Sentence examples for if plainly from inspiring English sources

You enter at street level and climb a grand if plainly made staircase to reach the sanctuary.

("Intercourse" encompassed all manner of dealings and exchanges: trade, conversation, letter-writing, and even — if plainly outside the scope of Marshall's meaning — sex).

She called the surveillance of Petrobras, if confirmed, "plainly illegitimate".

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

Only if Bush plainly asserts our national interests will his first foray to Europe be judged a success.

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.

He did all sorts, and he would say: 'Yeah, but we're your members, you have to support us.' I said, 'Nobody is going to listen to me if no matter whether you're right or wrong, I say you're right.' How can anybody respect the PFA if we plainly see something that's bad for the image of the game and not appreciate that it is wrong".

Williams has also left a wider, if less plainly manifest legacy as a metaphysician.

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.

If you plainly don't know them then it could be a chance to get to know them.