Examples of flatly

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Unfortunately, the first chapter sets a combative tone by flatly stating that formal linguistic theory cannot explain anything about linguistic patterns.
Asked to name the good things about having no children, 93 % of respondents flatly responded that there were none.
In fact, the explanations might be flatly wrong, though probably not with intent to deceive.
The crucial point is that the structure of the bourgeois family flatly contradicted that of bourgeois society.
I think we should flatly deny that some of these kinds of sophisticated thinking even do take place.
Young people are denied access to the workforce flatly on grounds of age.
Few of these grants were easily elicited, some were decidedly difficult to extract, and occasional demands were flatly refused.
By the end of the century the bun had slid to the back of the head, where it appeared as a flatly coiled plait.
Can we say, flatly, that it is the only possible way?
The nominee flatly refused the steelmaker's plea to make foreign policy the single issue of the campaign.
The figure is flatly composed, like an ajouré relief, and though head and breast front us the legs are in profile.
Moreover, members of each of these minorities were uneasy about, or even flatly opposed to, some other element or elements in the policy package.
The final chapter ends flatly by reiterating some of the reasoning expounded earlier.
A later century has denounced these explanatory efforts, often indiscriminately, as being flatly vitalistic.
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