Sentences with phrase «plainness of»

A prospective employer can look way past the plainness of your resume if it has substance.

Besides, given the plainness of the specification and the fact that it was estimated on 55 observations, I think managing to project with 95 % confidence where the temperature levels are going to be at 73 years later, and succeed, is pretty good for a 4 parameter model.

persist to that, the plainness of not having to concern.

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

The plainness of her works, made of simple everyday...

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

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.

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.

I was surprised by the plainness of the church, especially the lack of interior adornments.

Still, the plainness of the artwork isn't a major obstacle to enjoying this opposites - attract story, as the script and the lead characters make a lasting impression.

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.

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.

«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.

Didn't seminary teach you «to use great plainness of speech»?

What many folks seem to encourage jovially are rival bickering between young blooded humanists who banter about incessantly never judging their owned amorous infidelities and always trivializing the bitterness of others» written and even oral wordage... «I am what I am Sam» are the earmarks of standalone infidels who dare not seek the fidelities of devotional humanisms flavored austerities emanating with frugal discourse above the plainness of written and / or spoken dysenteries... «Bite the bullet» antagonists on both young sides might never find frugally endorsed concessions nor open their doors ever so gently...

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.

If aesthetic enjoyment with spiritual lethargy is the peril of the wealthy city church, plainness with lack of spiritual passion is the pitfall of the poor rural church.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

However frightening the subject, they gave it the plainness and impersonality of a mass - media filter.

Their haunting mix of plainness and pretense foretells Modernism.

There is a plainness and directness about all of Dodd's work that the painter and critic Robert Berlind likened to the Shaker love of simplicity.

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

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.

Lack of plainness may come from insufficient time for consideration or deliberate policy choices (not made by the drafters) to leave some questions open.