Not everything was plain sailing.
You would rather everything be plain sailing, but it never is, is it?
Everything was plain and honest -- just like the broiled and burnt cheese-and-tomato sandwiches she then served for lunch.
Imagine reading a blog, or a Facebook News Feed, where there were no links, and everything was plain text.
His ambivalence about his impending departure -- about everything, in fact -- is plain to see: there are not one but two Gareths onstage at all times, the public and the private, the real Gareth and the imaginary, tougher-tongued character he'd like to be.
All that is beautiful, all that is plain, everything that nourishes or causes to wither.
But with so much having changed in the past fortnight, it is plain that everything, over the next four months, is up for grabs.
Don't grab everything in your closet that is plain; sometimes you need a few basics.
And trying to forbid crypto altogether is plain stupid, since everything is already in the public domain (you even have open source encrypted messaging apps).
