Mr. Obama did not mention his rival in his speech to about 5,000 troops, but, plainly referring to Republicans including Mr. Romney, he did say that the soldiers should ignore political talk of major cuts ahead in military spending.
The poem's title, Gilmour admits, is "an unfortunate and perhaps tasteless form of words," but he nevertheless argues that the word " 'white' here plainly refers to civilization and character more than to the color of men's skins".
And the material plainly refers to the horror of tarring and feathering, an American practice dating to the Revolution.
2014 also taught us, as originally reported by c't magazine, that CSEC hijacks computers around the world to build botnets of zombified computers that they can then use to attack targets—as part of a strategy they plainly refer to as a "target the world" tactic.
A half dozen other rooms hold several dozen works from these and others of the six artists, but among the most striking is South African Billie Zangewa's The Rebirth of Black Venus, a silk tapestry that plainly refers to Botticelli's Birth of Venus.
She doesn't want to talk about it, except that she plainly does, referring often to the necessity, for an MP who is also a mother, of having your children near your work rather than your constituency ("The idea of having my children in Basingstoke, which is an hour and a half from here…"), of living in a "three-generation household".
In the later work of Picasso and Braque, it is again possible to construe their pictorial code as referring plainly to the objective world in the case of Braque, to still life chosen with an appreciation of household things and, with Picasso, to emotive yet enigmatic human subjects as well.
Francis referred indirectly, but plainly, to Abdel Fattah Egyptsi, Egypt's authoritarian President, saying, "History does not forgive those who preach justice but then practice injustice.
Aquinas wavers between suggesting that the use of lethal public force, e.g. in capital punishment, intends ("is referred to") justice rather than killing, and plainly accepting that in such cases death is indeed intended.
There are times when a manual earth-restructuring implement is best referred to as a spade, so let us speak plainly.
