If you have been rubbed wrong by straightforward dairyness, fear not.
When Milan's teenage sensation Manuel Locatelli scored the goal that condemned Juventus to a second defeat of the season, it restored some faith in the idea that the Serie A season might not be as straightforward as feared.
So either the athlete squads for other sports will need to be reduced, or some of the less telegenic sports such as squash may have to be axed.The organisers are reluctant to indulge in straightforward cost-paring, fearing that this would reduce the quality of the games and hamper efforts to secure sponsorship deals of £25m-30m, now being sought by IMG, a sports-marketing company.
The only explanation I can give of Justice's half-measures is political: fear that a straightforward proposal to slice up the operating-system market would seem too radical.
But what he most wanted people to hear was that "the greater any of these apprehensions, the greater is the need that we look at them clearly, face to face, without fear, like honest, straightforward Americans, so we do not develop the jitters or any other kind of panic, that we do not fall prey to hysterical thinking.
It is far from a straightforward situation given Spurs' understandable fears about burnout, yet FA chairman Dyke claims he has been given assurances by the player's agent.
In Beto, I recognized the kind of Texan that I know well diligent, optimistic, principled, gracious, big-hearted, straightforward, and not scared or fear-mongering.
On "Creature Fear," he used a straightforward folk affect as a kind of misdirection; the band escalated into a frantic, extended post-rock delirium, and the voice disappeared.
Meanwhile, to comedian Marc Maron (of Maron and the WTF Podcast), the answer is more straightforward: "love is the antithesis of fear".
