straight arrow
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“Jennifer is a straight arrow with real experience,” said former Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren, a longtime colleague.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022
Lobo said Thursday he brought Bonilla in to clean up the force, because he was known as a straight arrow.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
“Masha Yovanovitch is known as a straight arrow, disciplined, professional.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2019
It’s a testament to Luke Perry that his straight arrow was as much fun to watch as Ulrich’s live wire.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2019
At Truman, Wayne is known as a straight arrow, Mr. Responsibility.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
Bush nominated Cheney: He’d known him from the Nixon days, and he figured—correctly—that the nomination of a popular, well-informed, straight-arrow congressman would go quickly.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2025
With roots in small-town Indiana, Fain, now 54, was known as a straight-arrow young man who respected teachers and coaches at Taylor High School near Kokomo, from which he graduated in 1987.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2023
“Jacy might be the most conventional character I’ve ever written, the most straight-arrow person,” Abbott says during a Zoom call from her home office in Queens, N.Y..
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2023
The book is suffused with an earnest, straight-arrow tone.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 3, 2021
We see straight-arrow Rex Harri- son disdaining Alexandria in the 1963 film Cleopatra, until he is beguiled by Elizabeth Taylor.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
