Plain and natural character embodies their attitudes to nature and life.
Commonsense language meanwhile claims to be plain and natural, "conversational", but is often as constructed as asphalt, dreamed up in ad agencies or in the heart of government – sometimes both at the same time.
These stones may be plain and natural, but some stone may be "worked", meaning it has been shaped for decorative or functional purposes.
"Histories founded upon truth, and wrote in a plain, easie and natural Stile," he once wrote, "are Sirloins of beef plainly dressed, wholesome, hearty and nourishing to a robust and healthy Stomach, but those erected upon fiction, and stuffed with Bombast and fustian phrases, are vapid, windy, unwholesome and adulterated with your damn'd sauces and pickles".
A low-land flood plain and a natural levee have been selected for this purpose.
The annual flooding of the Mekong during the rainy season deposits a rich alluvial sediment that accounts for the fertility of the central plain and provides natural irrigation for rice cultivation.
A sophisticated flood control plan that kept further development out of the flood plain and incorporated natural drainage and parks was proposed by Harland Bartholomew, (the father of urban planning), and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., (son of the famed landscape architect who designed Central Park, Olmsted Jr. is remembered for his conservation work in national parks including Yosemite).
Cilmi in her plain black vest and natural make-up would look dated against Florence, Gaga, La Roux et al, who now dominate the charts.
Scottish politicians may have been helped, too, by learning their trade in the more sheltered and respectful environment of the Edinburgh parliament, which is a much plainer and more natural place than Westminster, as well as a less-scrutinised one.
The new rules, Congress said, should require the Corps and other federal agencies to give equal weight to less easily measurable benefits like wildlife habitat and to "nonstructural" solutions to flood control like preserving wetlands, flood plains and other "natural systems".
The design of the original house was consistent with the design principles of the Prairie School, emulating the flatness of the plains and the natural limestone outcroppings of the Driftless Area.
