Their story is so rarely explained without disinformation that it still seems startling when it is stated plainly.
That central contention is stated plainly in the book's introduction, where Grigoriadis declares that, when it comes to campus sexual assault, "the risk is college itself".
Her culinary crusade was stated plainly in her introduction: This is a book for the servantless American cook who can be unconcerned on occasion with budgets, waistlines, time schedules, children's meals, the parent-chauffeur-den mother syndrome or anything else which might interfere with the enjoyment of producing something wonderful to eat.
Gissing's own view of female emancipation was stated plainly in a letter of June 1893 to the German writer Eduard Bertz: "My demand for female 'equality' simply means that I am convinced there will be no social peace until women are intellectually trained very much as men are...
But while the gender of the perpetrators is obscured, the gender of the victims is stated plainly.
Next, it should be stated plainly in the body of the regulation as well that all fishing vessels are required to land sharks with their fins naturally attached, something that is only implied at present.
There's not a whole lot revealed, but it is stated very plainly that only two active players can be tracked at any given moment.
These themes, and this truth, is stated more plainly in Go Set a Watchman, which is set in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education.
That principle, once it is openly stated, plainly has its arse on backwards: there is no shame in engaging with an outrage halfway across the world.
Blodget takes a lot of flak for his iconoclasm, but the fact is, he's only stating plainly what other editors think in private.
"There was," he states plainly, "nothing original about his message and Muhammad never claimed there was.
