In the Moscow hotel room, Gurov notes that "he had grown so much older, so much plainer during the last few years", and goes on to observe of Anna Sergeyevna: "The shoulders on which his hands rested were warm and quivering.
When comparing the single and multiplayer modes, GameSpy felt that the single-player portion was "less inspiring, mostly because of the extremely shallow learning curve", with the online multiplayer being "so smooth, so challenging, and so much plain-old-fun".
So much for plain sailing.
So much is plain exhausting and exacting and every stupid reason loves its reason, those hundred little dodges that get us in the end.
Its "original" flavor is smooth and tangy, and tastes like nothing so much as plain yogurt with a small amount of sugar.
The daubs of quince, Mission figs (which were good poached in port but would have been so much better plain), and walnut-leaf curlicues — oh, yeah, and the piece of blue-cheese cheesecake they accompany — are almost more work than they're worth.
In one instance, construction of a new housing development forced nearby residents who had lived there for over 20 years, to buy mandatory flood insurance because the development had erased so much flood plain that nearby neighborhoods were brought at risk.
It is not so much the plain postoperative functional score that is important but rather the gain in function, as a measure for comparison of the preoperative and postoperative state (the "Delta constant").
Indeed, she said, in her 32 years in the business, "I have never received so much unsolicited, plain-old-everyday-American correspondence" praising a campaign.
He was not so much hiding in plain sight – nothing was "plain" where he was concerned – as turning the whole ecology of self-presentation inside out.
