Sentence examples for bare and plain from inspiring English sources
And then he took us to the movies: Pauline Kael once made gentle fun of Agee's favorite value-added words, from "bare and plain and true and honest" to "tender," "disciplined," "vigorous," "masculine" and "healthy".
Writer says the late James Agee might perhaps have brought out his full panoply of loving terms for it, because it is bare and plain and true and honest and, of course, tender and disciplined, and it isn't artificial or corrupt, and it doesn't exploit or overdramatize its subject... View Article Pauline Kael wrote for The New Yorker from 1967 until her retirement, in 1991.
Mr. Perrault restored what survived the reconstruction — paneled rooms on the upper floors that will be a restaurant complex run by the chef Alain Ducasse — then opened up spaces below by removing walls, leaving the perimeters plain and bare.
Keep it simple and plain.
For as far as the eye can see, the hills and plains are bare.
The floors are bare, the menu is plain and the 12 tables are covered with paper.
Plain and simple: branding.
Homework, plain and simple.
Temperament matters, plain and simple.
