And he writes a whole song about his girlfriend's feet, not because he's into feet per se, but because she walks on them, and, as he straightforwardly puts it, "they took you straight to me".
Governor Mario Cuomo of New York, in his keynote address at the 1984 Democratic convention, put this straightforwardly.
Or, to put it more straightforwardly, next week the person that's me is the person with my soul.
The views, political or otherwise, of playwrights themselves cannot be straightforwardly inferred from what they put into the mouths of their characters.
Thomas put his position straightforwardly in a dissent to a decision, in 2000, that upheld a Missouri law that limited individual contributions to local campaigns to a total of a thousand and seventy-five dollars.
To put the matter straightforwardly, for the Sarvāstivādins, wholes and continua are only conventionally real, whereas the atoms and point-instant consciousness are only ultimately real.
The basics are straightforwardly set out right at the start.
My own Hayek-inflected views, which put a heavy emphasis on ineradicable ignorance, straightforwardly imply the possibility of coordinated failures of economic foresight.
Officers, on the other hand, fear that their families would be put at risk, and in many cases are straightforwardly priced out of attractive city neighbourhoods by high property prices.
"We are glad that the commission has put the interest of the internal market and consumers first by applying state aid rules straightforwardly," Philippe Bodson, president of the Free and Fair Postal Initiative, a lobbying group based in Brussels, said in a statement.
So whether you like Mr Murdoch or hate Mr Murdoch, it was straightforwardly and unambiguously in the public interest for Mr Cable's remarks about Mr Murdoch to be put in the public domain.
