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But its proscriptions make plain the recklessness that characterises imperialist policy.
A Cotswold rock band are hoping it will be plain sailing when they travel from Chipping Campden to a gig in London's Camden Town on Monday.
Of course nothing is easy in sport and although the Westport men had their fate in their own hands on Sunday, it wasn't all plain sailing.
The article is subscription only so I've uploaded it here as a Word document and here in plain text.
The plain fact is that he should have gone to Shanghai personally to finesse the deal with the car makers.
She hands me a plain brown bag which appears to hold a loaf of French bread, or something very similar.
In plain English, it means the enemy fears the Indian Army's increasing firepower.
The only solution is that both are uses of the plain form in a subjunctive main clause construction.
Beyond that, a grassy plain stretched for miles and out of view, interrupted by a couple of scattered rock formations and some trees.
The plain abdominal films show distended loops of intestine with thickened bowel walls.
Ploughman's Spikenard is a tall, but rather plain plant with purplish stems and dull yellow flowers.
Paint plain wood frames in a color that complements your furniture and accessories, and spray with a clear acrylic gloss for a shiny finish.
The second building can be distinguished by its plain windows, in contrast to the multi-paned windows in the earlier building.
Its big plain glass windows contrasted with the dark glass of pubs which were designed to prevent people seeing in.
On both sides of the Atlantic plum duff began as something very plain and unpretentious.
The seasonally inundated plain habitat covered the remainder of the floodplain, except for the permanently wet areas.
Recently the Inupiat of Alaska's North Slope have supported oil drilling on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Interestingly, the Inupiat Eskimos that live on the coastal plain are greatly in favor of developing it carefully.
There is a definite move away from minimalism with even plain white delph adorned by texture, French antique finishes and softer lines.
Secondly, it means that devices using these schemes will be just plain flaky.
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It's all there in plain sight, which is why the reporters are having such an easy, gleeful time digging it up.
Nevertheless, she looked glum as she returned to her London hotel in a black maxi dress, black flatform shoes and a plain black baseball cap.
I could see across the flood plain towards rivers of blue glacial ice cascading down from the flanks of distant mountains.
So from these two verses it is plain and irrefutable, that Jesus has revealed the true nature concerning God to his twelve disciples.
The shop now only stocks drinks like both plain and flavoured milk and water, and fruit juices.
All gift packs are sent under plain cover, free of charge by first class post.
You can't even talk plain everyday facts anymore without someone telling you that you have been politically incorrect.
This forced the judge to intervene and rephrase the question in plain comprehensible English.
Swapping fizzy drinks, fruit juices and cordials for nice cold plain water can make a big difference to children's dental health.
Fundamentalists, conspiracy theorists, and plain folk live alongside freethinkers, environmentalists, artists, and scientists.
These tortillas come in two flavors as well, plain corn and red chili-flavored cornmeal.
Ever thoughtful to their customer's needs, Neiman Marcus also makes these plain tiny umbrellas and waterproof poncho.
The reason for America's present activist foreign policy is as plain as a pikestaff and is known to everybody.
Lastly the Holocene deposits that occur under Belfast were mainly deposited on the flood plain of the River Lagan.
This area is a flood plain but the blocked drainage channels are taking a long time to clear.
The adjacent flood plain was left high and dry, depriving the inhabitants of the catfish and other marshland staples of their diet.
The bypass will also cut across the flood plain of the river, effectively forming a dam to natural drainage.
A single-lane carriageway will be carried over the River Nadder and its flood plain on a viaduct.
I am in possession of the Environment Agency's map indicating the extent of the flood plain in this area.
The most central region culturally and economically is the lowland flood plain of the Mekong River and Tonle Sap Lake.
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To the north is the main wine-growing region, the flood plain of the Wairau River.
All the recipes I follow tell you to pop the popcorn in a pot with oil and plain popcorn kernels.
Hence there isn't really anything that could be classified as plain old pop or rock music.
I can only hope for his sake that he wasn't, coz some of the answers he gave were plain awful!
The tribal populace in the hilly areas of the State has not been largely affected by the same as comapared to the plain people.
Does extra insulation improve the plain metal bottle, or the insulated cup?
There are an astounding number of plain frauds and charlatans in charge of the propaganda of the other side.
Fill any clean shallow container, such as a flowerpot base, or terra cotta pot, with plain tap water.
Spacious and elegant, with a new plain green carpet and Portland stone fireplace, the lower level can accommodate a goodsized dining table.
She looked across the plain room to where a small portly man sat behind a large oak table, his podgy hands resting in front of him.
Whether you view this as profound, pretentious, or just plain potty, the results have always drawn a crowd.
After a vessel-rattling blast of the foghorn, your boat moves out, opening up a view of the city that is just plain thrilling.
The dish was excellently presented on the crisp linen table cloth in plain white crockery with a Thai flower for decoration.
Rule 99 makes it plain that section 8 is subject to the provisions for service by post.
To avoid plain green foliage syndrome it is worth experimenting with varied foliage plants.
It cries out to be exploited as a grand folly, an emblem of muddle, hype and plain foolishness with enormous entertainment potential.
Moldova is on a fertile plain with small areas of hill country in the center and north.
The sequences for lamps, fine wares, amphoras, cooking pots, and plain wares can be clearly established at Corinth.
To her, however, there was no distinction between plain linen and high-style crewel.
We'll send the relevant unbranded product spec sheets under plain cover direct to your clients.
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Sales literature posted will be sent under plain cover and will only bear names and addresses on the outside.
Any publications chosen will be posted under plain cover within three days.
Should you successfully conclude a contract please send it to me under plain cover.
It is characteristic of thoughtful people that they don't understand some things that to others are as plain as a pikestaff.
He was wearing tight tan pants with a plain white cravat and he had his matching tan coat swung over the back of the chair.
He's pretty set on everyone wearing a tartan, so plain formalwear is out, unless, again, I'm trying to make a statement.
Now there may be some at St. Blogs to whom it is plain as a pikestaff what the bishop needs to be doing.
They wore mirrored armor that would deflect a number of shots until the enamel wore off and only plain steel lay beneath.
It is worked in eight coloured wools on a plain linen ground, its masses of colour, in couched and laid work, defined by stem or outline stitch.
Good god, man, she's plain as a pikestaff with a wardrobe fresh out of the Salvation Army.
The plump waitress in a plain pink pinafore and dirty apron smiled a gap-toothed grin, red curls pinned back in hair netting.
The Scots wanted simple and plain prayer services while the new prayer book required more ritual and grandeur.
The chocolatier and confectioner spent long hours creating an enormous Easter egg, weighing in at 25 kgs of plain chocolate.
She can deny that human rights, presumption of innocence and just plain common decency are being sullied.
Use plain water, detergents, suitable proprietary compounds, or emulsifying agents.
This cookie is a spin on traditional pinwheels, in which plain and chocolate doughs are swirled together.
And delirious daftness without rhyme or reason is just plain boring and at the core of this film.
The low-backed sofa, scattered with plain white and fuzzy-upholstered cushions, is warm and welcoming without being fussy, elaborate, or ornate.
Her voice was cold, with no hint of the fiery anger that showed plain on her face.
Intonation, a command of decrescendo and true unison, and just plain running out of breath become the technical challenges singers must meet.
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Once you have had your fill of plain smoked salmon with brown bread and butter, think about using it in cooking.
So instead of leaving them in plain view in the kitchen, put them somewhere out of sight.
It was sort of plain and lonely looking with blue sheets and a single dresser on the farthest wall from the door.
But many of the stories are also hilariously funny, deeply celebratory, or just plain quirky.
This makes signatures and encryption in plain text, so it is easy to mail, print and cut and paste.
