The phrase "a kind of plain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that resembles or has the characteristics of a plain, often in a metaphorical or comparative sense.
Example: "The landscape was a kind of plain, stretching endlessly under the vast blue sky."
Alternatives: "a type of plain" or "a sort of plain".
There is a kind of plain-spoken and rueful candour that is apparently entirely outside Grass's gift; perhaps it can only be done by Anglo-Saxon writers.
Often, it's from this unfettered darkness that the author delivers her best lines, the words strung together with a kind of plain-mouthed beauty.
The production crew found, in the words of the production designer Bo Welch, "a kind of generic, plain-wrap suburb, which we made even more characterless by painting all the houses in faded pastels, and reducing the window sizes to make it look a little more paranoid".
One of his core enterprises has been a kind of hiding in plain sight — the creation of a series of personal myths and teasing pseudo-autobiographies.
During the apartheid era, it was a kind of Purgatory in plain sight for those the white regime feared most, a place forbidden to all but the inmates and their jailers.
Instead, they developed a kind of surfboard look: plain geometric forms, with immaculately smooth surfaces that took on an interior glow, particularly in sculptures made from glass, or from plastic, which, after years of restricted military use, had become available on the popular market.
Leadership like that is highly pragmatic but it can be porous and directionless as well, and there has been an intermittent sense over this past term of Shorten minimising himself to the point of fading from view, a kind of vanishing in plain sight.
I'm all at sea with much of Auden, for instance, but feel less of a fool saying so, because that kind of plain speaking is a refreshing feature of Auden's own literary criticism.
One investor is producing foie gras, several others are selling honey and traditional foods like injeera, a kind of flatbread.On a grassy plain a little way from the road, several brand new Toyotas are parked.
A poem can move me with a kind of vibration between the plain, familiar fact of my own breath and the tremendous force of something both true and made-up, outside of me and before me.
