Sentence examples for proved plain from inspiring English sources

Modlin said the state had not proved "plain indifference" on the company's part, the foundation of the willful violations.

The best opener we sampled, clean, shiny black mussels in a bowl of light tomato broth, proved a plain but competent effort.

Two octahedral Fe3+ positions with close isomeric displacements and quadrupole splittings were proved for plain cement using Mössbauer spectroscopy.

This week's recipe proves it plain.

Which proved, by contrast, plain pedestrian, with the terrific Birmingham Symphony Chorus outsinging indifferent soloists, again calling into question Rattle's taste in singers.

Transhumant herds from the coastal plain proved to be particularly vulnerable to raids on the plateau during the two years of survey.

The plains proved well suited to horse breeding, and the Thessalians were strong in cavalry.

The results proved that combined surfaces (plain-hydrophobic or plain-hydrophilic surfaces) achieved higher CHF values.

Socialism for superior brains proved no match for plain-spoken common sense, at least when it came to the fundamental judgment call of the century.

To prove that the plain clothes were not exclusively for his gorgeous, young-Hollywood front-row guests Kate Bosworth and Naomi Watts, Mr. Costa used senior models like Kirsten McMenamy and Stella Tennant to celebrate womanhood.

But dire predictions from affected industries in the past have proved wildly exaggerated — or just plain wrong.