Simple-minded Sentence Examples

No site, no legend, is too impossible for the unquestioning faith of these simple-minded men and women.

The pure morality and simple-minded piety of this community seem early to have attracted Spinoza, and to have won his unfeigned respect.

The other attitude, however, is that into which simple-minded Latin peasants actually lapse, as it is also that which characterizes other religions ancient or modern which use pictures or sculptures of gods, demons, men, brutes, or of particular parts and organs of the same.

Figures of the Virgin and Child, of the apostles and evangelists, the fathers of the Church, the saints and martyrs, with illustrations of sacred history and the Apocalypse, were supplied in endless repetition to satisfy the cravings of a pious and simple-minded people.

Personally Livingstone was a pure and tender-hearted man, full of humanity and sympathy, simple-minded as a child.

And we are touched to think of the simple-minded guest secretly praying, in the solitude of his room in the fine house at Beaconsfield, that the way of his anxious and overburdened host might be guided by a divine hand.

But, being assured of his life, he surrendered, was brought to London, and was only executed two years later, when, being imprisoned near the earl of Warwick in the Tower, he inveigled that simple-minded youth into a project of escape.

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Aristotle speaks of him as uneducated and simple-minded, and Plato describes him as struggling in vain with the difficulties of dialectic. His work represents one great aspect of Socratic philosophy, and should be compared with the Cyrenaic and Megarian doctrines.

Rich in years and in honours, but simple-minded and affectionate as a child, this great benefactor to his species passed quietly away near St Cloud on the 28th of September 1895.

Pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbe about the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young man's simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory.

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Yet in doing so he adopts no simple-minded view of what constitutes boundaries or their recognition.

The person in charge of training these candidates was very much worried about the newly recruited simple-minded man.

This is why we should not be intimidated by simple-minded slogans from California.

The EU - a simple-minded naive notion which can only be a disaster for everything that 's good about each member country.

Michel lived in the village and was thought by the locals to be rather simple-minded but they were missing the point.

They are not the evil face of organized religion, just those too simple-minded to avoid being drawn into it.

She was a simple-minded woman who poisoned her husband with arsenic in November 1846.

And having the god thus at hand and imprisoned in matter, the simple-minded worshipper can punish him if his prayers are left unanswered.