| They therefore affect a Quakerly plainness, or rather a cynical negligence and impurity, of style. |
| This Swedish girl with her sublime blue eyes reconciles glamour and plainness, glitter and burlap, pop and austerity? |
| In the end, it is that plainness which makes the climax of the book such powerful reading the Paris riots into which he and his mother accidentally stumble. |
| It took, indeed, trimness of apparel to make up for the plainness of his face. |
| There's obviously a Weber quality of beguilement in the pictures, but there is also plainness and honesty. |
| They sacrifice the plainness of nature to the gaudiness of ornament, and the tinsel of wit. |
