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
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
He offered no new method of solution, but what he said made plain sense to most U.S. citizens.
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
In another passage a Master-Cook conceives himself to be a pupil of Epicurus, whose favourite but ambiguous axiom, that "Voluptuousness is the sovereign good," was interpreted by the bon-vivans of antiquity in the plain sense.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac
