Most of these movies display an intense and beautiful visual style, and a plain and simple form of narration.

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But, thanks to the web, you can now create your own collection of ideas and data without all the pain of manipulating data into a plain, old chart or bar graph form.

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At the higher levels, your plain character will still be more powerful than his lord form, and so transforming feels like a vanity move.

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These are investment accounts that look suspiciously similar to plain old mutual funds but, dressed up as a form of life insurance, get certain tax benefits.

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Not quite, the Lumia 900 has its strengths, coming mainly in the form of optics, but it's the overall package and performance that's simply too plain, too ordinary, too dependable to merit the haughty flagship halo it aspires to emanate.

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