Sentence examples for plain figure from inspiring English sources

Admittedly, when measured against the charm and charisma of a gifted U.S presidential leader, a former career diplomat from an Asian country will cut a plain figure.

These sandstones constitute the dominant substrate throughout the Waratah's distribution but in places are overlain by other rocks on which the species does not grow (such as the Triassic shales of the Cumberland Plain; Figure 2d).

Gist, who speaks with a Midwestern twang and knows how to turn a rococo phrase, also insists on plain figures to back up whatever he says.

Burberry has a long tradition of accessibility — "Everything will be marked in plain figures throughout the establishment," one of the company's early ads promised — and Bailey sees himself as a custodian of the idea that nice things aren't solely for people "with gazillions of pounds".

With some telling examples from medicine, plain figures, and tables, Lockshin brings the reader to understand that statistics provide powerful tools for detecting correlations and also for corroborating hypotheses and discarding fragile ones: A baby born in December gets larger as the weather grows warmer.

The sides of the brass memorial are decorated with quatrefoil- and shield-shaped ornamentation, which enhance the comparatively plain figures.

The most attractive types for both Russian and Japanese respondents were waterfalls, mountains, and lakes; the least attractive were waterless plains (Figure 2a, Tables 3 and 4).

The biomass hierarchy among size groups was similar between the 2 studies: macrofauna dominated the shelves and bacteria and meiofauna dominated the abyssal plains (Figure 2).

The two sets of parents and the various circus folk are all conventional and "penny-plain" figures.

Participants who had previously viewed and rated a plain packaging image (ie, pack B or D; see figure 1) received plain image response options, and those who had previously rated a branded packaging image (ie, pack A or C) received branded image response options at this question.

There's nothing wrong with using the game of exquisite corpse as a jumping-off point for hybridized, uncanny and just plain weird figure drawing.