Sentence examples for a plain act of from inspiring English sources

It tended to portray McCartney as controlling, egotistical, and superficial: the man who put French lyrics in the Beatles Michellee "as a plain act of social climbing", and was driven to make every Beatles album from Revolver onwards "an album with no one on it but Paul".

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.

Get a plain bit of paper.

(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 only debate, then, might be between calling it "cyberwarfare" or just a plain-vanilla "act of war". Either way, we would agree that we had been attacked.

A: "The act of struggle.

2. As much as possible, a consumer or employee arbitration agreement should be written in plain English, as, for example, documents issued by federal executive agencies are required to be prepared under the Plain Writing Act of 2010.

Plain Writing Act of 2010.

Congress got into the act and passed the Plain Writing Act of 2010 to make it easier for the general public to understand government documents.

Is that awkward sonic jump the product of lousy editing, a dwindling budget, plain carelessness, or an act of dadaist intent?