simplehearted

In London the best of the revue artists take part, but panto-purists complain that the old fairy tales and the old simplehearted clowning are ever more laggingly interrupted by variety turns of performing dogs, conjurers, acrobats and midgets.

Audiences howl at such simplehearted reminders of the days when screen comedy was really crude and sometimes brilliant.

Appreciation of the "modern primitives" began in France in the 1890s with the discovery of Henri Rousseau, a mustachioed, simplehearted customs officer who painted streets and landscapes, real & imaginary, with a mystical precision which a few artists like Gauguin had the wit to envy.

Archer had made her understand this, as he was bound to do; he had also made her understand that simplehearted kindly New York, on whose larger charity she had apparently counted, was precisely the place where she could least hope for indulgence.

It was Jo, the clean-minded and simplehearted, in revolt against the cloying luxury with which he had surrounded himself.