Instead, they make plain their discontent from behind the curtain, forcing a move without having the decency to admit it.

He felt happier discussing it in an interview, however, when he could make plain that there was no ill-feeling.

But in such a sensitive context, the legislation should make plain the limited circumstances in which closed hearings are permissible.

But his fall from grace was inevitable when he began to make plain that he had lost sympathy with his masters' policies, or rather lack of them.

They also make plain his originality and daring; some of these entirely figurative pictures are prevented from being seen as abstracts only by a few lines on a windowpane.