Jesus spoke in parables, his disciples didn't - they preached about him and they told it straight.
So he called in the CEOs of Mattel and Toys "R" Us, made them sit in front of dozens of photographers and TV cameras, and told them straight out what he really thinks of them - they're great guys.
As for the stories, which are told in straight chronological order, they're amusing when taken one by one, but they don't come remotely near adding up to a plot, nor do they make you care about Ms. Mengers, who comes across as a thoroughly nasty piece of goods, the kind of "friend" who starts gossiping about you as soon as you leave the room.
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"It was a very good match, " Murray told BBC Sport straight after his win.
Instead they are told to stand straight, arms at their side.
Rebecca Nash, 22, and Hope Stubbings, 19, said they booked a double room at the Brunswick Square Hotel but when they arrived they were told it only accepted straight couples and families.
After Ken Kutaragi straight up told his rivals that he " didn't care" about the so-called competition they were trying to provide, and those very rivals laughed in his face over Sony's countless delays in producing its miracle machine, it seems that we're finally getting a bit of good ole honesty from Sony's "worldwide studios boss, " Phil Harrison.
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Dr Ramin Tasharrofi told him to call 999 straight away, but there was no record of the call being made.
Conservative Douglas Carswell, a well-known Eurosceptic, told MPs they faced a straight forward choice: vote to give people a referendum or vote not to trust the people.
Back in 1999, he told the public with a straight face that a demand he made to the Toronto Blue Jays to trade him to the Yankees was about winning.
Algeria's frustration then told when Belhadj was given a straight red card for a two-footed lunge on Ahmed Al Muhammadi.
Mr. Difazio recently told the court, with a straight face, that his client, Delphi, had deceived him back in the year 2000.
Straight-laced Michael Powell told me of his recent Corvette purchase, a beautiful silver job.
"I got offered a new contract a few month's ago when Walter's own future hadn't been resolved and I said no straight away, " Broadfoot told the club website.
Ms Blears told the BBC that politicians not giving straight answers could be an issue, but said a "grown up political discourse" could only happen if people were prepared to listen.
Just like they told you for your school photo, sit up straight, wet your lips and lean forward just a bit.
But town clerks have co-operated with the paperwork, tax offices have ensured that gay couples are treated like straight ones, insurance companies have been told not to discriminate.
After being told of the violence in London, the home secretary headed straight back to survey the damage.
"When I got the text from the Wales management I was straight on the phone to my parents, " Lydiate told BBC Sport with a beaming smile.
Thomas told the show last week how he used to "pray to be straight".
One woman who has dated fifty-eight men since her divorce, a few years ago, told me that she maintains a chart, both to keep the men straight and to try to discern patterns as though there might be a unified-field theory of why men are dogs.
Dave Wheeler, who also lost his son Benjamin that day, calmly told the legislative panel that the government's priorities need to be set straight.
Asked why, Cambara, in a straight approach to the task informed by a touch of defiance, told her that she meant to reclaim the family property, wrest it from the hands of the warlord.
"The manager has been straight and truthful, very trustworthy, I felt good, " he told BBC Radio Cumbria.
But it may not have told us very much about Djokovic's chances of winning this title for the third straight time.
Rather than release it straight to the commercial market it's tailor-made for, 3M told us that we could expect to first see it put to use in educational settings -- offering children, parents and teachers kinesthetic learning opportunities.
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