Downright impossible would be the moment she saw Jack again and struggled for something to say.

It's fairly easy for a novel or a painting, harder for a piece of music and downright impossible for a movie.

It would make any sort of assignation downright impossible.

It seems downright impossible by today's standards that one could be a riveting acoustic guitar player and command the attention of enough people to matter.

Being a parent is hard enough when you have a spouse who shares the responsibility, so doing it on your own can seem downright impossible.

It's downright impossible for anyone to get here quicker than we did.

When the search results came back, they were more than disappointing-they were downright impossible.

In some cases, it would be downright impossible for a big fund to establish a position that it would consider worthwhile.

Strasbourg is presumably a difficult destination to reach, and downright impossible in exceptional circumstances.