Sentence examples for instances of plain from inspiring English sources

Amazing instances of plain speaking, noted in the daily press.

By W. E. Farbstein The New Yorker, November 16, 1929 P. 28 Amazing instances of plain speaking, noted in the daily press.

The word embraces unfathomable horrors and everyday mishaps; natural disasters, political atrocities and instances of plain bad luck are all commonly described as tragic.

But caginess, or self-consciousness, quickly set in, and he wrote to Howells that "an autobiography is the truest of all books: for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines".

While today's theme is "go on the offense," we have to point out one instance of just plain "being offensive".

I'm all at sea with much of Auden, for instance, but feel less of a fool saying so, because that kind of plain speaking is a refreshing feature of Auden's own literary criticism.

The mystery of plain stuff.

Getting bored of plain almonds?

27 A systematic review of plain packaging studies has outlined three main benefits of plain packaging.

A slice of plain toast.

(118 ml) of plain yogurt.