Sentence examples for idea is plainly from inspiring English sources

The purpose of the thin idea is plainly political.

Some sort of Nordic idea is plainly at the heart of her new album, "Medúlla," which Elektra/ Atlantic will release at the end of the month.

If all rivers flow from one source, and the same is true in the case of the winds, there might be some truth in this theory; but if it is no more true in the one case than in the other, this ingenious idea is plainly false.

At Inside Housing, Jules Birch observes that no definition of "high value" is provided, but that the inspiration for this idea is plainly Policy Exchange's argument for flogging heaps the stuff its calls "expensive" when it becomes vacant in order to build more in poor areas.

It was now a matter of dealing with an entirely unfamiliar framework, with new ideas, accompanied by powerful arguments for them, some of which ideas were plainly unacceptable to a Christian for example, Aristotle's rejection of anything like divine providence, and his views on the eternity of the world (see William of Auvergne).

Her "D-Day" sign is indeed prominent in my local Oxfam shop, and any idea that finds its way from the busy South-east to where I live in sleepy north Herefordshire is plainly an idea with legs.

Testing newly made vaccine cultures is plainly a good idea.

It is plainly a good idea to strengthen policy co-ordination at the centre.

But what his ruling does is deprive the N.S.A. of the argument of obviousness: the idea that what it is doing is plainly legal, plainly necessary, and nothing for decent people to worry about.

But the idea that breaking for a meal hinders accomplishment is plainly wrong.

The new interim government under Iyad Allawi is plainly very keen to scotch such an idea.