simplisme

• Back again for a moment to a culturally rich, bathed in literature and opera, non-simplisme culture like 1940s Germany: I also asked my father what would happen if the Gestapo came for us one night. —  Eject Eject Eject
• When Europeans call us simplisme, they show themselves incapable of recognizing the difference between intelligence, of which we are amply endowed, and intellectualism, that circle-jerk of coffee table revolution and basement politburo planning that we have never had much patience with. —  Eject Eject Eject
• On the contrary, simplisme is now deforming the greatest germs in the drama and romance. —  Delsarte System of Oratory
• But lost in the life-giving beauty of a summer's night or a glorious sunset, we are tempted to cry out with the poet Nothing is beautiful but the True What can be said of the other simplisme which, in its search for the True, ignores the Beautiful while it disregards the Good? —  Delsarte System of Oratory
• Standard "dark America" simplisme. —  E-nough!

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