straight-ahead
adjective
: relating to or being music performed in an unembellished manner typical of a given idiom or performer
broadly
: straightforward
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Some claim the expression refers to the smartest based on straight-ahead smarts.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
According to the National Eye Institute, AMD occurs when aging causes damage to the macula, which controls sharp, straight-ahead vision, making one's central vision blurry.
—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
The album opens with Mockingbird, a straight-ahead blues rocker that might lull you into thinking this is another Blues-slinging record.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Arturo Sandoval Sandoval, renowned for blending Afro-Cuban jazz, bebop and straight-ahead jazz, performed in 1990 at the Honors tribute to his mentor Dizzy Gillespie.
—Cathy Applefeld Olson, Billboard, 9 Dec. 2024
Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba is very serious, without Idina Menzel’s deadpan humor, and Bailey’s Fiyero is played like a straight-ahead charmer, not a slyly fun slacker, and Michelle Yeoh’s Madame Morrible is grounded instead of grand.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
The images are often metaphorical vs. a straight-ahead depiction of what’s going on.
—William Earl, Variety, 20 Nov. 2024
Another break from the past was in terms of straight-ahead partisanship.
—Gary Langer, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2024
The projects that tend to do best are either straight-ahead rock or hard-to-categorize experimentalism: As examples, Rosalia’s Motomami took the prize in 2023, while Juanes and Natalia Lafourcade shared the award in an unexpected tie last year.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2024
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
According to the National Eye Institute, AMD occurs when aging causes damage to the macula, which controls sharp, straight-ahead vision, making one's central vision blurry.
—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
The album opens with Mockingbird, a straight-ahead blues rocker that might lull you into thinking this is another Blues-slinging record.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Arturo Sandoval Sandoval, renowned for blending Afro-Cuban jazz, bebop and straight-ahead jazz, performed in 1990 at the Honors tribute to his mentor Dizzy Gillespie.
—Cathy Applefeld Olson, Billboard, 9 Dec. 2024
Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba is very serious, without Idina Menzel’s deadpan humor, and Bailey’s Fiyero is played like a straight-ahead charmer, not a slyly fun slacker, and Michelle Yeoh’s Madame Morrible is grounded instead of grand.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
The images are often metaphorical vs. a straight-ahead depiction of what’s going on.
—William Earl, Variety, 20 Nov. 2024
Another break from the past was in terms of straight-ahead partisanship.
—Gary Langer, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2024
The projects that tend to do best are either straight-ahead rock or hard-to-categorize experimentalism: As examples, Rosalia’s Motomami took the prize in 2023, while Juanes and Natalia Lafourcade shared the award in an unexpected tie last year.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2024
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