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