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
Can the bubbling lava of this decade's news be captured by human understanding and shaped into summary that makes plain sense?
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Kohl even claimed, against the plain sense of the agreed wording, that the third zero was still a possibility.
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Although Bush blandly denied that he had made any such link, the denials contradicted the plain sense of his words.
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Thus lived and died one of the excellent of the earth,—a woman of good, plain sense, a guileless heart, and a sanctified spirit and life.
From The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada by Hodgins, J. George (John George)