No excuse me this time, just the plain statement: "I'm looking for a girl.

It was a plain statement of fact, competent and comforting in its efficiency.

This was not a hollow boast but a plain statement of fact.

That plain statement of fact brought my mind to.

He said it without rancour, in the tone of one making a plain statement.

He had not meant anything at all beyond the plain statement.

She did not raise her voice, or express any anger; it was a plain statement of fact.

Common to both is the iron ring of plain statement.

Well, we start with a few plain statements of facts.

Or was it just a plain statement of fact?