SIMPLICITY in a Sentence

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If simplicity is the goal I would recommend the single non-transferable vote, which is probably the simplest system there is.

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 Meanings and Examples of SIMPLICITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
simplicity
 n.  easiness; plainness; absence of luxury or showiness; lack of good sense or intelligence; foolishness
Classic Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1  Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
3  The witnesses of Hester Prynne's disgrace had not yet passed beyond their simplicity.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
4  Here, indeed, in the sable simplicity that generally characterised the Puritanic modes of dress, there might be an infrequent call for the finer productions of her handiwork.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
5  "But I did mind you, Pip," he returned with tender simplicity.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
6  My lavish habits led his easy nature into expenses that he could not afford, corrupted the simplicity of his life, and disturbed his peace with anxieties and regrets.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIV
7  No wisdom on earth could have given me the comfort that I should have derived from their simplicity and fidelity; but I could never, never, undo what I had done.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
8  As the Doctor turned his kind face, with its smile of simplicity and gentleness, towards her, she drooped her head more.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
9  Traddles thanked us both, by saying, with a simplicity and honesty I had sense enough to be quite charmed with, 'I am very much obliged to you indeed.'
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
10  I could not see him for the tears which his earnestness and goodness, so adorned by, and so adorning, the perfect simplicity of his manner, brought into my eyes.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
11  No one knew better than Stepan Arkadyevitch how to hit on the exact line between freedom, simplicity, and official stiffness necessary for the agreeable conduct of business.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
12  This was Princess Myakaya, noted for her simplicity and the roughness of her manners, and nicknamed enfant terrible.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6
13  No," he said to himself, "however good that life of simplicity and toil may be, I cannot go back to it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 12
14  But his simplicity, particularly in conjunction with his good looks, his amiable smile, and the grace of his movements, was very attractive.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 8
15  She knew what it meant, and the price at which such simplicity was obtained.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 19
Example Sentence:
1  Mona wrote with a beautiful simplicity of style.
2  In a complex world,to insist upon simplicity is foolish.
3  Programming the video is simplicity itself.
4  There are three major advantagesof the design, viz / namely cheapness, simplicity and availability.
5  For the sake of simplicity, let's divide the discussion into two parts.
6  The advantage of the idea was its simplicity.
7  I prefer the second option - its advantages are simplicity and cheapness.
8  Modern architecture has discarded the flamboyant trimming on buildings and emphasizes simplicity of line.
9  What to Watson had been a knotty problem, to Sherlock Holmes was simplicity itself.
10  Next to his spontaneity is his rare simplicity, his gift of speaking straight from a heart that never grew old.
11  By her simplicity, gay prattle, and efforts to please, inspired me, in return, with a degree of attachment sufficient to make us both content in each other's society.
12  If simplicity is the goal I would recommend the single non-transferable vote, which is probably the simplest system there is.