I felt a little jealous, as Tehran's message was so much more mysterious, versus the straightforward American invitation that could have easily said, "The doctor is accepting patients today".
Some might argue his tenacity wasn't exactly appropriate for the workplace, but Michelle's true reason to decline invitations was more straightforward: if she, a black woman, were to date the first cute black man at the office, it would just get too many tongues wagging.
The Sherpa ascents, displaying enormous stamina, were a salute to Sir Edmund, a straightforward beekeeper, who turned down an invitation to celebrate in London with Queen Elizabeth II to be here with friends in Nepal.
"I'm getting invitations that are pretty straightforward design," he said of recent commissions.
Invitastic, a newly-released project by Jackson Fish Market (which brought us Tafiti and They're Beautiful!), heads in the other direction by making invitations pleasingly simple and straightforward.
By the time the film is done, Get On Up seems less like an invitation to dance, still less have sex, and more like straightforward career advice.
Hearing that from a woman who knows how to be straightforward — and who would now surely be able to issue some invitations on her own — one can't help but wince.
Adonis added: "The provision for contingencies is now 50% of the £28bn cost – straightforward evidence of very poor project management on the part of HS2 and ministers, and an open invitation to massive overspending and to very lax cost control".
BBC director general Mark Thompson wrote on our pages yesterday: "It is a straightforward matter of fact that … the BNP has demonstrated a level of support that would normally lead to an occasional invitation to join the panel on Question Time".
He adds: "It is a straightforward matter of fact that … the BNP has demonstrated a level of support which would normally lead to an occasional invitation to join the panel on Question Time.
