I can tell you the exact date that I began to think of myself in the first-person plural — as a superorganism, that is, rather than a plain old individual human being.
This species of entertainer has mostly vanished from the show business landscape, where the wondrous capabilities of plain-old human beings are increasingly being enhanced, if not replaced, by the prodigious gadgetry of the digital age.
Justine Roberts, the founder of Mumsnet, said: "There's no escaping the pain of a miscarriage, but for this to be compounded by lack of treatment, pain relief, good care or just plain human kindness is completely unacceptable.
When Katie observes that 'it seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity.
It sort of makes sense -- when you show you're down-to-earth, light-hearted, and just a plain human like they are, it takes away any possible intimidation and stress.[2].
Brown struggles to communicate in plain, human English; Cameron is better, having mastered the simple, fluent sentence, but leaves doubts as to whether his words are merely those of a slick salesman.
What, for many years, he has been short on is plain human feeling.
Why can't liberals and progressives be just plain human and REAL in the face of what's going on around them?
SOMETIMES a study emerges whose implications for human beings are just plain disagreeable to untangle.
Not only is that just plain human (who wants to work all the time?), but it's also healthier; less stress and more work-life balance means greater productivity when we're at work, better immune systems, and a decreased risk of heart attack.
