plainness

Now it looks like iOS, the plainness hurts my eyes.

Can I really be the only one who clicked the link and _enjoyed_ the plainness?

And his prose seems quite dull, until you come to accept the plainness as having some kind of charm of its own.

Sure, but euphemism just doesn't fall under the umbrella of 'plainness,' in any way, shape or form.

Others' ideas about the plainness and being able to vote without going to the sub-page are spot-on though.

It's simply the case that technical writing aims at plainness, and 'to author' is a bit hoity-toity.

The lines of the lapel, tie and collar call attention to your face, and the plainness of the suit calls attention away from the clothes.

I just mean that there's nothing inherently sincere about plainness and simplicity.

We don't need to be quite as paranoid about the plainness of a directory navigation tool, as needed for a command interpreters path selector.

And if the plainness/unelaboratedness of deaign is part if Reddit's identity, why most subreddits use elaborate custom CSS?

It's odd to shift gears all the time, with two sets of syntax tools etc..I found that despite Java's plainness ... it's robust and I don't worry about 'how fast I can express myself' I'm more concerned about readability and Java is still ok there.

But that latent concern is quite different from what's being imputed by the article, which doesn't even get the Amish right: their rejection of many modern technologies is driven not by any consequentialist cost-benefit analysis, but by a deontological desire for plainness, self-effacement and submission to the rule or order of their anabaptist religion.