Flatly

Saying No flatly is more uncomfortable at first, but consequences are less painful later. ontario frog | ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Bravura technology and dazzling effects can't overcome the film's shortcomings: Standard plot, poorly conceived villain flatly played by Kevin Spacey, and similarly wooden performance from newcomer Brandon Routh (who lacks humor) in all of his roles." ❋ Unknown (2006)

Tulisia said the word flatly, with no inflection, not quite able to believe it had even been voiced. ❋ David_Peter (2007)

And he said, flatly, that is because of the stimulus, the stimulus that President Obama has put him in charge of implementing, Wolf. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well, I pressed Tony Snow and since he's calling flatly the Democratic plan a recipe for defeat, I asked him, four years later, what is the recipe for success? ❋ Unknown (2007)

There is certain a number of such incidents - the over-dubbed flatly-intoned Spanish poetry recitations in particular never coming to life on the screen - but this is well balanced with a viewpoint that shows a human side to the characters and the mutual attraction between several extreme and driven personalities. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Commuters who are trying to contact bus transport companies on landline numbers are either not finding any recipient or those who attend their calls flatly denying them booking of their seats.

Its loss helped create a whole new category of business by providing an opportunity for a kind of flatly partisan talk radio programming that had not previously existed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A little hard to chime in on the outrage when Bloomsbury is making the kind of flatly commercial decision that we're always being told we should make when shaping our work. ❋ Editorial Anonymous (2009)

"Jack puddings, " Harper said flatly, meaning officers. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)

Ackermann said Buffham's evidence was vital to the State's case and he (Buffham) "flatly" refused to testify in South Africa because he was afraid for his life. ❋ Unknown (2000)

"Do I understand, sir, that you would tell me a lie 'flatly'?" ❋ Madame Sarah Grand (N/A)

The homosexual urges were not "sublimated" in the art ” at least one cannot know that they were ” but Mann's sexual situation as a whole, as a Gestalt, is directly reflected in the work, which therefore, symbolic as it so ostentatiously is, one might well call flatly realistic. ❋ Bentley, Eric (1996)

What I didn’t recognize at the time was that The Last Picture Show was exactly the kind of novel from which good movies are made—that is, a flatly written book with strong characterizations and a sense of period and place. ❋ Larry McMurtry (1987)

He sank onto a chair and called flatly to Harry, "Another tequila. ❋ Mack Reynolds (1950)

Brady that the Constitution does not flatly require states to furnish counsel. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

At that time, some states had laws that flatly prohibited housing discrimination, but the federal government did not. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

Friend:*[driving]* Me: [Woah]!!! did you see that [flatly-cyclic]?!?!?! ❋ ProffessorMerrilly (2020)