Sentence examples for rather than plain from inspiring English sources

He said the business was swinging heavily toward fashion rather than plain T-shirts.

Sir Alex Ferguson's complaints that Everton had "just lumped the ball" to Fellaini were presumably disingenuous, rather than plain stupid.

Mr Genro also seems to think that Mr Battisti was convicted of political crimes, rather than plain murder.Two sentiments underlie Mr Genro's reticence.

But some federal regulators and consumer advocates worry that companies are steering low-income consumers into a relatively expensive product rather than plain vanilla checking accounts.

Did the Best Actor award in 1936, for "The Story of Louis Pasteur," go to Frederich Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund, rather than plain Paul Muni?

Regulators and executives have tried to reassure investors, but been met with dark mutterings about insurers' reluctance to mark assets fully to market and their habit of inflating their capital with hybrid debt rather than plain equity.

One major criticism of the Geithner plan was that it would permit less regulation of some of the more complicated derivatives that are custom-written, rather than plain-vanilla instruments, and would open a loophole that would keep much of the market unsupervised and opaque.

The government lawyers suggested that the police car the Proettas saw was the one being driven by Inspector Revagliatte, carrying four uniformed police officers rather than plain-clothed soldiers, but Proetta was adamant that the lawyers' version did not make sense.

Often, it is a case of what it chooses to omit rather than get plain wrong.

Images like this might help, and give the sense of the music being organic, visceral – rather than just plain difficult.

Because such tables can be stolen, passwords are normally encrypted in the form of a "hash" of the user's authentication details rather than in plain text.