He wrote that had the button depicted swastikas, a Confederate flag, or a burning cross, it would have been "plainly offensive" and he would have ruled differently.
If Hastings gave them nightmares, they have plainly never recovered.
Solution: Keep the original purpose alive by stating it and writing it down -- If I had to do it over again, I would have said very plainly -- Please keep in mind, our purpose is to make visitors feel welcome.
That, plainly, would have been a lot worse than 9/11.
All very laudable, one would have thought, but the government plainly took fright.
That's not strictly true: plainly we would have dropped any of our artists' covers, if, for argument's sake, they had called for the expulsion of all Muslims.
Plainly enough, they would have perfectly good refugee claims.
Plainly, academic life would have been too much of a backwater.
Had Cubic Zirconia emerged sometime between 1983 and 1986, the era that it most plainly covets, it would have found a neat home amid the steamy electro-funk of the day.
If he'd filibustered about the need to prohibit, say, the vice president stealing sandwiches and a pint of horsey sauce from Arby's, everyone would have laughed at it as already plainly illegal, but the combined far-left and far-right anxiety about drones lent the stunt more gravitas than it deserved.
