Sentence examples for if not plainly from inspiring English sources

The feel is introspective, if not plainly melancholic like gazing out over flat water.

At ten, I didn't know anything at all about romantic love, but the idea of physical beauty was so elusive and intoxicating to me, the thought that a person might willfully subvert it challenge its stronghold, deliberately reconfigure it, render it differently seemed courageous, if not plainly revolutionary.

The predictive success of "pocketbook voting" for aggregate outcomes in PMV is striking because its predictions are rather imprecise if not plainly wrong for individual votes (see Appendix A for distributions of individual votes).

If not plainly evident (covered, painted, etc)., again, lightly indicate the locations with a pencil.

But even if the statute did not plainly purport to justify and require the threatened action, or if the bill fairly taken did not import a denial of the constitutionality of the law as applied to this case, the plaintiff still would be entitled to come into a Court of the United States to prevent such an alleged violation of its constitutional rights.

Congress’ goal of curtailing the interstate drug trade would not plainly be thwarted if it could not apply the CSA to patients like Monson and Raich.

Polymorphisms with theta compressed clusters were not used if the compression was such that any homozygote call was not plainly distinguishable.

"Plainly saying" entails not plainly saying.

And now here was Rowan Hagood's father, wearing a wool overcoat that smelled like the cold air, a man who kept tilting his phone in his lap to check the screen, as if Frisch couldn't plainly see what he was doing.

That simply isn't fair if you haven't plainly stated your wishes.

But he has in the past been robust in his dismissal of the accusations and is well-known for a blunt, if not quite relevant and plainly questionable, assertion: "Communists do not murder people".