Typical of London houses, the plain front concealed the elaborate interior that was needed for lavish entertaining.
Try something unexpected like a blouse with a frilled front or lace cuffs under a plain sweater or a tailored jacket.
Sometimes if l want a really crunchy topping l crush a pack of plain crisps and add them to the cheese before crumbling it over the surface.
It was plain as soon as I was ushered into each man's presence that these were not mere business leaders, but princes of the blood.
Because of her plain wool dress and basic hairstyle, I had assumed she would not know royal etiquette so in depth.
Yet, perhaps because he deals mainly with sophisticated food, he prefers plain cooking at home.
Interestingly the plain case holds the elaborately decorated cutlery while the filigree case houses the more restrained pieces.
He liked plain food, without sauces or cheese, and plenty of fresh vegetables, including those grown in the garden of his estate.
Today, she is wearing a plain black ankle-length dress decorated with flowers, perversely projecting a rather saintly look.
She combines confessional prose with cultural commentary, narrative with argument, plain declarative sentences with lovely lyrical passages.
Although there was a variety of slightly different recipes, the one in my mind was a pretty basic recipe for plain chiffon cake, I thought.
Meanwhile, it's downplaying such basics as khakis and plain blue jeans in favor of items like tops with matching belts.
The gravity cooler is usually a grid of plain pipe covering the fishroom deckhead and sometimes extending down the sides and bulkheads.
She was surrounded by a simple, plain room with a wooden wardrobe and desk.
Thumb ring had amethyst jewel in the middle and the pinky ring was just a plain design with squiggly lines and dots, both were silver.
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Most of the available fountain soft drink providers offer a line of plain and flavored teas.
Quilting designs may carry across the quilt ignoring seam lines in fancy or plain geometric patterns.
Ascot rules dictate that they should be of a plain colour, and innocent of sponsors' logos.
In contrast to the dazzling young debutante, Princess Mary looked hopelessly plain despite wearing a light green dress.
I'm starting to think she's just plain dumb and not the conservative intellectual she pretends to be.
Go for plain solids or patterns that fit with fall themes, like floral or leaf patterns.
That line features brightly colored patterns or plain shirts over solid pants in a wide range of tones.
I cut an overly sweet cake and got a gift I do not remember except that it was covered with plain silver wrapping paper.
If you don't want to diminish the Christmas morning surprise, wrap stocking stuffers in plain white or silver paper before tucking them inside.
Do you change it frequently or are you a purist with just the plain default colour?
The waiters were pressurising me to make a decision, so I took the easiest option and swapped the fillet steak for plain old chicken.
If your heart is set on wallpaper, consider a plain colour or a small-scale print that you and your child won't tire of in years to come.
For so long, it's been black or linen in plain colours, and suddenly there's been an explosion of colour which is really inspiring people.
Combining a bright color with a muted one, or a plain fabric with a printed one, makes one set of place mats the equivalent of two.
It is more difficult to fool the eye with carpet but if you have to go this route, choose a random pattern or plain carpet.
The 1997 collage is made up of papers that are plain or dotted, striped and sponge-painted.
The usual choice is a solid-color opaque fabric, but you might consider a print lining under a plain color or even a patterned sheer.
They wanted a more contemporary look, such as a chrome finish and plain fabrics.
As with gifts, people come in fancy wrapping that camouflages a dull interior, or plain wrapping that disguises a vibrant and exciting core.
There were three gendarmes in plain clothes, a little pumped up with the adrenaline of the occasion.
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Previously the Police had recorded her complaint on a plain piece of paper.
Due to the fact that it's more an obsession than plain passion I call myself a photoholic.
Before we started, we placed very large pieces of plain Manila paper on each desk, as a protective covering for the work surface.
Type your manuscript on plain white paper, double-spaced, using only one side of the page.
In cases where no crystals hahve been observed using holey grids, it is important to try plain carbon film.
It wasn't just a plain piece of A4 paper and it wasn't just stuck in a normal envelope.
