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
He offered no new method of solution, but what he said made plain sense to most U.S. citizens.
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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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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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Such was the true Jesuitic conduct of a grey-haired politician, who at length found that honest plain sense could embarrass and finally entrap the creature of the cabinet, the artificial genius of diplomatic finesse.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac