"But he was always very straightforward, he stuck to his word, and he was impossible ever to buy anything from".
If something less than straightforward had stuck it might have had a galvanising effect on the others.
One major obstacle to a good campaign, though, is synthesizing complex realities into straightforward slogans that stick.
Labour should be honing a clear, straightforward message, and sticking to it.
In most of its tunes Galactic was a straightforward funk band, sticking to song forms and riffing methodically to spur one member's solo.
Instead of just putting his foot through the ball and hammering it up the field, he tried to take it around the goalscorer Robert Beric, leaving the striker with the straightforward task of sticking out a toe and prodding the ball goalwards.
For example, you avoid re-enactments and pretty much stick to straightforward talking-head interviews.
Much of children's literature sticks to straightforward narratives.
The house wines — red, white, or pink — bore the requisite bouquets of rose, soap, and graphite, a whiff of hay, a hint of Hooterville, though the menu remained mute about all this, sticking to straightforward declarations of hue.
The downstairs menu sticks to straightforward brasserie fare, with a few international additions, like matzo ball soup, a lively but overly vinegared salad of scungilli and hot peppers, and an exceedingly tame Cuban stew of tripe, short ribs and oxtail.
