Sentence examples for was too plain from inspiring English sources

At the beginning, it was too plain to be offensive.

To him, a black wool dress with a white collar was too plain.

She also had smart-looking wool trousers and a little cap-sleeve sack dress that other designers might worry was too plain.

The Time Inc. executives said advertisers were not committing to the fall issues because the magazine was too plain to attract readers.

Meryl Streep, the other eminence, who always affects a "who, me?" attitude at the Oscars, was too plain: her off-the-shoulder Lanvin top looked like it belonged on a couch, in a living room (which is perhaps where she would rather have been).

He expressed with stinging clarity what he liked and disliked, but he was too plain-dealing, too far removed from sycophancy, to be fully predictable in his tastes.

But that statement would perhaps be too plain.

"I think they're too plain for the judges," she said.

They were too plain to use as ornaments, too few to make a dress.

But aside from its vivid wallpaper, the furnishings were too plain to be memorable: more office-space chic than boutique.

But it can also be too plain, with nothing behind a classroom display.