plainness

Example Sentences

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I love their cute little Sugar Muffins name, and I never tire of their plainness.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2025

Part of the Cenotaph's power is its plainness.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2024

The plainness of Mallory Portnoy’s Stella was epitomized by the way she cuffed her jeans.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2024

But in his writing about Hitchens, Amis “moves into a fresh register,” our critic Parul Sehgal writes, and “accesses a depth of feeling and a plainness of language entirely new to his work.”

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2020

Its beauty lay in its simplicity, the plainness of its curve; even its wooden scabbard was spare and plain.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson