Sentence examples for as plain in from inspiring English sources

The sequence is as plain in its pathos as it is effervescent in its comedy; it darkens the pursuit of pleasure with the shadow of tragedy, and culminates in the cautionary wisdom of steering clear of the mighty and the entitled.

Almost the entire output of Warner Bros in the 1930s nods to the debilitating after-effects of Black Tuesday in 1929; it's there as plain as day in everything from the kid-hobo drama Wild Boys of the Road to The Roaring Twenties.

There was a pattern, as plain as day in retrospect, yet the vaunted American intelligence community simply could not see it.

It's certainly in Augustine, on whom he undoubtedly depended, but it is also as plain as a pikestaff in (say) Anselm of Canterbury, and Thomas Aquinas.

Their home is hardly as plain as Aunt May's in the comic book, nor as modest as the two-story home shown in the film.

The reason for the stagnation is as plain as the concrete walls in front of the Oil Ministry or the thump of the mortar rounds here at night.

As plain people in this age of Dharma Decline we simply cannot apprhehend ultimate reality in any other form.

When the British abolished the brigade, they discontinued the rank of brigadier general but revived it as plain brigadier in 1928.

E-mail messages can be formatted as plain text in a variety of type faces and sizes, or as greeting cards.

Experimental controls were defined as plain cells in media and pure media with and without nanoparticles.

It was, in essence, as plain and dutiful in its purpose as a sundae should be, and yet it intimated just how many possibilities there are with such a dessert.