Sentence examples for plain act from inspiring English sources

This plain act of censorship was not isolated.

It tended to portray McCartney as controlling, egotistical, and superficial: the man who put French lyrics in the Beatles Michellee "as a plain act of social climbing", and was driven to make every Beatles album from Revolver onwards "an album with no one on it but Paul".

Obviously it's for the lawyers to work out the details, but it seems to me what he must have been granted was more a method of identifying and later purchasing a song, not the plain act of tagging and downloading later.

But it's no wonder: most of that worst of human nature is found on television today where "best" friends stab each other in the back, steal each other's mates, compete for jobs, sex, and adoration, or just plain act out and misbehave--all while claiming the people with whom, and at whom, they are misbehaving, are their BFFs.

(I wouldn't mind being able to sync my regular phone to iTunes, or buy a cheap MP3 player that works with my iTunes library, but Apple may convince the courts that lack of competition is better for us.) As for its upgrades to block Palm, the question is whether, in fact, they really were product improvements, or just plain acts of exclusion.

The Piedmont and coastal plains act as collecting basins for the rainfall and runoff water from the southern tableland.

"The flood plains acted like a kidney to the river — they filtered out the pollutants," he said.

But it is a plain fact that the act of collective worship is not altogether unproblematic in our schools today.

This would be one way of enforcing land use laws and regulations to discourage human encroachment into wetlands and flood plains (that act as buffers and filters of flood waters).

They are just doing their thing, and they are just doing plain righteous acts.

Mr. Checker's show is a lighthearted nostalgia act plain and simple.