it's plainly obvious

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

This is not conspiracy theory — it's plainly obvious to anyone examining the situation.

But it's plainly obvious that LinkedIn users don't nearly use the status feature for mass communication as frequently as they use Twitter or Facebook for the same purpose.

It's plainly obvious that Facebook is growing fast in India and could quite possibly overtake Orkut in the next few months.

Although Ukip's relationship with the media has never been rosy - the party often complains that it is being persecuted as unpleasant comments by its members are unearthed - it is plainly obvious that they are being taken much more seriously than they used to be.

It is plainly obvious that its technology needs to be fixed before it is parsed out to other companies and media corporations.

They inserted the following text into the specific paragraph that addresses debt management: "Maintaining sustainable debt levels is the responsibility of the borrowing countries … " It is plainly obvious why this language is harmful and, given the situation in Greece, callous for the EU to even propose it.

"It is plainly obvious that aircraft and huge gas containers are a potentially lethal mix.

Even after Trinity it was plainly obvious what would happen, tens of thousands of people would die.

"This is in direct response to the changing drugs landscape, the continued rise in drug related deaths and the recognition that current services do not meet the needs of all the people who need support". Drug and alcohol charity Addaction said the deaths were "a terrible waste of life", saying it was "plainly obvious that the current system isn't working".

This same thin veneer of plausible deniability was used by Reagan, back in the 1980s -- even though it was plainly obvious what we were trying to accomplish.

Despite it being plainly obvious (what candidate is not flawed?), it is a often considered a duty to vote in a free society.