They were mostly plain folks, even poor folks, people with nothing to lose but their poverty.
Use good quality, plain white paper and print your letter in the standard business letter format.
I gave the children a piece of plain white paper and challenged them to make their own envelopes.
Inside was at least five stacks of plain white paper, along with seven pencil boxes.
Those who embraced plain folks Americanism were often racist, but there was more to their position than racism.
So, instead of finding my grandpa to tell him, I sit down on my desk, and, on a plain piece of paper, I start to write a letter.
It would seem at the outset that the beast or bestial man can do more harm than the plain bad man, and later that the exact opposite is the case.
The plan is outlined in a government memo which was leaked to the environmental group Friends of the Earth in a plain brown envelope last week.
So when a got a plain brown paper wrapped package in the mail from Nancy the other day, I knew it would not be safe to open in front of the kids.
In the post, she received a blade for a hack-saw in a plain brown envelope.
These envelopes, always plain white and small, are never opened until the two parties are far apart.
In 1974, she was music director at WMMS, in Cleveland, when she received a record in a plain brown envelope.
When presented only with a plain ballot paper, even more may choose to express their concerns.
On the back of the imagination test was stapled a plain envelope that contained the ESP targets.
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David pulled a plain envelope from a coat pocket, giving it to the vicar and shaking his hand as the man gave his condolences.
On the morning of April 5, 2001, he received a sealed, plain brown envelope addressed to him.
Her gaze settled upon the last letter, a small, plain envelope addressed to her maiden name from someone she couldn't remember at first.
The rocky slopes dropped away abruptly into a plain scarred by dry creek-beds.
Taped to his door panel was a plain white envelope with his name neatly printed across the front in red ink.
An inspection of this end shows it to be pierced by three plain lancet windows with no dripstone.
He is an unrivaled expositor of plain arguments, but without much originality.
She didn't recognize the return address but turned it over, inspecting it carefully before tearing the paper off the plain box.
I received a plain white envelope in today's post, which I idly opened while still bleary-eyed and caffeine-free.
And so the politicians, the soldiers, the businessmen, and the plain folk decided it was best to give up their guns.
The hotelier in the resort for six years was arrested on Thursday after indecently exposing himself to a plain clothes male officer.
On the outside he was a plain guy, quite normal and polite, but once you got to know him, opinions started to take a turn for the worse.
She was just plain Suzy, driving her sleeping family home after a day out at the coast.
The plain was as flat as a tabletop, and she instinctively felt exposed and vulnerable, there being no possible way to conceal one's presence.
On the day both teams showed great determination, and it was plain to see that winning would be no easy task.
If all this proves he's an intelligent songwriter, it's also plain that he is in touch in an all-American way with his inner man.
Since he clearly understands the law, it's plain that if we take him at his word, he appears to believe in free speech only for himself.
It would also specifically allow oil exploration on the coastal plain of the Arctic reserve in the north of Alaska.
What essentially is the debate about how to read a text that's written in plain English?
His content is in Farsi, Farsi written phonetically with English characters and plain English.
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The escarpment where the plateau met the plain became the Vindhya mountains.
When it comes to the front page, newspapers favor plain language, in part to protect the readers from the seductions of rhetoric, of art.
This makes it a plain fact that religion can neither be a dogma nor a doctrine.
In the new morality, the eroticism of Chinese lyrics was unabashed, polymorphous, and just plain sexy.
The wooden spoon may beckon for St Johnstone, but were there an award for plain speaking, the club chairman would be an undoubted front-runner.
They expected to get away with a plain denial of history rather than a mere insistence on divorcing history from politics.
It is apparent to him that his plain speaking is the reason for these attacks, and this goes to show that his statements are true.
In this day and age of exploding energy costs, it is just plain ignorant to plant evergreens where they don't belong.
The two dwarves were dressed in plain brown shirts and trousers of the same design, and they had gold epaulettes on their shoulders.
