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As for the pictures, they’re shrouded in ominous shadows, but although the raven’s eyes burn like embers, the bird does nothing worse than cry “nevermore,” and Lenore, when she appears, looks downright comely.

"Speculation is unhelpful and can be downright dangerous, so I just ask that people lower the temperature of the rhetoric," she said.

The movie reveals itself to you, layer by layer, incident by incident, in a way that becomes downright intoxicating.

If you think about it long enough, the sport as it exists within American culture is downright dystopic, garnering fanaticism that drives players to violent ends.

So it was downright terrifying when McLachlan almost lost this voice last November, when a viral infection silenced it while she was preparing for the Canadian leg of her “Fumbling Towards Ecstasy” anniversary tour.