The phrase "a plain life" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a lifestyle that is simple, uncomplicated, or free from extravagance.
Example: "After years of chasing success, she decided to embrace a plain life, focusing on what truly mattered to her."
Alternatives: "a simple life" or "an uncomplicated life".
Rather, she has clung to something that our hyperactive, hyperbolic, message-spewing digital age has lost, namely the virtue of a plain life based on knowledge, work and constancy.
They hold too much malice -- Jealousy deep down in their heart for the few Negroes who tries... they know within themselves that they're doing the wrong things, but expects everybody just because he is a Negro to give up everything he has struggled for in life such as a decent family -- a living, a plain life -- the respect..
One of the reasons I was an outcast in Davos, and played alone all the time, was because I grew up around farmers, who led a very plain life.
That may or may not be, but the essence of essences is to be a sheath, an envelope of just "plain life".
Yet the intellectual dazzle that remains with Demy's first films is in the boldness with which plain life is transcended by wall-to-wall music.
In the galleries, on the street, at Max's, Reno sees performance "of a nature so subtle . . . that one was left unsure if the thing observed was performance or plain life".
'How you can take a plain, maybe painful, life and paint it in bright colours.
Actually, what irks me even more is that he seems to have thrown all of us who practice yoga for exercise, an uplifting experience and just a plain old better life under the nirvana bus too.
Lead a plain and simple life, disdain anything added by the way of decoration.
If you carry on as a victim, you will remain overwhelmed by nostalgia and "what if's" and that's a plain waste of life.
In those places, as on the abyssal plains, life is not a dominant condition.
