In their effort to put forth a plain, unvarnished record of what Wittgenstein did and said, some of these memoirs have almost the feeling of gospels - hushed, reverential, proprietary.
"The Pianist" was similarly flat, but its plain record of circumstance seemed a matter of honor, as if to inflict ornamentation — any adventure in style — upon a tale of the Holocaust would be insulting.
No breast-beating for Levi, no look-at-me, no violin song, only a plain, thoughtful record, which by its very modesty stunned the mind.
And if you're willing to go through the effort of buying a plain black record that's less practical and costs more than a digital file just to show love and support for good music, then that's also great.
The sediments underlying the present delta plain record three depositional systems since the last glacial maximum: fluvial, estuarine, and deltaic, in ascending order.
As expressions of extreme experience, both cinematic modes — Stevens's plain record of horror and Huston's fictional re-creation of it — have their advocates as the right way, the only way.
Much of the landscape photography is just that it's of relatively little cinematic inspiration, falling between plain recording and familiarly picturesque compositions.
Even the plain recording of everyday facts allows the reader to enter directly into the writer's mind and the world in which he lives, and this, of course, can contain big surprises.Paul Morand made his name in the 1920s and 1930s as the author of two finely stylised novellas and several books about his career as a diplomat.
A survey of church plate within the Bangor diocese in 1906 recorded a plain silver chalice dated 1866 67, and a silver paten with an inscription recording that it was a gift from Sir Arthur Owen in 1753.
