Sentence examples similar to plain but operative from inspiring English sources

The decor is plain but pleasant.

Mine is plain but spacious.

Wear plain but expensive clothes.

Be plain but hip and stylish.

Gary's commanding officer, Lt Armitage (Sam Reid), finds himself at odds with the furtive, plain-clothes intelligence operative Captain Browning Sean Harriss); and the Provisionals' fiercely committed Haggerty (Martin McCann) and the eerily blank-faced Sean Barry Keoghann) are plotting against their own chiefs.

Would George Bush even be provided with security or would plain-clothed operatives be sent to "spontaneously" attack him?

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But the operative word is "few".

But the operative word is "entirely".

But the operative word is "compressing".

But the operative word is safely.