For me, it wasn't entirely plain – but the demonstration of humiliation and power was crystal-clear.
Yet in the shadows of an illegal demonstration, plain-clothes men in an unmarked car spooked other foreign reporters with more experience than me of Iran.
That, I suppose, is about as plain-spoken a demonstration as could be imagined of what is meant by art that is challenging or demanding.
It has taken the overweening performer Anthony Bourdain to turn my good, plain meals into a demonstration of virility.
Still, that woman near me was saying "It's a comedy" for a little too long, and although this could have been, and probably was, a demonstration of plain old-fashioned insensitivity, it suggests that those who have attuned themselves to the "total" comedy of the last few years may not know when to stop laughing.
Unarmed but furious, grieving locals denounced the visitors for a demonstration they found "plain disgusting and heartless".
On one occasion, he was stopped during a demonstration by a plain clothes policeman who checked his identity documents.
Milk bulked in smoked containers had significantly lower microbial loads compared to the milk bulked in plain-water-washed containers, a demonstration of the antimicrobial effect of smoking.
11.53am: Dannatt reveals that an equipment demonstration was organised on Salisbury Plain to show the problems with vehicles to the then defence procurement minister Lord Drayson.
Public outcry slammed Pepsi for being against demonstrations, anti-democracy, and just plain insensitive.
"My response was that under no circumstances do I consider it appropriate to deploy plain clothes police officers into a protest of demonstration scenario".
