the 'plainness penalty' would make a difference of £2,500 a year - or around £50 a week. It is unclear what is behind the phenomenon but it may be that beauty breeds confidence. The self-assured may ...

Sliced and toasted, pound cake is also hard to beat for breakfast; its perfect plainness as satisfying as a good biscuit. What I am sharing with you today is a family recipe from a new friend of ...

Or, it can be an exciting avenue to art that might go overlooked. But a taste for plainness or simplicity can be part of a satisfying range—not only between poets, but in the work of a ...

Isabella Rosner's essay describes wax figures covered in Spitalfields silk in scenes adorned with glitter of mica flakes and vibrantly coloured embroidery done by Quaker girls Show more Gold ...

5:11). But Paul knew the significance of an effective means of persuasion—an effective rhetoric—for he also wrote, “Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech” (2 ...

“I’ve said it enough about myself, my plainness is potent. Professional potent plainness!” he yells. Kinnear is funny. Humour is in his blood, after all. His mother is the actor Carmel Cryan ...