plainness
- a word derived from plain.
Example Sentences
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Plainness is never a mistake on a concert stage.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 29, 2016
Plainness remains her political signature, with inflections of Protestant virtue and Prussian uprightness.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 24, 2014
A Taste for Plainness The simple perfection of the first American poet, Anne Bradstreet.
From Slate • Aug. 21, 2012
Plainness, homeliness, informality, which some called "cheapness" and others "humor," what some called "smart" and others "clever," what none denied had drive and excitement characterized the campaign utterances of Alfred Emanuel Smith.
From Time Magazine Archive
Plainness and simplicity do help the spiritual life, and these are more easy and wholesome when practised in common than when they are displayed by individuals in defiance of the social order that surrounds them.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn
