The effect on pupils is plain to hear.
In Edward Gardner's concert with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, it followed Dukas's ravishing poème dansé La Péri and Szymanowski's Stabat Mater, and the connections between the three works were plain to hear.
Call me naïve, young, or just plain monkey hear monkey.
This was plain to hear at the free Fred Perry party they played on Brick Lane on Saturday (see pics here).
"It's a pity Brigid is such a plain child," she heard an aunt confide to her mother.
All the waste and incompetence of the ID card scheme becomes plain when you hear people's stories about their contact with the new UK Borders Agency.
Like Walter Winchell and Gabriel Heatter before him, he personalized the radio news with his right-wing opinions, but laced them with his own trademarks: a hypnotic timbre, extended pauses for effect, heart-warming tales of average Americans and folksy observations that evoked the heartland, family values and the old-fashioned plain talk one heard around the dinner table on Sunday.
Its first readers praised the poem in varying, even opposing ways — where one heard Anglo-Saxon grit, another heard refreshingly plain speech; where one found heartfelt expression, another found allusive mastery.
The idea that you could somehow make money off of bleaching your own asshole, and that you'd accuse somebody of doing so in front of a roomful citizens during a city hearing, is plain weird, not to mention just highly inappropriate for someone who holds a public office.
And the best small sign of all is always when we hear the plain truth about a public issue being plainly spoken.
