Citations:straight-off

English citations of straight-off

immediate?

• 2005, Russell B. Goodman, editor, Contending with Stanley Cavell, Oxford University Press, page 89:

  These are questions that do not have a straight-off answer, and they show the impossibility, or the danger, of responding to skepticism with argumens that appeal to our ordinary beliefs: [...]

• 2000, G. E. M. Anscombe, Intention, page 8:

  […] such a straight-off description as 'She is sitting in a chair and writing'.