His great Northern instinct for plain speaking, his sharp wit and irreverence will be greatly missed.
Athletics coaches and administrators, not to mention a few journalists, have been on the receiving end of her plain speaking over the years.
The Daily Mail claimed that his honesty and plain speaking is the best defence Britain could have against extremism and social unrest.
Jesus' sermon on the plain is his enlistment speech for that great crowd of disciples who want to follow him.
The billboards are the primary examples of that, projecting him as the plain speaking, not-quite-politician.
Is this issue beneath this great Prime Minister, who is blunt, and plain speaking, and goes on the front foot?
His displeasure and irritation with the slow pace of progress at this weekend's Barcelona summit was plain for all to see.
The names of each one of the 30 countries have been engraved on the plain grey surface of the memorial.
It is full of misinformation, disinformation, noninformation, and just plain lies.
Too often what one has regarded as necessary plain speaking, the other has seen has offensive insensitivity.
It was nice to see such an attractive Ruth as often she is rather plain compared to Elvira.
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However, the key to success was to switch from plain text to enciphered text as well as frequency-hopping mode.
Driving to work this morning I saw several incidences of bad driving and plain old discourtesy on the road.
Do they choose plain girls with no education or sense of style, and who will happily consider going to McDonalds on Saturday night?
It was ornately decorated with gold embossment, and the plain gray pants that Will wore only further served to glorify the coat.
The majority of these are plain spoons which have been embossed with foliage, fruit or flowers in the second half of the 19th century.
She had always been a plain child, though anyone who looked at her could tell who her mother was, for she looked much like her mother.
According to the RSPB, the River Earn is cut off from its natural flood plain by earth embankments protecting agricultural land.
Every day was full of challenges, some gruelling, others just plain grubby.
When we were building with plain old stud walls, overloading the wood fibers of the groundsills never happened and it was a non-problem.
Plus, it's just plain exhausting trying to say productive, generous, and constructive things all the time.
And of course half the audience was just plain bored, because it all seemed rather plotless and longhaired.
The suggestion that cabinet would sit there listening to tapes for hours on end is just plain silly.
It's a silly train wreck of a show, and at some point, you realize these kids are just plain bored.
You can see the actual nerves inside the spinal column, plain as plain, and every tiny dint and imperfection on the vertebrae.
If you feel overwhelmed, exhausted or just plain rundown, you probably are dealing with unhealthy amounts of stress.
He was sharp and hard hitting, tender and sincere, funny and mischievous, humble and playful, and just plain entertaining.
Many died from malnutrition, fighting, or just plain exhaustion before even getting to the construction sites.
Minimizing the number of systems that engineers deal with is also key, so that making GM products is cheaper and just plain simpler.
The burgers come with either a green salad or a serving of plain potato chips on the side.
If you're working with plain cushion, apply rubber cement to both the cushioned die and the block.
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As for her, she's just plain exasperated, what with that nose hanging off her face and a score pounding nonstop at her temples.
When working the 101st row, knit the margin, also 9 stripes of the pattern, then knit 30 plain stitches, and resume the pattern to the end.
I mean, let's be honest here, asking you to better it would be just plain greedy of me, wouldn't it?
Was there a similar shakedown then of the just plain stupid ideas as we are experiencing now?
That kind of business-as-usual strategy would have been considered hubris or just plain stupid a decade ago, but the sands have shifted.
And who hasn't raved about a movie or a book that somebody has found to be totally inane or just plain boring?
The trouble with most of the right wing positions are that they are just plain old fashioned stupid.
If you are artistic, why not purchase a set of plain white ceramic egg cups, tea cups or plain glasses which are extremely inexpensive.
Now, we get to some other typos and a lot of just plain stupid false comments that were made in this book.
Some of the designs seem, at first glance, a little too complex and just too plain clever for their or New York's good.
