simplicity

Example Sentences

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Donald Norman anticipated this, warning against designers who would mistake simplicity for good design.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

“But this song came to be from the simplicity of making music between friends. It’s a language, a snapshot. It was a beautiful moment between us.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Great ideas dazzle once and only once—the first time you experience them—and McDonald’s great idea, brilliant in its simplicity, was rock-bottom prices and the assembly-line efficiency that offered exactly nine items, six of them drink.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Fernando Alonso, meanwhile, often finds phrases of elegant simplicity that nail the heart of an issue.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026

It conforms to Alexander Pope’s definition of simplicity as “the mean between ostentation and rusticity.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith