awfully

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Still, its tale of reform is awfully familiar.

From Los Angeles Times

But if we adjust the details a bit, that sounds awfully close to Elon Musk’s lazy storybook fantasies about charming hobbit villages protected by “hard men.”

From Salon

This week two senior leaders of the British broadcaster stepped down over the actions described above and a question naturally occurs: Isn’t this pattern getting awfully old?

From The Wall Street Journal

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime,” Jake writes, “but at night it is another thing.”

From Salon

Mayor Johnson says the business community is being “awfully unreasonable” in its opposition to the tax and that it should “do some real soul-searching.”

From The Wall Street Journal