plainness

Example Sentences

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Part of the Cenotaph's power is its plainness.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2024

The plainness of Mallory Portnoy’s Stella was epitomized by the way she cuffed her jeans.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2024

These became popular despite – or maybe because of – their utter plainness.

From Salon • May 24, 2021

But in his writing about Hitchens, Amis “moves into a fresh register,” our critic Parul Sehgal writes, and “accesses a depth of feeling and a plainness of language entirely new to his work.”

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2020

Disappointed in its plainness, Tree-ear was ready to turn away when a thought struck him.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park