He plays a single parent thief whose diplomatic skills take the form of naked and, at times, plain stupid aggression.
Your statement on Nicaragua shows how utterly naive and just plain stupid you are.
Many of the styles back in the day were simply horrid, amusing or plain bizarre.
When you see counterproductive, invasive, or just plain stupid security, don't let it slip by.
They should have been happy at the prospect of fresh air, swathes of green and house prices which are stupid rather than plain insane.
It takes a great deal of mental effort to keep in mind the fact that whatever is happening is just plain fiction.
I'll tell you plain that I'm pretty rough myself, but you're mighty shady company even for Billy.
Helen stood behind Rena, dressing her hair in a plain but also extraordinary fashion.
Although acute appendicitis is usually diagnosed clinically, plain abdominal radiographs and contrast enema may be utilized.
Instead, Fox has scheduled plain and simple reality programming that will appeal to the regular granola type dudes.
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What's the point of saying something that is as plain as the nose on your face?
Often, these places post the nutrition information of their menus in plain view.
Officers found the fragment of one bullet lying in plain sight on the vehicle's driver's seat.
But plain baked pistachios are great on their own as a snack food which doubles up as the ultimate luxury addition to crunchy granola or muesli.
I make it plain it is open to you, Mr Rothschild, to apply to the court, in this court, to purge your contempt.
On their way from playoff also-rans to just plain also rans, the Timberwolves have made an improbable detour into the NBA's elite.
His appearance is unremarkable, and that makes it possible for him to hide in plain sight.
She was in plain view all the time, but everyone was so worried they didn't see her.
He notices a hawk resting in plain view on a tree limb a hundred yards distant.
To be completely frank with you, the main reason that there is no comments system here is because I'm a control freak, plain and simple.
He looked like the goody-goody boy next door, tall and with a slight build, a little tanned, with wavy brown hair and plain brown eyes.
It's about Toronto taking control of the look of our city, plain and simple.
Reaching down into his pocket the man pulled out a plain black sack with a pull string handle that tightened and closed the opening to the sack.
At 44 years old, and as the most decorated female athlete of all time, she's a phenomenon, plain and simple.
Good, bad or just plain wrong, If I see a cover version of a song I know, I have to have it.
It's plain as day that the levelers are a very creative bunch of people that know how to design interesting and tension filled challenges.
Yet many contemporaries worried that lawyers were merely complicating matters that ought to be as plain as day.
This is pure, one-man-band, Presidential propaganda, and we can all see it, as plain as day.
The effect of his outburst is happily plain to see in the latest opinion poll showing Labour pulling ahead of the Tories.
Also, the notion of conditioning women who are aggressive go-getters into cookie-baking, bottle-blonde Barbie dolls is just plain offensive.
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There are at least a dozen of them, dressed in plain clothes, I was told, to avoid, alarming visitors.
The strike is continuing and police in plain clothes continue to roam the estate.
Undercover inspectors in plain clothes ride around the Metrolink routes and challenge passengers to prove they have a ticket.
When it became clear that Stockwell tube was his possible destination, a team of armed police officers in plain clothes were alerted.
The tactic of having the police in plain clothes near campuses has also paid dividends in catching eve-teasers.
Officials are dressing in plain clothes and patrolling with a dog to blend in with other pet-walkers in the parks.
We wore plain clothes rather than uniform and slept in them, including our shoes, for weeks on end.
They were a ragtag bunch, dressed in all variety of military uniforms, some in plain clothes.
He was arrested some time ago by a constable in plain clothes for using obscene language and dumped at Central Police Station.
Add salt and pepper, about half a teaspoon of dry mustard powder, and a rounded tablespoon of plain flour.
Sure they have their place and are fantastic for prototyping a site, but we prefer to hand-code our final drafts in a plain text editor.
The guitar fretboard on a classical guitar, however, is usually plain and lacks these markers.
His criticisms of the flaws of Kenyan society have been plain and well aimed.
