plain sense
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He was the evening’s most ornate improviser, but his bond with the concert’s house rhythm section — Peter Washington on bass, Willie Jones III on drums — made plain sense.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2011
Kohl even claimed, against the plain sense of the agreed wording, that the third zero was still a possibility.
From Time Magazine Archive
Can the bubbling lava of this decade's news be captured by human understanding and shaped into summary that makes plain sense?
From Time Magazine Archive
Although Bush blandly denied that he had made any such link, the denials contradicted the plain sense of his words.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is so substantially a reformer, that I find his grand, plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters—Rabelais, Shakespeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler, and Burns.
From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett) Reed
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