| We always thought that we would just be a straight-up country band, like George Jones or Johnny Cash. |
|
| Which is why the straight-up truth rarely enters into the American political conversation. |
|
| It was a driving blend of straight-up rock songs, some with a psych twist and others as more conventional jams. |
|
| Avowed influences include everything from The B-52s to math rock by way of good ol' straight-up punk, making want to party! |
|
| And even there they can't win in a straight-up confrontation, but have to subvert the process. |
|
| No one should slide through without giving voters a straight-up answer to that question. |
|
| He's simply saying that straight-up, hardcore statistics suggest that the chances of any of us doing so are microscopic. |
|
| He was reaching out to the kids, helping families and all sorts of needy individuals, just being a straight-up nice guy. |
|
| She's the one who will know when to be straight-up with her folks and when they can't deal with anything other than a polite fiction. |
|
| I swear that I never meant this blog to be straight-up self-analysis, but I just can't seem to help it. |
|
| The record struck a chord with me as just straight-up beautiful and honest songwriting. |
|
| Getting straight-up info on what each campaigns' own polls are telling them is inherently difficult. |
|
| He's a true perfectionist and straight-up stickler for detail. |
|
| During straight-up sprints, the softness of the suspension isn't really a factor. |
|
| Named after the run-down apartment building the band was eventually evicted from, The Lawrence Arms give us straight-up, Midwestern punk rock. |
|
| He was a straight-up guy, someone who told the truth, even when it hurt. |
|
| The straight-up fear of a world in which disco singles consistently topping the charts was the new normal. |
|
| This is some straight-up Days of Our Lives nonsense, which is to say that it is fun to entertain, but only as pure ridiculousness. |
|
| There are songs that are straight-up pop records, songs that have a lot of depth, some dance, some acoustic. |
|
| Avowed influences include everything from The B52s to math rock by way of straight-up punk. |
|
|
|
| Another time I wasn't redirected, so I was on the US based regular straight-up dot org site. |
|
| The complementing soundtrack, therefore, is a sour mash of sultry but sombre Southern mood music by mostly straight-up bluesmen. |
|
| In New York, a more stressful town, he's now moved to straight-up venti ice coffee. |
|
| This can be as simple as inviting a boy to sit with you or as involved as straight-up asking him out on a date. |
|
| At least in the old days the ads were a bit more straight-up. |
|
| This New Jersey band began in 1996 playing straight-up brutal, atonal death metal. |
|
| The K339 is an adjustable tension holster with a straight-up draw that provides fast access to a firearm. |
|
| They do straight-up new wave, no air quotes or knowing smirks attached. |
|
| Ask him straight-up in a non-combative way if he really likes her. |
|
| The handlebar is swept back and slightly upward, enough to allow almost straight-up riding, with the feet comfortably placed on the footpegs in line with the hips. |
|
| I want to know the truth straight-up and that is what he gives me. |
|
| But again, the Vital Might slips away from a straight-up hard-rock classification. |
|
| But what's nefariously intriguing about this software is that it isn't trying to hijack your current browser, it's straight-up replacing it. |
|
| And he hasn't changed: he's still a straight-up fella, a hard grafter. |
|
| Colorado punk rockers Reno Divorce play straight-up punk rock at a freight-train pace. |
|
| He's always stayed the same: a straight-up guy, and a grafter. |
|
| There's still a great sense of openness about the whole thing, even moving from Pistol Whipped's odd brand of folksiness to Childhood's more straight-up guitar rock. |
|
| Straight-up rock 'n' roll no longer contends for large audiences. |
|
