44 Metaphors for simplicities

His very simplicity is a snare to him.

And you sometimes doubt if simplicity be not a cover for poverty.

Simplicity is the only dignity.

The simplicity towards which the world is driving is the necessary outcome of all our systems and speculations and of our deep and continuous contemplation of things.

THE SIMPLICITY OF THE PRIMITIVE AGES has frequently been an object of poetical admiration, and it delights the imagination to picture men living upon such fruits as spring spontaneously from the earth, and desiring no other beverages to slake their thirst, but such as fountains and rivers supply.

Simplicity, clearness, directness are, therefore, the great virtues of thought and style.

This simplicity was the only thing connected with the affair which satisfied Mr Brandon, and he would have been glad to have the marriage entirely private, with no more witnesses than the law demanded.

" "Simplicity is the soul of efficiency, sir," replied Polton as he checked the tea-service to make sure that nothing was forgotten, and with this remarkable aphorism he silently evaporated.

She found that a certain simplicity of view and judgment which she had set down to girlish innocence, was, in reality, the natural bent of Veronica's character.

Error is involved in the darkness of unfathomable complexity, but eternal simplicity is the glory of Truth.

The simplicity of the swain in this place who forgets the name of the Zodiac, is no ill imitation of Virgil; but how much more plainly, and unaffectedly would Philips have dressed this thought in his Doric.

The simplicity which marked the worship of God as established by Calvin was also a feature in his system of church government.

As they had corrupted the primitive religion into polytheism, so Christianity was corrupted by conforming it to the prejudices of those to be converted, in whose eyes the simplicity of the new doctrine would have been no recommendation for it.

This is one more proof of the truth of the old saying, "Simplicity is nature's first step, and the last of art.

Its simplicity, practicability, and universality are to me at the same time its chief charms, and its credentials to success.

"But why, then, does he not walk with her?" "Why, because, Simplicity, both of them are men, while the little Monk on his arm is a lady, as you can see, and so is the masque that has the arm of the Indian Queen; look at their little hands.

P. 18, l. 280, Alcestis's speech.]Great simplicity and sincerity are the keynotes of this fine speech.

The change was effected without any legislative act, simply by the process of transfer under circumstances in which simplicity and uniformity were an absolute necessity.

And this magical simplicity is particularly successful in his descriptive passages, notably of natural effects, effects caught with an instinctively selected touch or two, an expressive detail, a grey or coloured word.

He had said, simplicity in dress was good economy and always good taste.

That simplicity, like art itself, which seems so easy is the most difficult accomplishment of all in war.

His very simplicity of style is a proof of his transcendent art, even as it is the evidence of his severity of taste.

His simplicity is too often the simplicity of Mother Goose rather than of Chaucer.

"Simplicity is no match for subtlety," he said, "and much favor hath been shown to her.

Simplicity, in fact, was its most annoying characteristic.

44 Metaphors for  simplicities