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Sentences starting with simplicity

Simplicity was his very life, and yet he had a gift for following the sinuosities of the Oriental mind; he had a quality almost clairvoyant, which came, perhaps, from his Irish forebears. [11]
Simplicity is not ugliness, nor poverty, nor barrenness, nor necessarily plainness. [4]
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. [4]
Simplicity in literature is mainly a matter of clear vision and lucid expression, however complex the subject-matter may be; exactly as in life, simplicity does not so much depend upon external conditions as upon the spirit in which one lives. [4]
Simplicity and worth and beauty--these elements at least of the older Republic should not perish, but in the end prevail. [9]

Sentences ending with simplicity

He might have worked it up with more art, and given it a finish which the narration now lacks, but I think best to insert it in its simplicity. [4]
He sat up with delight to see an artist and his "Madame" returning from a journey in the country, seated upon sheaves of corn, quite unregarded by the world; doing as they listed with unabashed simplicity. [11]
Her face was very young, though the eyes were so wise in their simplicity. [11]
It was marvellous to see how this untutored man, by mere self-discipline and the chastening of his own spirit, had outgrown all meretricious arts, and found his own way to the grandeur and strength of absolute simplicity. [7]
We need, however, to go a little further in this question of simplicity. [4]
Freedom was perhaps the word, and yet her latest notion was simplicity. [4]
Here prevailed also the same studied simplicity. [4]
The Drawer trusts that it is, for there can be nothing new in the preaching of simplicity. [4]
It struck me that I never had met a man whose words and manner were at times so charged with pathos; it was artistic in its searching simplicity. [11]
There never was such simplicity. [4]

Short sentences using simplicity

The thing is simplicity itself. [9]
The method is simplicity itself. [5]
At home she liked simplicity. [4]
He liked simplicity. [11]

Sentences containing simplicity two or more times

It may be more difficult to maintain simplicity of living with a great fortune than in poverty, but simplicity of spirit--that is, superiority of soul to circumstance--is possible in any condition. [4]
The simplicity of a vice may be as real as the simplicity of a virtue. [11]

