Sentences with phrase «in plainness»

The body should be well - designed in its plainness.

Scott explained, «I find beauty in plainness, in a conception that is precise».

Here Minimalism and Pop Art in their plainness were fraternal twins.

The second minor complaint might seem a bit nitpicky, but I'm a little disappointed in the plainness of the Xbox One X's design.

The church was old and almost Protestant in its plainness, for these rural Wisconsin Catholics eyed all things magnificent with deep suspicion.

Not exact matches

«Economists have attempted to quantify the «beauty bump,» or the «plainness penalty,» in a variety of occupations,» Rhode says.

Sometimes called Plainness, this is basically humility in action, and an effort to place God at the center of living.

The weakness and humility of the people, even their plainness, ordinariness and self - effacement, are the fertile soil in which things like love, generosity, and wisdom grow.»

It is not so easy a matter to perform this task aright; to stand in the presence of God and to speak in his name, with that plainness and simplicity, that seriousness and gravity, that zeal and concern, which the business requires; to accommodate ourselves to the capacity of the common people without disgusting our more knowing hearers by the insipid flatness of our discourse; to excite and awaken drowsy souls, without terrifying and disturbing more tender consciences; to bear home the convictions of sin, without the appearance of some personal reflection; in a word, to approve ourselves unto God as workmen that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.21

In this beauty - and youth - obsessed society, however, there are many who can't resist commenting on the «plainness» of these two women, especially the wronged woman of the hour, Holly.

I find I like them to have a balance of plainness, such that the jewelry can be quickly discerned and picked out, and luxury, such that they are in themselves objects of beauty, but they may be any material, ** and a range of sizes can serve.

All of which means that underneath the plainness of True Grit are currents of satire and the wryest sense of extratextual irony — its major departures from the source material (speaking of the novel, not of the novel John Wayne film) are almost exclusively in the reductions of its male icons in favour of the plucky little girl.

Now Emily becomes more involved in her angst over her eternal soul or self - castigation over her plainness and unlovability, which results in to and fro that not only doesn't sparkle, it makes no real sense, as when she huffily announces that «Familiarity breeds contempt» to which Vinny fires back «Perhaps contempt breeds familiarity!»

Based on research and interviews by the screenwriter Paul Laverty, this movie tells the fictional story of Daniel Blake, a middle - aged widower in the North East who can't work or get benefits after a near - fatal heart attack, and the story is told with stark and fierce plainness: unadorned, unapologetic, even unevolved.

I was an accessory only in the sense that in my very plainness I signified admirable maternal restraint, it being considered bad taste - in the circles to which my mother aspired - to dress your daughter like a little whore.

At the same time, its plainness, damaged concrete floors, and warehouse interiors fit right in for now with its disappearing industrial neighbors.

What we have now is a tedious, repetitive, unoriginal body of dogma — clarity, sincerity, plainness, duty — tarted up every week in a new, disposable paperback dress.