Times and you are often left worrying less about the commander-in-chief than about the columnist-in-a-tizz.
But beyond the obvious humour of a large man wearing an even larger frock, Alan Stanford does not offer new insights into Bracknell's stentorian absurdity: what we get is, ironically, a straight-up Bracknell, and indeed a fairly straight reading of the play overall.
