The Tartan Army's booing of Liechtenstein's national anthem – which shares a tune with God Save The Queen, you see – was as predictable as it was plain stupid.
As it was plain that the robbers might have fled to another state, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation entered the case the day after the robbery.
And the new Palestinian state could be helped to absorb those who want to make the West Bank their permanent home.Israel, too, might well be willing to absorb a limited number, so long as it was plain that it did so voluntarily, for humanitarian reasons.
It is all too human to want to look for an easy way out, to protect revered institutions and ourselves, and to convince ourselves, as it is plain these scout leaders did two decades ago and more, that silence could somehow be best for all concerned (in the words of one leader, from a letter quoted in The New York Times, "If it don't stink, don't stir it").
He was promptly sacked for pursuing this newfangled passion, although, as he now says, "It was plain as day to me, this is what Walt was waiting for".
Right next to Lollapalooza and Snoop Dogg, there it was, plain as day: "Bowl with Jesus".
But the difference with Steve was, it was plain as day for quite awhile that something was going on and it didn't look so good.
Speaking of the project, Mr. Arboleda quoted his critics as saying, "It's plain silly, what a waste of time and money and resources".
Peter Woit, a mathematical physicist at Columbia University in New York, was quoted in Nature as saying: "It's plain obvious that there was either zero, or at best very poor, peer review, of his own papers".
Then, as far as he is concerned, it is plain and simple fog, requiring a car's ankle-height fog lamps to illuminate the road.
I didn't enjoy the second Serious Sam nearly as much as the first, but it's plain fact that the graphics are way better.
