The plainest case in many words entangling.
Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure any more that in a given case they will uphold the plainest mandate of the Constitution. On the contrary, everyone begins to be more or less convinced in advance that they won't. Judges are chosen not because they know the Constitution and are in favor of it, but precisely because they appear to be against it.
Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.
Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.
The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
The usefulest truths are the plainest.
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.
I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.
Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.
The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.
We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.
The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.
. . . beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.
