The phrase "a plain statement of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to describe something that is straightforward or clear in its expression or meaning.
Example: "The report concluded with a plain statement of the findings, leaving no room for misinterpretation."
Alternatives: "a clear declaration of" or "a straightforward account of".
But at a time when "We're all doomed" felt like a plain statement of fact, the Osterley guerrillas fought back with every rusty rifle, milk-bottle Molotov and jam-pot bomb at their disposal.
You may find it helpful to make a plain statement of fact to yourself, such as "I forgot my cellphone at the house" or "You forgot our dinner plans," to help you keep things in perspective.
For more than half a century, it has been clear that all a plaintiff had to do to start a lawsuit was to file what the rules call "a short and plain statement of the claim" in a document called a complaint.
The complaint need only be a short and plain statement of the claim.
(I'm aware, by the way, that this plain statement of fact will generate an avalanche of angry mail. Irrational Clinton hatred remains a powerful force in American life).
Among other claims that seem wrong, the court offers several seemingly plain statements of a mistake so well known in antitrust that it has its own name: the Cellophane Fallacy, or the claim that a company must not have market power because it cannot raise its prices any higher, when that might just be because it is already maxing out the market power it has.
But if the facts are given as plain statements of fact, then they should be taken at face value.
Delmore understood this: Do you think they will be able to distinguish between the obfuscations, mystifications, efforts at humor, and plain statements of fact?
But all ends happily when Jack's plain statements of the seemingly impossible facts are proved true by the professor.
To be followed by a pure, plain statement, full of the clipped sharp tone of the Anglo-Saxon.
