But he can stoop to "plain prose" when forced - or almost strangled - by Morell.

Hersey's plain prose was praised by critics as a model of understated narrative.

Ordinarily, though, the information will be put on your disk, to be perused later, in plain prose or detailed, colorful maps.

If the myths were incompatible, that hardly mattered, since no one with education really supposed them to be plain prose.

This is a mere exhibition of my inability to write plain prose, and more terribly, my impotence.

The "plain prose" of men's underwear, they said, was "in singular contrast to the poetical allurements worn by woman."

Highsmith wrote in plain prose, like a business report.

In beautifully plain prose, she surveys her long life in moments ordered not chronologically but emotionally.

Good plain English prose, but not artistic, not over-literary.