We neglect the majestic simplicities of the gospel, and involve our tired brains and hungry hearts in tortuous systems that lead us a long, long way from home.
They had abandoned the simplicities under the lure of the complexities.
What is this but the soul garbing itself in the most perfect simplicitiesas the only fitting raiment in which it can greet the everlasting sublimities?
Savonarola addressed himself to the hardest of all earthly tasks, that of making men turn back and wonder at the simplicities they had learnt to ignore.
It is this consideration that lends a certain air of futility even to all the inspired simplicities and thunderous veracities of Tolstoy.
Very frequently things which appear to us ignoble are merely thesimplicities of a pure and truthful age.
The collectors of Gerard Dows and Hobbimas may be passed by with a smile; and the affectations of Walpole and simplicities of Vasari dismissed with contempt or with compassion.
Many a time have we laughed at this circumstance and other cottage simplicities of that day.
Did he want to tear down his carefully built edifice of culture and the habit of conventional life, and run away with Tira to elemental simplicities and sweet deliriums?
His morbidity, his introspection, his irritation with Stephen's simplicities fled from him.
Here was a case where Stephen's simplicities were obviously of little avail.
He could never have been anything but American, if he had tried, and he certainly never tried; but he certainly did not return to the outward simplicities of his life as I first knew it.
And they have brought the intelligence and refinement of the Court without its vanities and vexations; so that the graces of art and the simplicities of nature meet together in joyous, loving sisterhood.
The way small simplicities worked out great devastations.
Where was Robert, the man of large simplicities she believed she had known?
Her mother said her simplicities shewed that she would one day be very intelligent, and her father maintained that they were signs of her stupidity.
These simplicities of hers afforded me great mental pleasure, but I wanted bodily pleasure as well.
At least we do so in recurring to the simplicities of the scriptural style.
Even the simplicities of planetary motions do not escape distortion: nor is it easy to be convinced that the distortion is in the eye which beholds, not in the object beheld.
Gibbie, for his part, full of the holy simplicities of the cottage, had a good many things to meet which disappointed, perplexed, and shocked him.
Loneliness and silence, and constant homely familiarity with the vast simplicities of nature, assist much in the development of the deeper and more wonderful faculties of perception.
But these pictures of primeval simplicitieswhich the landscape evoked were not in accord with a journey toward love and pleasure.
She seemed to see them fading in a pathetic decadence, falling like etiolated flowers, and their holy simplicities seemed merely pathetic.
Obstructions and perplexities which would have driven me mad were simplicitiesto his master mind and furnished him no difficulties.
He did not admit that Wordsworth with his rustic simplicities and his recluse philosophy had solved the problem.
For certainly the strainedsimplicities and trivialities of some of his country ballads, which were what Leigh Hunt and his friends most disliked in Wordsworth's work, could never be called thunders.
We are also to find that before the simplicities of an alphabet are reached; the art of writing in all systems is a series of bewildering complications.
He shouted and shouted over the marvels wrought by his system, and quoted the handsome compliments which had been paid it by famous musical people; but he forgot to tell me what his notation was like, or what its simplicities consisted in.
II An enthusiast who had a new system of musical notation, wrote to me and suggested that a magazine article from me, contrasting the absurdities of the old system with the simplicities of his new one, would be sure to make a "rousing hit.
The collectors of Gerard Dows and Hobbimas may be passed by with a smile; and the affectations of Walpole and simplicities of Vasari[48] dismissed with contempt or with compassion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "simplicities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
