Sentences with word «plainness»

While materially and conceptually intricate, the visual plainness of Ingram's paintings feels emotionally unsatisfying next to the figurative work by Howard and West.

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

Yet Joanna, Salome, Susanna, and the rest have an honest plainness about them, reminding us that Christ did not come to earth just to save Ph.D.'s and investment bankers.

What's noteworthy about her style is its very plainness.

This movie's visual plainness is deceptive, as the picture itself is full of life... extremely uncomfortable life.

Thank you for making this as plainness as possible!

Bauer appropriates late Modernism's appropriations, but not its defiant plainness.

«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.

He liked the American plainness of Columbia, but caroused a great deal there too.

Republican plainness and candor preside, And all kind of precedence here is denied.

This recipe for biscotti is unique in its initial plainness.

The three are good for some anti-buddy comedy in spite of their unavoidable plainness, with Freeman standing out the most.

At other times, she bemoans her physical plainness and the spinsterhood for which she seems destined.

That also goes for how Bateman's Midwestern plainness is juxtaposed with McCarthy's Floridian wildness - without being mean - spirited or over-obvious when it comes to emphasizing that culture clash, that is.

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.

Amid such obviousness, Hawkins's portrayal of Elisa stands out with gemlike beauty, her pie - faced plainness cracking into a radiant pirate's smile that speaks volumes without a word.

It's no Jaguar, but Cherokee and its fancier Wagoneer brother (not to be confused with the Grand Wagoneer) have a tough, sturdy aura that makes plainness appealing.

This is not Edward Hopper, a friend and fellow student at the New York School of Art (along with Rockwell Kent), with the ghostly plainness of modernity.

Compared to the famous Pop works of the later 1960s, the rough plainness of the first black - and - whites comes as a shock.

Yet they have a deliberate plainness, down to centered compositions and unaccented colors, to express that their subjects are just not going away.

Rather than avant - garde rhetoric, what binds past and present members of AAA together is a deep respect for the value of visual experience unencumbered by programs and pretensions, for what one might call the poetry of the plain although in the hands of some AAA adherents, essential plainness achieves extreme states of intricacy or encompasses such exquisite refinement or subtlety that the average viewer might briefly be tempted to mistake it for its opposite.

Critic and curator David Cohen begins an essay on her work by stating that she «represents the transcendental through plainness.»

But there is an obstinate plainness about her treatment of trees, an anti-romanticism that resists all the symbolist baggage of trees.

The apparent plainness of their subjects belies the visual tricks that the artist uses to distort bodies and their spatial relationships, yielding surprisingly weird pictures.

Like Opie, he extends his sympathies by allowing people a defiant plainness.

«Somehow the proximity and plainness of the advantages of prosperity, of peace, and of freedom make us want to exaggerate their advantages and attribute to them a healing of the spirit that they can never bring.

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.»

Beyond the plainness, the lack of any gold was disappointing.

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.

The downside for some is the plainness.

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.

The line of ribbon on the train spruced up its plainness.

Whether it's a fun statement necklace or a statement bag (I decided to go with both) it helps to really add a pop of fun and girly - ness to the outfit which detracts from the plainness of the t - shirt.

But when something is designed well and pared down purposefully, it's plainness or lack of «extras» is what makes it intriguing.

This honesty and plainness of a Russian girl are loved by the men all over the world, whoever prefers frankness over artificial promises of love.

Its plainness permits you to quickly set up your profile, but you should be wary of poor quality and fake profiles.

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!»

There's a plainness to One Floor Below that's refreshing.

I love the plainness of this Acura ZDX and to its decency.

The plainness only highlights the standard - issue feeling of the materials and switches.