"There was also a simplemindedness that couldn't see big problems."

Of his prerequisites for the perfect wife, the priority is simplemindedness.

His mother often surprised him with her simplemindedness.

His main virtue is less grand -simplicity without simplemindedness.

Simplicity is never really simple to achieve and is easily mistaken for simplemindedness.

The officers exchanged a glance that silently rebuked her simplemindedness.

They mistake simplicity, and simplemindedness, for the truth.

You had to love its elegant simplemindedness.

Sister Georgia spread her hands again, feigning simplemindedness.

Quietly suffering, to the point of simplemindedness.

Apparently he knew about the soldier's simplemindedness.

This must be what it's like to be laundry in the basket, she thought, and then chided herself for such simplemindedness.

The comic-book simplemindedness of this particular pop-art carries eerie undertones.

My simplemindedness serves her well.

But in Billy Budd intelligence, such as it was, had advanced, while yet his simplemindedness remained for the most part unaffected.

They object to what they see as his simplemindedness and his doglike devotion to Frodo.

Monotony, simplemindedness, obsession and gimmickry periodically threaten, but they never quite prevail, at least on an image-by-image basis.

The material represented the directness, simplemindedness and repetitive beat of rock and roll before it poetic messages and radical political statements.

Implicitly-sometimes quite explicitly-the devil-words "religious right" connote irrationality, inflexibility, simplemindedness, and judgmentalism.

Or simply as a bubbling chuckle, an exuberance of life, perhaps even a joyous rebellion against the grimness and the simplemindedness of the hunting magic?

"Wilkes coldly and successfully exploited the simplemindedness of one of this country's war heroes, now a tortured shadow of his former self," prosecutors wrote.

From the corner of her eye, Troi thought she glimpsed a sly, gloating look on Avren's face, an expression completely at odds with the shepherd's supposed simplemindedness.

Ironhand,' whispered the King, gripping her hands tightly, and remembering how the Candleman had, for all his simplemindedness, been his first true friend against the darkness. '

She was a Japanese homemaker immersed in the simplemindedness of Forrest Gump or a French businessman flipping skeptically through the pages of how-to-succeed manuals.

He rejects the melodrama (he does not call it that) of heroic artist and foul villain censor because it is simpleminded, and like all simplemindedness leads back toward censorship.