Recent Examples on the WebThe poet-philosophers of the plains (and every plainsman is one) know that the plains are unknowable in their totality, and are therefore charged with possibility. Ben Lerner, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2017 For Murnane, for the plainsmen, this obviously apparent richness of the actual is a kind of poverty. Ben Lerner, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2017