Neanderthal masculine possessive instincts alienate McClane from Holly initially, but those very same plain-guy atavistic impulses are what wow her, and everybody else as the film goes on.
It's a kind of fiction, he suggests, uniquely suited to a country often shaped by "a symbiotic tension between a rigid, obsolescent order of values and a more 'modern,' disenchanted, pragmatic, and intellectually mobile emergent one exemplified by the observer(s)." The narrators are plain modern guys, and they look in wonder at the shining archaic hero.
Its members are Portuguese, Salvadoran, Mexican, Peruvian, Cuban and Puerto Rican, and there is also a "plain white guy" on keyboards.
For the warring Jets and Sharks, that means, for the most part, plain urban guy-wear — distressed, boot-cut jeans, faded dark T-shirts — accented with a few pops of color.
You can tell by the way he feigns inattention as the doors close and the two plain-clothes guys pull out their identification badges; he acts as if he is too lost in thought to notice them, staring blankly ahead, his body gone nervous and tense.
The text makes Aaron a blunt, frank, plain-spoken guy who can't and won't pretend.
The approved story line about Mr. Bush is that he's a bluff, honest, plain-spoken guy, and anecdotes that fit that story get reported.
The plain-looking guy or the middle-aged blonde who in the end solves all of life's problems and finds the murderer.
