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
Although Bush blandly denied that he had made any such link, the denials contradicted the plain sense of his words.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The allegorical interpretations and metaphysics which had been imported into religion had taken men’s minds away from the plain sense of the Koran.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
