plain sense
Example Sentences
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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
The eggs are all coming from the drawing board of Pascal H�usermann, 30, a Swiss architect for whom the laying of ovals is not a stunt but just plain sense.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kohl even claimed, against the plain sense of the agreed wording, that the third zero was still a possibility.
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
They could not be taken in truth, judgment, and righteousness: for either they were ambiguous, or their plain sense obliged to manifest iniquities, to conform with all their enacted corruptions.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander
