straightly

“The experience may be a great bubbling mess of muck,” Diski told me, laboring to sit up more straightly in her bed, “but I’ve used it and played with it and turned it into . . .”

More often, though, the slats are aligned straightly, recalling hard-edged 1960s minimalism; one all-black piece is titled “Stella,” after Frank Stella’s pinstriped “Black Paintings.”

The armored knight, whose face gleamed palely through a raised visor, was poised as though standing on tip-toe, and a rib of the window rose straightly above his head.

For the labor of a critic who sincerely desires to be just, extends into more fields than it is possible for any single hand to furrow straightly.

Her eyes met the eyes of her visitor squarely and straightly, there was almost a hint of severity in the set of her lips.