Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people's lives and in the economy without the pressure of an outright crisis.
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.
Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial.
Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement.
Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.
Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.
Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.
If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.
A reverse mortgage is available to anyone who is at least 62 years old and owns a home outright, or has a small mortgage balance remaining.
My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.
If doesn't kill you outright, it just puts you into intensive care for months.
Globally, democracies have also acted in ways that suggest an outright renunciation of their principles at home.
It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film.
