Sentence examples for plain sense from inspiring English sources

"It makes plain sense," said Dan Thompson, McDonald's West Division president.

The plain sense of this provision contemplates, first, a determination, and then the sending of a notice.

Establishing the plain sense is only the first step; here the pitfalls are unrecognized technical language or terms of art.

It stood out to me because it revealed in a very plain sense the depth of the obstacles they face.

He was the evening's most ornate improviser, but his bond with the concert's house rhythm section — Peter Washington on bass, Willie Jones III on drums — made plain sense.

They swoop, dip and dive; just as you think you've guessed the next rhyme it whizzes off into fantasy - or stops you dead with good plain sense.

If he has really torn up the old map to strike out in some bold new direction he needs to give a plainer sense of it than can be gleaned from the slogans about modernisation and waffle about the "third way".So what is there to admire?

Similarly to reverence a problematic verse - I can imagine a much less tortuous and much closer-to-plain-sense reading of our notorious passage in Leviticus 18 22, the words traditionally understood as banning homosexuality, "Ve'et-zachar lo tishkav mishkevei ishah," as practically meaning "And one affined to the male shalt thou not forcibly cause to lie down with women".

"A return to national planning of school places is plain common sense, because it makes no sense, in times of austerity, to waste money building free schools which are not needed".

A natural, but incomplete, answer should certainly depend on chemical (and physical) intuition and plain common sense, although sometimes in science common sense has lead to wrong conclusions.

That might sound like plain common sense but in the heat of an ideologically-inflamed argument over the roots of terrorism, common sense can easily evaporate.(Photo credit: AFP).