Plainness Sentence Examples

His chief aim in writing was plainness and intelligibility, but his want of order and logical precision thwarted his purpose.

The whole is of the most studied plainness.

Its general plainness contrasts with the elaborate carving of the stone canopy which shelters the southern portal.

She had pulled her long auburn hair high on her head, making her appear taller and almost regal in spite of the simple lines of the garment, and the plainness of her features.

The plainness and directness, both of thought and of expression, which characterize Homer were doubtless qualities of his age; but the author of the Iliad (like Voltaire, to whom Arnold happily compares him) must have possessed the national gift in a surpassing degree.

Rapidity or ease of movement, plainness of expression and plainness of thought, these are not the distinguishing qualities of the great epic poets - Virgil, Dante, Milton.

Gross exaggerations, such as those in which Valerius Antias indulged, he roundly denounces, and with equal plainness of speech he condemns the family vanity which had so constantly corrupted and distorted the truth.

The characteristic of the Cistercian abbeys was the extremest simplicity and a studied plainness.

Thus he was in some cases, as in that of St James's, Piccadilly, content to make the exterior of an almost barnlike plainness.

Both sexes dressed with Puritan plainness; husbands and wives quitted their homes for convents; marriage became an awful and scarcely permitted rite; mothers suckled their own babes; and persons of all ranks - nobles, scholars and artists - renounced the world to assume the Dominican robe.

Nor was it oratory alone to which Lysias rendered service; his work had an important effect on all subsequent Greek prose, by showing how perfect elegance could be joined to plainness.

In spite of her age and plainness she had gone through the same process as the Rostovs, but with less flurry – for to her it was a matter of routine.

The sins and shortcomings of the people were dwelt upon with great plainness, faithfulness, and often with unsparing severity.

She was silent, and not only less pretty than at the ball, but only redeemed from plainness by her look of gentle indifference to everything around.

The principal charm of his "Minutes" lies in the amusing details he has to recount about his personages, and in the plainness and truthfulness that he permits himself in face of established reputations.

Helene laughed, "that Dolokhov was my lover," she said in French with her coarse plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other word, "and you believed it!

Princess Mary noticed this and glanced gratefully at him with that radiant look which caused the plainness of her face to be forgotten.

His arguments, which were given with much plainness of speech, appear to have convinced the Chinese government, and war was avoided.