If you are quite ugly I will guarantee that when we meet we have the time of our lives; if you are plain, of a moderate plainness, I will promise you not to be too damnably polite or stiff; but if you are beautiful Heaven help me; I shall shut up like a sea anemone".
Hopkinson and Haworth's pies have a very northern plainness about them – they are, in fact, no more than they claim to be: just cheese and onion, enclosed in pastry.
Social Security meets Wall Street Glorious dilemmas The law's fine line Everybody's butt Tom Daschle's hidden weapon ReprintsAnd yet, in a curious way, Mr Daschle's plainness distinguishes him.
Nick Clegg is another man of privilege, decency and plainness.
Commenting on the parties' hints at their negotiating stances, Gus O'Donnell, the civil servant who brokered the coalition deal in 2010 (and a trustee of The Economist), calls this "quite a lot of public foreplay .The sheer plainness of the main parties' programmes was highlighted by wackier manifesto offerings from the left-wing Greens and right-wing UK Independence Party (UKIP).
In the end, it is that plainness which makes the climax of the book such powerful reading the Paris riots into which he and his mother accidentally stumble.
Thirteenth-century dress was noted for its plainness.
The French, in the 13th century, were among the first to relieve the plainness of the chest with decoration, covering the planks with elaborate wrought-iron scrolls.
ʿAbd al-Muʾmin fully accepted the responsibilities of an art patron, but remembering the puritanical austerity of Ibn Tūmart, he sometimes imposed on the mosques built for him by Andalusian artisans a plainness that became more precious than the prevailing elaborate ornamentation.
Whereas McGuane's early novels are noted for their stylistic extravagance, a growing plainness of style developed in his later novels.
Plainness meant that painting, music, and the theatre were proscribed.
