The phrase "a plain act" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action that is straightforward, simple, or without any embellishments.
Example: "His decision to help was a plain act of kindness that spoke volumes about his character."
Alternatives: "a simple act" or "a straightforward act".
But it is a plain fact that the act of collective worship is not altogether unproblematic in our schools today.
Obviously it's for the lawyers to work out the details, but it seems to me what he must have been granted was more a method of identifying and later purchasing a song, not the plain act of tagging and downloading later.
This plain act of censorship was not isolated.
But it's no wonder: most of that worst of human nature is found on television today where "best" friends stab each other in the back, steal each other's mates, compete for jobs, sex, and adoration, or just plain act out and misbehave--all while claiming the people with whom, and at whom, they are misbehaving, are their BFFs.
(I wouldn't mind being able to sync my regular phone to iTunes, or buy a cheap MP3 player that works with my iTunes library, but Apple may convince the courts that lack of competition is better for us.) As for its upgrades to block Palm, the question is whether, in fact, they really were product improvements, or just plain acts of exclusion.
The Piedmont and coastal plains act as collecting basins for the rainfall and runoff water from the southern tableland.
Instagram's messaging section, which we'll see shown off Thursday, could be a plain Jane non-disappearing-act affair.
The reason why there is a genuine worry about special pleading is that one can always find some difference between this act and a plain duty, and there seems to be no way, within the resources available to particularism, to prevent such differences from being appealed to by those who, in bad faith, want to let themselves off the moral hook.
Act like a plain ol' camper, not a special role or slasher!
"The flood plains acted like a kidney to the river — they filtered out the pollutants," he said.
