Sentence examples for plainly means from inspiring English sources

Klinenberg plainly means for "Fighting for Air" to serve as a "Fast Food Nation" for media reformers, who are now hoping to persuade the F.C.C. to establish tighter limits on how many broadcast properties a single company can own.

In presenting the work, and other, lesser but not entirely miserable examples of "great German art," Peters plainly means to disrupt complacent assumptions about a moment when people, if untouched by the terror, might still have condoned some aspect of the Reich.

The allegations of the bill may be summed up as follows: The plaintiff is subject to none of the disqualifications set forth in the Constitution of Alabama and is entitled to vote,—entitled, as the bill plainly means, under the Constitution as it is.

Paradoxically, Undset was at once her nation's most conspicuous violator of traditional sex roles and (in a series of notorious antifeminist jeremiads) their most vocal champion; in "Jenny" she plainly means to show that even extremely strong, virtuous and intelligent women can fall -- and that even the meekest of men can be the instruments of their doom.

This plainly means something to producers.

It plainly means nothing at all of any consequence.

The boys and girls in the show plainly mean no harm.

"The expression can plainly mean somewhat different things to different people.

Mick plainly meant business, and the crowd of 15,000 showed its appreciation and maybe awe.

But the getup is plainly meant to look cheap and tarty, not upmarket.

As opposed, he plainly meant, to Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was born in 1890.