Sentence examples for was straightaway from inspiring English sources
adverb
At once; immediately.
For Ms. Zigic, it was "straightaway, love on the first sight".
"I knew what it was straightaway, but it was pretty overwhelming to see those sheer numbers," he told the Guardian.
But that first hint of it as a seedy milieu was straightaway discounted by the town, and by Greene himself, who should know.
His father rushed to help, and Davies says, "it's not just the bravery of it, although I think it was, it was the instinctiveness … Also that he recognised it for what it was, straightaway".
He knows who she is "straightaway".
"One million in one year is straightaway peanuts for me.
"It has one hump and the rest is straightaway".
He flies from one thing to another with incredible dispatch — throws a somersault and is straightaway back again where he was last week.
He is a great persuader, and is straightaway telling me in his generous, conspiratorial manner about how he felt when the British Council called a year ago to invite him to represent Britain in the closest the art world comes to the Olympics.
It's a clever and promising idea – full of such moments as Russell struggling not to flinch when her daughter reports the cold war anti-Ruskie tone of American history-teaching – but the sort of executives who like viewers to know where they are straightaway would be signed off on immediate sick-leave after a viewing.
… Our tradition must be appropriated from the direction in which we are heading, as a new possibility" (NKC VIII, 183; Nishitani 1990, 179); and: "Simply put, the backward looking return to tradition is straightaway to be forward looking" (NKC XIX, 104).
