Anti-Federalists charged that the Constitution was so difficult to read that it amounted to a conspiracy against the understanding of a plain man, that it was willfully incomprehensible.

NEWYORKER: The Commandments

The resumes either included a photo of an attractive man or woman, a photo of a plain-looking man or woman, or no photo at all.

FORBES: Are Pretty Women Less Employable?

This, though, wasn't mere plain speaking from a man who loves to be loathed by those he mocks as "the liberati".

BBC: Thursday 24 April

Lula is a man of the left, plain and simple.

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This fury seemed strange, emanating as it did from a man who had always made it plain that he regarded friends as more important than policemen.

ECONOMIST: Jimmy Goldsmith

Graham Forbes, a handsome and shallow young man, secretly homosexual, has married Betty Greene, who is plain but rich.

NEWYORKER: Blue Period

Voters wanted a change, they blamed the socialists for Romania's corruption, and they saw the plain-spoken Mr Basescu, a former sea captain and mayor of Bucharest, as a rare honest man.

ECONOMIST: A promising start to a presidency

At 19:30 local time (00:30 GMT), plain-clothed officers Lukasz Kozicki and Michael Levay were on a subway train in Brooklyn when they saw a man move between carriages, city officials said - a clear violation of subway rules.

BBC: Three New York police officers shot and wounded