More example sentences with the word simplicity in them

And after the young woman had told with great simplicity and earnestness of the struggle to support herself and lead an honest and self-respecting existence, it seemed to Honora that at last she had opened the book of life at the proper page. [9]
It was a world of ease, simplicity, and beauty; now it is a scene of desolation and misery. [5]
The things for which her mother had striven she took for granted, and thought of them not at all, and she had by nature that simplicity and astonishing frankness of manner and speech which was once believed to be an exclusive privilege of duchesses. [9]
I laughed out when I got to the mention of Frederika's special accomplishment, given by you with a distinct simplicity that, to my taste, is what the French would call 'impayable. [14]
I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar-room stove of the dilapidated tavern in the decayed mining camp Angel's, and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance. [5]
Therefore the "establishment" went along with her to Rivervale, and the shy, modest little woman, who had dropped down into the country simplicity that she so dearly loved, greatly enjoyed the sensation that her coming produced. [4]
It may be well to add that he was not always so incautious, but this soldier bore the unmistakable stamp of simplicity and sincerity on his face. [9]
Janet often lay watching her, puzzled, under the spell of a frankness, an ingenuousness, a simplicity she had least expected to find in one who belonged to such a learned place as that of Silliston. [9]
I loved to watch her, for with me she was ever her own absolute self, free from all artifice, lost in her perfect naturalness: a healthy, perfect soundness, a primitive simplicity beneath the artifice of usual life. [11]
But now--now there was the old unschooled simplicity, the unique and lonely personality, the homely soul and body bending to one root-idea, losing themselves in a wave of duty. [11]
I think it was simplicity, rather than mischief, with perhaps a youthful playfulness, that led him to this outbreak. [6]
I said it was cheap, and full of republican simplicity, and perfectly safe. [5]
Although its owner was a professed believer in republican simplicity, no such edifice ornamented any town to the west of the state capital. [9]
If, however, he walked along the shore at bathing times he might be enlightened, and he would see besides a certain simplicity of social life which sophisticated Europe has no parallel for. [4]
It is the union of simplicity with grandeur, for which we have all been looking. [4]
The old gentleman's undoubting, unquestioning simplicity has a rare freshness about it in these matter-of-fact railroading and telegraphing days. [5]
Then she turned to the Spartan, remarking, that to him alone of all her guests, instead of an apology for the simplicity of the meal, she felt she owed one for its luxury. [10]
I am sorry to say that the effect has been to take off something of the bloom of his simplicity, and to elevate him into an oracle. [4]
The author labored to give his words and phrases the quaint, old-fashioned sound and structure of our King James's translation of the Scriptures; and the result is a mongrel--half modern glibness, and half ancient simplicity and gravity. [5]
Older people came to Asquith for simplicity and rest, and the younger ones were brought there for these things. [9]
For the second time his complete simplicity had disarmed her. [9]
I could see through it all the fine, sound nature, by its healthy simplicity mastering anxiety, care, and fear. [11]
He was scarcely three years older than herself; he was eighteen--but in spite of his youth and simplicity he was not unmanly; and there was something in him--something that compelled her to be constantly thinking of him and asking herself what that something was. [10]
The Shorter cottage, though commodious, was simplicity itself. [9]
The simplicity of this method, Holder thought, was undeniable. [9]
He entered those things in his note-book without suspicion, he takes them out and delivers them to the world with a candor and simplicity which show that he believed them genuine. [5]
They know whether they are restless or contented, and what examples they set to the peoples who get their ideas of republican simplicity and virtue from the Americans who sojourn among them. [4]
Oh, Republican Simplicity, there are many, many humbugs in the world, but none to which you need take off your hat! [5]
The more obscure their theories, the more were they overloaded with image and metaphor; all simplicity of statement was lost, and yet the disputants prided themselves on the brilliancy of their language and the wealth of their ideas. [10]
The tendency of the young woman generally to simplicity, of the American young woman to a certain restraint (at least when abroad), to a deference to her elders, and to tradition, has been noted. [4]
He was now the well-modulated man of affairs, elegant in his simplicity of dress, with the dignified air of the intellectual, yet with the decision of a man who knew his mind. [11]
She had inherited the stolid simplicity of her English grandfather. [11]
She answered with the simplicity which so often spoiled the enemy's best-laid plans in the trial at Poitiers, and said: "No; for I do not know what you are going to ask me; you might ask of me things which I would not tell you. [5]
I remember of the sermon only that it had an indefinite charm of simplicity and wisdom, with occasional illustrations from nature, which were about the most delicate and dainty things of the kind which I had ever heard. [6]
The result was the perfection of simplicity, of freshness, of maiden purity, enhanced by the touch of art. [4]
Her conceptions of the human soul were all simplicity and purity, but elementary. [6]
We have appropriated the English conviviality, the German simplicity, the Roman pomp, and we have added to it an element of expense in keeping with our own greatness. [4]
Not the courtliness, the easy simplicity of the old-school gentleman, in whose presence the milkmaid was as much at her ease as the countess, but something far finer than this. [4]
He thrilled at the direct simplicity of the tale. [11]
Instead of developing the colonial simplicity on lines of dignity and harmony to modern use, we stuck on the pseudo-classic, we broke out in the Mansard, we broke all up into the whimsicalities of the so-called Queen Anne, without regard to climate or comfort. [4]
The simplicity of the Bible dwells in those speeches, and they are now classics in our literature. [9]
But to read the account of it how he felt might destroy his seriousness of mind, and in all reverence and simplicity he felt it--be a means of "grieving away the Holy Spirit. [4]
The very fact that you had the audacity to come back to Foxon Falls and impose on Dr. Pindar's simplicity, proves it. [9]
It strikes me that these expenses are out of all proportion to the simplicity of the task involved. [9]
The Vicomtesse said that the gown had been made by Leonard, a court dressmaker, and it was of the fashion the Queen had set to wear in the gardens of the Trianon when simplicity became the craze. [9]
All the small table arrangements had the same dainty simplicity about them. [14]
I am not sure whether simplicity is a matter of nature or of cultivation. [4]
