downrightness


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Noun 1. downrightness - the quality of being direct and straightforward; "what some people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness"
directness, straightness - trueness of course toward a goal; "rivaling a hawk in directness of aim"
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The Celtic literature is full of wonder, it is full of a tender magic and makes us feel the fairy charm of nature, although it has not the strength, the downrightness, we might say, of the English.
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Clare, like most men of his class of mind, cordially hated the present tense of action, generally; and, therefore, he was considerably annoyed by Miss Ophelia's downrightness.
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Partly it is a certain flatness or downrightness with which even the most extravagant metaphorical statements are made (Lo spiraglio dell'alba/respira con la tua bocca, which I have rendered a little less strange than it actually is: "The dawn-glimmer, the breath - / as if your mouth released it").
Pavese's late love poems

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