I can't put it any more plainly to you: I had no idea the ad was going to run".
To equivocate is closer to prevaricate, dissimulate, which mean "to obscure so as to deceive," or more plainly, "to lie," and to dither, hesitate, falter is "to be irresolute in action, unsteady in belief".
Because I also traveled the world with the President and First Lady, had an opportunity to engage them at certain reflective points, and to ask him, especially, about his personal and sometimes unofficial views on various topics, his guarded and complicated persona seemed more plainly accessible to me.
The first time we met, on Columbia's main campus, Hirsch put it to me more plainly: "We have to stop working one penis at a time!" SHIFT was born out of a crisis.
For if coolly and distinctly she had said on entering: 'Nothing doing!' as barmaids will to the enterprising, she couldn't more plainly have conveyed to the other women that she had no use for their treasured rubbish.
The numbers and the chart above show this to be a recipe for inelastic response to recession, or, more plainly, a great way to cut some big holes in the safety net.
As Ms. Cook has aged, she has gained the freedom to be more plainly conversational, which is all to the good.
Garrett Jones, the Central Intelligence Agency chief in Mogadishu during the disastrous American expedition to Somalia in 1993, put it more plainly: "There are going to be screw-ups, mistakes, confusion and missteps.
To put it more plainly: My kids do not deserve to be called dogs because of their racial heritage, and I think David Brooks and the New York Times editorial staff owe them and all biracial children and adults an apology.
Joe Skrzynski spelled it out more plainly: "We have five million to spend on the design work while Utzon is around — we've got that approved — to warehouse his intellect, his thinking".
In some cases (coercion, deceit) the persons held responsible would naturally be said to have caused the persons influenced to act as they did, while in others they would not, though the weaker interpersonal relationship is in some respects analogous to more plainly causal relationships.
