Sentence examples for plain sentence from inspiring English sources

In his acceptance speech to the G.O.P. convention in Philadelphia, Governor Bush repeated compassionate conservatism, defining it in a plain sentence: "It is to put conservative values and conservative ideas into the thick of the fight for justice and opportunity".

There is no word to say his wife is dead, but we hear it unmistakably in that deceptively plain sentence, "I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor".

Plain sentences can be confusing, too.

The intensity, quantity, and even duration of action contained in these plain sentences could be a film in itself.

It fits seamlessly into the simple, plain sentences of the rest of the paragraph, with a nice musical echo of "mowing" and "motionless" and "closed".

The book is rather flatly written for the first quarter, in short, plain sentences, and there is little of Roth's usual fastidious attention to small detail.

This seems right: Eggleston's images are an equivalent to the Big American Novel, a novel largely of the south, written in terse, plain sentences.

Nice plain sentences, and, given that I've never read & 8220Giovanni's Room& 8221 in English, I'm getting to fill an important gap.

First, the document was segmented into plain sentences.

These children are able to properly discriminate this emotion if questions are formulated in short and plain sentences [ 18] Gender differences do not appear to be significant in terms of anger [ 13].

DAVID DENBY: I think Roger writes a strong, direct, plain English sentence, and I admire the Catholicity of his taste.