Andrew is wearing a plain forage cap and a 9 button shell jacket.
It is as plain as a pikestaff that you had too much to drink.
But after the battering that it has taken this week, it is as plain as a pikestaff that most observers will be lining up with the Department of Finance on this one.
One is plain black, one is a black pinstripe and one is a navy pinstripe.
It may lack some of the epistolary poetry of, say, Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, and the style is plain almost to the point of insentience.
Doors, all plain wood with similar lines of grain etched in each of them passed quickly on either side, and he soon found the one he was looking for.
Sans serif fonts are typically plain with constant line weight.
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There are nice wooden floors and plain walls with tasteful pictures.
The foul weather also keeps most students at school in the middle of the day, making do with very simple food such as plain steamed buns and hot water, for lunch.
Sarees that are mass-produced in plain and sober colours, have as much charm as the hand-woven ones that are heavily embroidered with intricate designs.
If you want to distract attention from your top half, go for a plain colour and style on top and a sexier bottom with side ties or lots of flamboyant detail.
Sport it with a gray suit and plain white or patterned shirt.
The next morning, we spent no more than an hour making the poster, writing George's slogan on a large plain brown paper wrapper with big black markers.
Cover the work surface with plain newsprint or a drop cloth.
If additional space is needed, continue on plain white, lettersize paper.
I find working on plain white paper with a ballpoint pen is the best way.
Individually, an ant would get lost on a plain piece of paper.
He took it a couple of steps further though, faxing all the local Cleveland media outlets on plain white paper with his signature demanding a trade.
The plain envelope which landed on my desk was sent anonymously.
The envelope was a plain white one with no indication who it was from.
The letters arrived in plain envelopes with a Kelowna return address.
Most importantly, the conviviums will include just plain folk.
They would wait until 1804 before electing plain Samuel as trustee.
Like many of us, it is also plain that he cannot understand why.
Financial jargon is becoming a thing of the past due to IFSRA's efforts to educate consumers and encourage the financial industry to speak in plain English.
On the other hand, he is fond of the kind of design analysis that leaves the uninitiated wishing he would speak in plain English, in terms the layman can understand.
She was down to earth, plain speaking, kind and considerate.
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But he easily outclassed him in argument and plain speaking.
I realise, of course, that honesty is a thoroughly dangerous habit, but the avoidance of plain speaking is probably, in the long run, more destructive.
Honesty and plain speaking are not virtues for politicians and diplomats.
The awards, designed to draw attention to the need for plain speaking, are now in their 23rd year and were celebrated at a ceremony in central London yesterday.
He is from an era when blunt and plain speaking was applauded.
Their politics were radically different, but each man believed plain speaking was essential to a democracy because it was the only way to tell the truth.
It does not commend itself to the masses, which say they like plain speaking, and it cannot be translated into action, which may be good or evil or neither but cannot be both.
I had never come across a story where the girl was plain or ugly.
I tried to care for her and the child, and it was the most dreadful thing to see her change from that bubbling, bright girl into a tired, plain woman.
The plain girl was normally quick on the uptake, but it took her a few moments before the horrible realization dawned that none of those dresses had been for her after all.
Never before had she worried about what she looked like or being ignored, in fact she had wished that she was plain in features and thus left alone to do whatever she desired.
Perfect posture can make a plain person stunningly attractive.
She was an average looking girl, but she was plain like white paint.
She's a plain girl, and dresses in what is best suited, not best looking.
The two have no chemistry, and his personality is plain awful.
The first is to create publicly accessible data about bloggers' personalities, which may have sociological value in addition to being just plain fun.
After a good twenty minutes in one of these megastores, however, experience tells that the dizzy anticipation is usually replaced by just plain dizziness.
It seems quite simply to be plain clueless power-grabbing, to me.
He was speaking plain enough to be very intelligible to Emma.
The state of your health is literally as plain as the nose on your face, according to such ancient healing systems as Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine.

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