Sentence examples for plain working from inspiring English sources

But "she said, 'Lee, if you're going to direct me, you've got to understand that I'm just a plain working girl,' " he said.

"In illness and in health, he was just plain working harder than everyone else on what needed doing," said White House scientist-in-chief John Holdren on Sunday at a memorial service for Schneider.

"I forsook the company and the dinner-parties, the port-wine and champagne of the middle classes, and devoted my leisure-hours almost exclusively to intercourse with plain working men," he explained.

On a fall Saturday afternoon, when much of this frenetic city was out shopping or doing deals or just plain working, about 100 young movie addicts crammed into a salon screening of a hot movie.

Vladimir Mena, 17, of White Plains, works at a gift shop in the Galleria.

Well, making a dance is just plain work like anything else.

"It is not quite satisfying to be told that growth comes in tiny increments, during long days of plain work," the former MoMA curator John Szarkowski said of Adams's legacy.

Showing the black-clad minister mid-stroke, against a nearly monochromatic silvery lake and sky, this wonderfully plain work is contemporary with Goya, and a bit ahead of Caspar David Friedrich.

"There the poorest working woman in the country can go, whether en train or in her plain work-day dress, touch the hand and gaze into the plain but kindly sympathetic face of the President's wife," have tea in the Blue Room, and then go "promenading" through the state rooms, "engaged in conversation, not exclusively upon the topics of fashion and dress".

First-year students will require: Uniform Three Sets of Plain Work Robes (Black) One Plain Pointed Hat (Black) for day wear One Pair of Protective Gloves (dragon hide or similar) One Winter Cloak (Black, silver fastenings) Please note that all student's clothes should carry name-tags at all times.

Not "better" or "worse"; just plain work better in the modern world.