plainness

How To Use plainness In A Sentence

• the plainness of vanilla ice cream
• Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her! [ Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
• The style of these epistles doth not a little weaken the credit of them, being turgent, swelling with uncouth words and phrases, affected manner and ways of expression, new compositions of words, multiplying titles of honour to men, — exceedingly remote and distant from the plainness and simplicity of the first writers among the Christians, as is evident by comparing these with the epistle of Clemens before mentioned, that of Polycarpus in The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
• I can admire Avram Davidson for his baroqueness, and Hemingway for his plainness and Cormac McCarthy for both at different times in his career, but they were/are all capable of balancing the explicit and the implicit to achieve a desired effect. The Scarecrow-in-the-Desert Effect
• The 1961 band spoke with a common plainness of purpose.
• The plainness that many NOB women adopt is viewed by city women here as somewhat odd. How to "pass" for a Mexican
• The doctor had spoken with so much plainness that she was convinced to modify her treatment.
• If the exordial verses of Homer be compared with the rest of the poem, they will not appear remarkable for plainness or simplicity, but rather eminently adorned and illuminated: The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II
• In the weaker poems, the effect is wishful and mechanical, but there are many moments of startling illumination, and these are made more powerful by the seeming plainness and directness of his manner.
• I think Presbyterians have erred in plainness in ecclesiastical life. Two Tokens of National Progress