Besides, there was something engaging in his countrified simplicity and his beaming good-nature. [5]
And there was so much kindliness and simplicity in his singsong voice that Pierre tried to reply, but his jaw trembled and he felt tears rising to his eyes. [2]
The matter of simplicity, then, comes into literary style, into building, into dress, into life, individualized always by one's personality. [4]
Appropriating, in your simplicity, the property of others has gotten you into trouble. [5]
Her naivete, her simplicity, her ignorance of social conventions and of the worldly wisdom which to Mrs. Mavick was the sum of all knowledge misled her mother as to her power of discernment and her strength of character. [4]
You go beyond simplicity when you attempt to appropriate more than your wants, your aspirations, whatever they are, demand--that is, to appropriate for show, for ostentation, more than your life can assimilate, can make thoroughly yours. [4]
Its concision and simplicity were poignant. [11]
What would be simplicity to you may be superfluity to another. [4]
The more of simplicity that she sensed in him the greater the advantage she took. [13]
Such was his simplicity of speech and manner, such his transparent sincerity, that it was next to impossible to quarrel with the gentle image-breaker. [6]
In the artless simplicity natural to this time of life, he will regard it as a perfectly fair transaction. [5]
The destruction of simplicity is a craving for things, not because we need them, but because others have them. [4]
I think his simplicity his most remarkable trait. [9]
Withal, a logical simplicity governed his argument. [11]
It was not simple music, although it had in it a grand simplicity. [9]
Their unostentatious simplicity showed the refined taste of their royal occupant. [10]
It was, in short, the modern idea of country simplicity. [4]
I fancied sometimes she was tired of it, and longed for the old homely simplicity. [4]
Vulgarity, one can see, consists in making one's self a part of the display of wealth: the thing to be attained is personal simplicity on a background of the richest ostentation. [4]
Somewhere along this route we had a few startling exhibitions of Oriental simplicity. [5]
He was a rough, honest creature, full of pluck, and just as full of hard-headed simplicity, too. [5]
In a word, Republican Simplicity found Europe with one shirt on her back, so to speak, as far as real luxuries, conveniences, and the comforts of life go, and has clothed her to the chin with the latter. [5]
To this Slatin replied: "Sire, what greater proof could be had of the man's simplicity? [11]
I did not recognize in him inferiority of literary taste half so distinctly as I did simplicity of character and fearless acknowledgment of his inaptitude for scholarship. [6]
Truthfulness is a quality that needs to be as strongly insisted on in literature as simplicity. [4]
Truthfulness is a quality like simplicity. [4]
I said something pretty rough, and made as if I was goin' to break her in two--just fetched up my hands, and went like this!--" With a singular simplicity he made a wild gesture with his hands, and an animal-like snarl came from his throat. [11]
After all, the power or element of "contract" may be sufficient for this probationary period, and by its simplicity and flexibility may be the better. [7]
We toyed with politics, with simplicity, we wasted the land, we played cards as our coaches passed through famine-stricken villages. [9]
The Directoire dress points to another period of republican simplicity, anarchy, and the rule of a popular despot. [4]
They exhibit a pleasing picture of a community almost exclusively agricultural, where no man has much time for words, in his search after things; of a community of great simplicity of manners, and of a manifest love of justice. [6]
The book of philosophy was underlined and interlined on every page, and every margin had comment which showed a mind of the most singular simplicity, searching wisdom, and hopeless confusion, all in one. [11]
Dolokhov's appearance amazed Petya by its simplicity. [2]
It disturbed the peaceful simplicity of the village, and it was likely to cloud her pleasure in Philip's visit. [4]
It has no particular meaning; but our Government tries to give it one; it tries to make it stand for Republican Simplicity, modesty and unpretentiousness. [5]
He had his own secrets, but in the ordinary affairs of life he preferred simplicity. [11]
I expected to outwit the bird by a duplicity that was simplicity itself I may have over-calculated the sagacity and reasoning power of the bird. [4]
It was not ornate enough to please, generally, but those who admired the old Louvre liked the simplicity of its lines and the dignity of the elevations. [4]
The life of one with great possessions and corresponding responsibilities may be full of complexity; the subject of literary art may be exceedingly complex; but we do not set complexity over against simplicity. [4]
The latter, by official necessity, went in the meek and lowly swallow-tail--a deliciously sarcastic contrast: the one dress representing the honest and honourable dignity of the nation; the other, the cheap hypocrisy of the Republican Simplicity tradition. [5]
The utmost degree of variety had entered into the simplicity of the monotonous desert, the most refined abundance for the intellect and the need of beauty appeared amid its barrenness. [10]
She seemed part of the woods, its wild simplicity, its depth, its colour-already Autumn was crimsoning the leaves, touching them with amber tints, making the woodland warm and kind. [11]
The pathetic story of the old lady's ministrations, and her simplicity and faith, also got into the newspapers in time, and probably added to the pathos of this wrecked woman's fate, which was beginning to be felt by the public. [5]
With a kind of instinct as to the course he must henceforth pursue, Charley replied simply, dropping his eye-glass as he met that clear soluble look of the priest--such a well of simplicity he had never before seen. [11]
Another valuable part of his education was the gracious influence in his aunt's household, the spirit of candor, of affection, and the sane common-sense with which life was regarded, the simplicity of its faith and the patience with which trials were borne. [4]
When he had occasion to address one of the societies of ladies for the promotion of something among the poor, his style and manner were simplicity itself. [4]
She was smiling now, yet she was not merry; her brightness was the sunshine of a nature touched with an Arcadian simplicity. [11]
Still, he could not bear to repulse this struggling young author, who clung to him with such pretty simplicity and trustfulness. [5]
There is really no objection to this--the terror of the surplus is a sort of nightmare in the country--except that it destroys the simplicity of the festival, and belittles small offerings that have their chief value in affection. [4]
And there is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent. [2]
Once more, in my self-complacent simplicity I felt that the time had arrived for me to rise up and be a reformer. [5]
The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two. [5]
But in those moments when we have a clear vision of life, that which seems to us most admirable and desirable is the simplicity that endears to us the idyl of Nausicaa. [4]

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